central是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 中心的， 中央的， 中枢的； 主要的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what will M. de Quatre-fages, the President of the Central Commission, say?
-- In the steppes of Siberia, in the plains of Central Asia, in the deserts of Africa, in the prairies of America, in the immense wilds of Australia, in the icy solitudes of the Poles, man scarcely dares to venture; the most daring shrinks back, the most courageous succumbs.
-- The ground vibrates from the agitation of the central furnace.
-- The body was laid on a small mound in the central enclosure.
-- They knew that the central region of the Ika-na-Mani is essentially volcanic.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever.
-- >From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
-- Then we gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass, the oak panelling, the stags' heads, the coats-of-arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp.
-- From this central point two long corridors extended the whole length of the build-ing, from which all the bedrooms opened.
-- These rooms appeared to be much more modern than the central part of the house, and the bright paper and numer-ous candles did something to remove the sombre impression which our arrival had left upon my mind.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Close to an estate of Totski's, in one of the central provinces of Russia, there lived, at that time, a poor gentleman whose estate was of the wretchedest description.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it sounded really more like a Central African jungle than an English village.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a narrow dry trough under the lee of the wall, where he walked up and down among the waits of straw and dust and paper, the waste droppings of the pump, and the stray leaves of yesterday's greens.
-- There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; bits of mummy from Egypt (and perhaps Birmingham); model gondolas from Venice; model villages from Switzerland; morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of Vesuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slippers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarves, Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cameos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round you enter the public room.
-- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.
-- Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides through the green of the groves why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?
-- In the central blinds of bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings.
-- And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the central portion was the vast wholesale and shopping district, to which the uninformed seeker for work usually drifted.
-- "Did you notice," he said, at last, breaking forth concerning another item which he had found, "that they have entered suit to compel the Illinois Central to get off the lake front, Julia?"
-- Before he had reached the central portion of the city he thought the whole matter over and decided it would be useless.
-- "Give me 1643," he called to Central, after looking up the Michigan Central depot number.
-- "Michigan Central depot," he said, standing up and speaking so low that Carrie could not hear, "as fast as you can go."
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