gallon是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 加仑,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the village.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will yield you one good gallon of good oil.
-- For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles!not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But this was not all; for now I not only had goat's flesh to feed on when I pleased, but milk too - a thing which, indeed, in the beginning, I did not so much as think of, and which, when it came into my thoughts, was really an agreeable sur-prise, for now I set up my dairy, and had sometimes a gallon or two of milk in a day.
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