coal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 煤， 煤块，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：
-- "Yes, your honor, I took in an ample store at Talcahuano, and, besides, we can easily replenish our stock of coal at Cape Town."
-- This very year the Government threatened to withdraw its subsidy from the Peninsular Company if their vessels continued to take in coal in those western parts of Australia where convicts are admitted.
-- John examined the coal bunkers, and found there was only enough to last fifteen days longer at the outside.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is almost as invisible as a jet of coal gas or hydrogen is in air.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- coal and sulphur for powder, mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate, and lead for the shot, and the captain will make us first-rate guns."
-- This reduction is made by subjecting the ore with coal to a high temperature, either by the rapid and easy Catalan method, which has the advantage of transforming the ore into iron in a single operation, or by the blast furnace, which first smelts the ore, then changes it into iron, by carrying away the three to four per cent.
-- Not far from this vein was the vein of coal already made use of by the settlers.
-- This is the cause of the wealth of the mines in Great Britain, where the coal aids the manufacture of the metal extracted from the same soil at the same time as itself.
-- The engineer had decided, as has been said, to operate near the veins both of coal and ore. Now, according to his observations, these veins were situated at the foot of the northeast spurs of Mount Franklin, that is to say, a distance of six miles from their home.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But," said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, "if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No defects to be afraid of, for the double shell is as firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind to carry away; no boilers to burst; no fire to fear, for the vessel is made of iron, not of wood; no coal to run short, for electricity is the only mechanical agent; no collision to fear, for it alone swims in deep water; no tempest to brave, for when it dives below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity.
-- Conseil brought a dozen to Ned Land, who placed them on a coal fire, after having cut them in thick slices, and while doing this repeating:"You will see, master, how good this bread is.
-- "No, sir; but it wants electricity to make it move, and the wherewithal to make the electricity sodium to feed the elements, coal from which to get the sodium, and a coal-mine to supply the coal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you can produce coal to cook five thousand dinners a day, you are five thousand times more important than if you cooked only your own dinner."
-- Getting so many more thousands of tons of coal out of the earth every day.
-- And when we've got all the coal we want, and all the plush furniture, and pianofortes, and the rabbits are all stewed and eaten, and we're all warm and our bellies are filled and we're listening to the young lady performing on the pianoforte what then?
-- "So while you get the coal I must chase the rabbit?"
-- It was true that the panting and rattling of the coal mines could always be heard at Shortlands.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dine between twelve and one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture along with the house, could not, or would not, comprehend my request that I might be served at five) on mounting the stairs with this lazy intention, and stepping into the room, I saw a servant girl on her knees surrounded by brushes and coal scuttles, and raising an infernal dust as she extinguished the flames with heaps of cinders.
-- He hailed me to follow him, and, after marching through a wash house, and a paved area containing a coal shed, pump, and pigeon cot, we at length arrived in the huge, warm, cheerful apartment where I was formerly received.
-- The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect.
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