tyre是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 轮胎，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The end hairs of a horse's tail touch the tyre of the wheel, and there is never much space between wheel and horse when the chariot is going; Menelaus was no fur-ther than this behind Antilochus, though at first he had been a full disc's throw behind him.
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