opal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蛋白石，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Pickerbaugh sighed: "I suppose it would be dreadfully conventional to call them My Jewels--I do so hate these conventional phrases that everybody uses, don't you?--but that's what they really are to their mother, and the Doctor and I have sometimes wished-- Of course when we'd started giving them floral names we had to keep it up, but if we'd started with jewels, just think of all the darling names we might have used, like Agate and Cameo and Sardonyx and Beryl and Topaz and Opal and Esmeralda and Chrysoprase--it IS Chrysoprase, isn't it, not Chrysalis?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But we were bound to walk, so we went on, whilst above our heads waved medusae whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band of blue, sheltered us from the rays of the sun and fiery pelagiae, which, in the darkness, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent light.
-- Here and there were opal shades of wonderful softness, running through bright spots like diamonds of fire, the brilliancy of which the eye could not bear.
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