altitude是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (海拔) 高度，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to cal-culate successfully.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he possessed the power to arrest any wandering eye when exhibiting the glories of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still more likely to attract attention.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It contained 50,000 cubic feet of gas, and, thanks to its capacity, it could maintain itself a long time in the air, although it should reach a great altitude or might be thrown into a horizontal position.
-- There only remained here and there a few twisted, stunted pines, which must have had a hard life in resisting at this altitude the high winds from the open sea.
-- Seen from this height, the lake appeared to be on the same level as the ocean, but, on reflection, the engineer explained to his companions that the altitude of this little sheet of water must be about three hundred feet, because the plateau, which was its basin, was but a prolongation of the coast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some are known to you, such as the thermometer, which gives the internal temperature of the Nautilus; the barometer, which indicates the weight of the air and foretells the changes of the weather; the hygrometer, which marks the dryness of the atmosphere; the storm-glass, the contents of which, by decomposing, announce the approach of tempests; the compass, which guides my course; the sextant, which shows the latitude by the altitude of the sun; chronometers, by which I calculate the longitude; and glasses for day and night, which I use to examine the points of the horizon, when the Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves."
-- Captain Nemo, by the help of his sextant, took the altitude of the sun, which ought also to give the latitude.
-- That day, the 24th of January, 1868, at noon, the second officer came to take the altitude of the sun.
-- "You are right, M. Aronnax," said he; "if to-morrow I cannot take the altitude of the sun, I shall not be able to do it for six months.
-- Captain Nemo took the sun's altitude as he had done the day before.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calcu-lation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At twelve o'clock exactly, when the sun had attained its highest altitude for the day, the shadow fell upon the edge of the central pit!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he strolled back to his hotel afterwards, he carried his head high: having plainly got up his castle now to a much loftier altitude than the two square towers of Notre Dame.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From their arrow-slit in the skull, the priests perceived me taking the altitude of the final rib, "How now!"
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