buffalo是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水牛； 水陆坦克，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：
-- Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
-- Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings of the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking of that buffalo robe to the frightened colt!
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- Though so short a period ago not a good lifetime the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They originated in the slopes of the Buffalo Ranges, a chain of mountains of moderate height, the undulating line of which was visible on the horizon.
-- It occupied a long wide space of five leagues in extent, lying between the Buffalo Ranges and Mount Hottam.
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：
-- 'When an Indian chief comes among his white fathers,' returned Duncan, with great steadiness, 'he lays aside his buffalo robe, to carry the shirt that is offered him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They knew what the business was before them the terri-ble charge of the buffalo herd against which no tiger can hope to stand.
-- The chil-dren had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Buldeo went out angrily, only too anxious to correct Mowg-li for not taking better care of the herd.
-- The old Tower musket went off with a bang, and a young buffalo bellowed in pain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About twelve o'clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the track.
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