olive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 橄榄， 橄榄树，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：
-- They were Ando-Peruvians, of an olive tint, of medium stature and massive form, with a low forehead, almost circular face, thin lips, high cheekbones, effeminate features, and cold expression.
-- They were fine specimens of the native races, which had been almost entirely swept away in 1833 by General Rosas, tall in stature, with arched forehead and olive complexion.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with gi-ant boulders.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general had turned up in the bosom of his family two or three days before, but not, as usual, with the olive branch of peace in his hand, not in the garb of penitence in which he was usually clad on such occasions but, on the contrary, in an uncommonly bad temper.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pisander then seized the bronze battle-axe, with its long and polished handle of olive wood that hung by his side under his shield, and the two made at one another.
-- She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with am-brosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself if it were so much as shaken in the bronze-floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth.
-- As one who has grown a fine young olive tree in a clear space where there is abun-dance of water the plant is full of promise, and though the winds beat upon it from every quarter it puts forth its white blossoms till the blasts of some fierce hurricane sweep down upon it and level it with the ground even so did Menelaus strip the fair youth Euphorbus of his armour after he had slain him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, my dear, so you took the olive branch?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Goriot appeared for the first time in this condition, an exclamation of astonishment broke from his hostess at the color of his hair--a dingy olive gray.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is simply an olive porphyry, genus olive, order of the pectinibranchidae, class of gasteropods, sub-class mollusca."
-- "Yes, Conseil; but, instead of being rolled from right to left, this olive turns from left to right."
-- Yes!the open sea, with but a few scattered pieces of ice and moving icebergs a long stretch of sea; a world of birds in the air, and myriads of fishes under those waters, which varied from intense blue to olive green, according to the bottom.
-- As to the molluscs, they consisted of some I had already observed turritellas, olive porphyras, with regular lines intercrossed, with red spots standing out plainly against the flesh; odd pteroceras, like petrified scorpions; translucid hyaleas, argonauts, cuttle-fish (excellent eating), and certain species of calmars that naturalists of antiquity have classed amongst the flying-fish, and that serve principally for bait for cod-fishing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While we were all giving way to the delights of new-found pleasures, a little child appeared between two tufted olive trees.
-- "Stromboli," replied the rickety little shepherd, dashing away from Hans and disappearing in the olive groves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Olive was reading a book about the future, when babies would be bred in bottles, and women would be 'immu-nized'.
-- 'Connie says people like wisps of smoke, and Olive says immunized women, and babies in bottles, and Dukes says the phallus is the bridge to what comes next.
-- Anyhow everything was terribly silly, and she was exas-peratedly bored by it all, by Clifford, by Aunt Eva, by Olive and Jack, and Winterslow, and even by Dukes.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.
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