earthquake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地震，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：
-- "Yes, but no more will go; the last earthquake has made the route impassable."
-- The trembling had ceased, though there was little doubt the forces below the surface were carrying on their devastating work further on, for shocks of earthquake are always occurring in some part or other of the Andes.
-- Then the procession wound slowly down the mountain, and henceforth none dare ascend the slope of Maunganamu on pain of death, for it was "tabooed," like Tongariro, where lie the ashes of a chief killed by an earthquake in 1846.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no means of turning him out; nothing short of an earthquake would have removed him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there is a certain huge cavern in the depths of the sea midway between Tenedos and rocky Imbrus; here Nep-tune lord of the earthquake stayed his horses, unyoked them, and set before them their ambrosial forage.
-- Meanwhile earth-encircling Neptune lord of the earthquake cheered on the Argives, for he had come up out of the sea and had assumed the form and voice of Calchas.
-- As he spoke the earth-encircling lord of the earthquake struck both of them with his sceptre and filled their hearts with daring.
-- Then, as the soaring falcon poises on the wing high above some sheer rock, and presently swoops down to chase some bird over the plain, even so did Nep-tune lord of the earthquake wing his flight into the air and leave them.
-- Tears began falling from their eyes as they beheld them, for they made sure that they should not escape destruction; but the lord of the earthquake passed lightly about among them and urged their battalions to the front.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and then a faint quiver of earthquake would be sen-sible, and sometimes the ascent of the spire of smoke would be rendered tumultuous by gusts of steam; but that was all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was such an early day that itcame soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and halfafraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other greatconvulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.
-- 513When I got to the office, and, shutting out old Tiffey and the rest ofthem with my hands, sat at my desk, in my own particular nook,thinking of this earthquake that had taken place so unexpectedly,and in the bitterness of my spirit cursing Jip, I fell into such a stateof torment about Dora, that I wonder I did not take up my hat andrush insanely to Norwood.
-- So, here was another earthquake of which I 547became the sport, before I had recovered from the shock of itspredecessor!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Times had been when the farmer had exclaimed against all such niceties as childish, but now no philosophic or hasty rebuke whatever was provoked by this man for attaching as much importance to a crease in the coat as to an earthquake in South America.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The explosion had caused a kind of earthquake in this soil, broken by fissures and rents.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible push from astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge; the sail collapsed and exploded; a gush of scalding vapor shot up near by; something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us.
-- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this while I sat upon the ground very much terrified and dejected; when on a sudden it came into my thoughts, that these winds and rain being the consequences of the earthquake, the earthquake itself was spent and over, and I might venture into my cave again.
-- After I had been in my cave for some time, and found still no more shocks of the earthquake follow, I began to be more composed.
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