whale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 鲸； 庞然大物，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：
-- The southern island was called Tavai-Pouna-Mou, "the whale that yields the green-stones."
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Killer Whale himself could not have cut them up worse.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's been telling me what a whale of a lot of neurology and all that mind-reading stuff he knows.
-- may not have a lot of letters after his name, but he sees a slew of mysterious things that he can't explain, and I swear I believe most of these damn' alleged scientists could learn a whale of a lot from the plain country practitioners, let me tell you!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let us give them names, as the Robinsons did, whose story Herbert has often read to me; Providence Bay, Whale Point, Cape Disappointment!"
-- This was a whale of the largest size, which apparently belonged to the southern species, called the "Cape Whale."
-- "I am astonished," said the reporter, "to see a whale in this comparatively high latitude."
-- "We are exactly in that part of the Pacific which English and American whalemen call the whale field, and it is here, between New Zealand and South America, that the whales of the Southern Hemisphere are met with in the greatest numbers."
-- Now it happened that this whale appeared to have no wish to leave the waters of the island.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed in a superior degree, and it must be a cunning whale to escape the stroke of his harpoon.
-- But one of them, the captain of the Monroe, knowing that Ned Land had shipped on board the Abraham Lincoln, begged for his help in chasing a whale they had in sight.
-- Now leaning on the netting of the forecastle, now on the taffrail, I devoured with eagerness the soft foam which whitened the sea as far as the eye could reach; and how often have I shared the emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious whale raised its black back above the waves!The poop of the vessel was crowded on a moment.
-- thought I, "a whale with the strength of a cavalry regiment would be a pretty whale!"
-- The harpoon used for striking the whale is generally attached to a very long cord which runs out rapidly as the wounded creature draws it after him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, now and then they take a whale that happens to be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has by some authors truly been called the whale of the saurian race, for it is as big and quick in its motions as our king of the seas.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
-- Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833.
-- "In black distress, I called my God,When I could scarce believe him mine,He bowed his ear to my complaints No more the whale did me confine.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.
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