apparatus是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 仪器, 设备,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:
-- As to the armadillo, he carries his cooking apparatus with him, and all that had to be done was to place him in his own shell over the glowing embers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He also gave them to understand that the cooking apparatus roasted a fine piece of sirloin of beef, weighing about six pounds avoir-dupoise, in two minutes and a quarter, as he had himself witnessed, and proved by his sense of taste; and further, that, however the effect was produced, he had distinctly seen water boil and bubble up when the single gentleman winked; from which facts he (Mr Swiveller) was led to infer that the lodger was some great conjuror or chemist, or both, whose residence under that roof could not fail at some future days to shed a great credit and distinction on the name of Brass, and add a new interest to the history of Bevis Marks.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And my baggage contains apparatus and appliances."
-- I tried to keep between him and the concentrating apparatus I had arranged, and that only made him more curious.
-- "It was only by a frantic effort of will that I dragged myself back to the apparatus and completed the process.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But at eight he was too busy studying the lacrimal apparatus to think of ladies' eyes.
-- All the high-class supplies which distinguish the Leaders of the Profession from the Dubs are within YOUR reach right NOW by the famous New Idea Financial System: "Just a little down and the rest FREE--out of the increased earnings which New Idea apparatus will bring you!"
-- He talked of going on his own, independent of Martin and McGurk, but he was won back when the Trustees murmured that though they really did wish the dear man wouldn't fool with sera, they would provide him with apparatus to kill all the rats he wanted.
-- Before noon he had gone to the Institute, resigned, taken certain of his own apparatus and notes and books and materials, refused to answer a telephone call from Joyce, and caught a train for Vermont.
-- His mathematics and physical chemistry were now as sound as Terry's, his indifference to publicity and to flowery hangings as great, his industry as fanatical, his ingenuity in devising new apparatus at least comparable, and his imagination far more swift.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The apparatus in the air is like a balance of mathematical precision.
-- He took Herbert to some distance from the nests, and there prepared his singular apparatus with all the care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used.
-- And he showed the apparatus which served for a burning-glass.
-- Now this beginning of which the engineer spoke was the construction of an apparatus which would serve to transform the natural substances.
-- If the engineer had possessed a sextant, an apparatus with which the angular distance of objects can be measured with great precision, there would have been no difficulty in the operation.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and in-dulged them till it was necessary to do as the others did, and collect round the strawberry-beds. The whole party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was ex-pected every moment from Richmond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very ready to lead the way in gathering, ac-cepting, or talking strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or spoken of. 'The best fruit in Eng-land every body's favourite always wholesome. These the finest beds and finest sorts. Delightful to gather for one's self the only way of really enjoying them. Morning decidedly the best time never tired every sort good hautboy infinitely superior no comparison the others hardly eatable hautboys very scarce Chili preferred white wood finest flavour of all price of strawberries inLondon abundance about Bristol Maple Grove cul-tivation beds when to be renewed gardeners thinking exactly different no general rule gardeners never to be put out of their way delicious fruit only too rich to be eaten much of inferior to cherries currants more re-freshing only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping glaring sun tired to death could bear it no longer must go and sit in the shade.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Henry saw this, and had removed all my apparatus from my view.
-- But I was doomed to live and in two months found my-self as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a 217wretched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the apparatus is in action, the gas becomes luminous, and produces a white and continued light.
-- In 1864 he won the quinquennial French prize of 脗拢2,000 for this ingenious application of electricity--A voltaic battery, so called from Volta, its designer, is an apparatus consisting of a series of metal plates arranged in pairs and subjected to the action of saline solutions for producing currents of electricity.
-- To make up the exact list of our traveling gear--for the guidance of future travelers--add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with all apparatus necessary for wounds, fractures and blows; lint, scissors, lancets--in fact, a perfect collection of horrible looking instruments; a number of vials containing ammonia, alcohol, ether, Goulard water, aromatic vinegar, in fact, every possible and impossible drug--finally, all the materials for working the Ruhmkorff coil!
-- Hans had, with considerable ingenuity, contrived a rudder, which enabled him to guide the floating apparatus with ease.
-- Nature in its infinite wisdom had gifted this wondrous marine animal with an optical apparatus of extreme power, capable of resisting the pressure of the heavy layers of water which rolled over him in the depths of the ocean where he usually fed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.
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