atmosphere是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大气(层) ； 空气； 气氛， 环境； 大气压，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：
-- She made rapid progress, and passed the Tropic of Cancer on the second of September at 5 A. M.The weather now began to change, and the atmosphere became damp and heavy.
-- The weather was splendid when they started, the sky a deep cloudless blue, and yet the atmosphere so tempered by the sea breezes as to prevent any feeling of oppressive heat.
-- Here and there peaks of porphyry or basalt pierced through the white winding-sheet like the bones of a skeleton; and at intervals fragments of quartz or gneiss, loosened by the action of the air, fell down with a faint, dull sound, which in a denser atmosphere would have been almost imperceptible.
-- The rarefaction of the atmosphere produced that painful oppression known by the name of PUNA.
-- The atmosphere was pure and calm.
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：
-- It is a singular thing, but I find that a concentrated atmosphere helps a concentration of thought.
-- Already round this pale-faced, handsome, black-bearded man there was gathering an atmosphere of mystery and of gloom.
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 stifling atmosphere foretold a storm, and the prince felt a certain charm in the contemplative mood which possessed him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a comfortable room, though the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses bloomed in the win-dows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home peace pervaded it.
-- The atmosphere of the whole house being summerlike, Laurie led the way from room to room, letting Jo stop to ex-amine whatever struck her fancy.
-- But it is, as she presently discovered, for her spirits began to rise, and her table to blossom under her skillful hands, the girls were very kind, and that one lit-tle act seemed to have cleared the atmosphere amazingly.
-- Bless you all!Ever your lov-ing... JoCHAPTER THIRTY-FOURThough very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily work that earned her bread and made it sweeter for the effort, Jo still found time for literary labors.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
-- The unflinching earnestness with which he declared these things; the dark, daring play of his sleepless, excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness.
-- While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head.
-- Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, this host of vapory spouts, individually curling up into the air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins.
-- The fog was much heavier than it had been in the early part of the night; and the atmosphere was so damp, that, although no rain fell, Oliver's hair and eyebrows, within a few minutes after leaving the house, had become stiff with the half-frozen moisture that was floating about.
-- Catching up the light, they made the best of their way home, at a good round trot; and long after their dusky forms had ceased to be discernible, the light might have been seen twinkling and dancing in the distance, like some exhalation of the damp and gloomy atmosphere through which it was swiftly borne.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie realised the change of affectional atmosphere at once.
-- She read from the manner of Hanson, in the subdued air of Minnie, and, indeed, the whole atmosphere of the flat, a settled opposition to anything save a conservative round of toil.
-- Indeed, it affected the entire atmosphere of the flat, as such things are inclined to do, and gave to his wife's mind its subdued and tactful turn, anxious to avoid taciturn replies.
-- At her suggestion of going to the theatre, the unspoken shade of disapproval to the doing of those things which involved the expenditure of money--shades of feeling which arose in the mind of Hanson and then in Minnie-- slightly affected the atmosphere of the table.
-- The washrooms were disagreeable, crude, if not foul places, and the whole atmosphere was sordid.
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