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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I can understand your rising to the surface; but, diving below the surface, does not your submarine contrivance encounter a pressure, and consequently undergo an upward thrust of one atmosphere for every thirty feet of water, just about fifteen pounds per square inch?"
-- Indeed, after the most recent calculations this reduction is only .000436 of an atmosphere for each thirty feet of depth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And she loathed it, the sordid, too-familiar place!She was afraid at the depth of her feeling against the home, the milieu, the whole atmosphere and condition of this obsolete life.
-- The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth.
-- Gerald went through the push doors into the large, lofty room where the faces and heads of the drinkers showed dimly through the haze of smoke, reflected more dimly, and repeated ad infinitum in the great mirrors on the walls, so that one seemed to enter a vague, dim world of shadowy drinkers humming within an atmosphere of blue tobacco smoke.
-- At once the atmosphere of the House of Commons made itself felt over the lawn: the Home Secretary had said such and such a thing, and he, Roddice, on the other hand, thought such and such a thing, and had said so-and-so to the PM.
-- It seemed to envelop Gudrun in a labourer's caress, there was in the whole atmosphere a resonance of physical men, a glamorous thickness of labour and maleness, surcharged in the air.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dis mal spiritual atmosphere overcame, and more than neutralised, the glowing physical comforts round me; and I resolved to be cautious how I ventured under those rafters a third time.
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