cruise是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 巡航; 以节省燃料的速度前进; n. 乘船巡游,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
-- And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale had been brought alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day, if opportunity offered.
-- In 1819, the same house fitted out a discovery whale ship of their own, to go on a tasting cruise to the remote waters of Japan.
-- Now, as those polar fisheries could only be prosecuted in the short summer of that climate, so that the whole cruise of one of these Dutch whalemen, including the short voyage to and from the Spitzbergen sea, did not much exceed three months, say, and reckoning 30 men to each of their fleet of 180 sail, we have 5,400 Low Dutch seamen in all; therefore, I say, we have precisely two barrels of beer per man, for a twelve weeks' allowance, exclusive of his fair proportion of that 550 ankers of gin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Then the DUNCAN is to cruise between Corrientes and Cape Saint Antonie," said John Mangles.
-- This effected, they would proceed to cruise along the eastern coast to complete their search for the BRITANNIA.
-- "It contained orders to leave Melbourne without delay, and go and cruise on the eastern coast of—""Australia!"
-- "Now, then, old Austin," said Glenarvan, "tell me, didn't it strike you as strange to be ordered to go and cruise on the coast of New Zealand?"
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I had a boat, my next design was to make a cruise round the island; for as I had been on the other side in one place, crossing, as I have already described it, over the land, so the discoveries I made in that little journey made me very eager to see other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I thought of noth-ing but sailing round the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 22The remainder of that day and the whole of the next were a busy time for the Nubbles family, to whom everything connected with Kit's outfit and departure was matter of as great moment as if he had been about to penetrate into the interior of Africa, or to take a cruise round the world.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
-- 24 The Cruise of the CoracleT was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island.
-- You say this cruise is bungled.
-- Well, to make a long story short, we got a few hands on board, made a good cruise home, and the Hispaniola reached Bristol just as Mr. Blandly was beginning to think of fitting out her consort.
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