Japan是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 日本, 日本国,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:
-- The land is hundreds of leagues away, and locked Japan the nearest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One day he published a celebrated map of America, and put Japan in it!But for all that, he is distinguished for his learning, and he is one of the best geographers in France."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The ves-sel was an English merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of 93Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- There is indeed a perpetual commerce between this king-dom and the great empire of Japan; and it is very probable, that the Japanese authors may have given some account of the struldbrugs; but my stay in Japan was so short, and I was so entirely a stranger to the language, that I was not qualified to make any inquiries.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The coast of Japan still remained less than two hundred miles to leeward.
-- On 2nd January we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan Seas.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the 6th of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await for a week the sailing of the next steamer.
-- He helped himself as generously as if Japan were a desert, where nothing to eat was to be looked for.
-- Priests were passing in processions, beating their dreary tambourines; police and custom-house officers with pointed hats encrusted with lac and carrying two sabres hung to their waists; soldiers, clad in blue cotton with white stripes, and bearing guns; the Mikado's guards, enveloped in silken doubles, hauberks and coats of mail; and numbers of military folk of all ranks for the military profession is as much respected in Japan as it is despised in China went hither and thither in groups and pairs.
-- The difficulty was, how to traverse the four thousand seven hundred miles of the Pacific which lay between Japan and the New World.
-- He took pains to calm Aouda's doubts of a successful termination of the journey, telling her that the most difficult part of it had passed, that now they were beyond the fantastic countries of Japan and China, and were fairly on their way to civilised places again.
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