arc是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 弧， 弓形物； 弧光，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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Uncas described an arc in the water with his own blade, and as the canoe passed swiftly on, Chingachgook recovered his paddle, and flour-ishing it on high, he gave the war-whoop of the Mohicans, and then lent his strength and skill again to the important task.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, the engineer inclined it towards the south, that is to say, in the direction of the coast opposite to the sun, for it must not be forgotten that the settlers in Lincoln Island, as the island was situated in the Southern Hemisphere, saw the radiant planet describe its diurnal arc above the northern, and not above the southern horizon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sledge, shortening this route, took a chord of the arc described by the railway.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An arc of silver shone on her right side: the sword had descended.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible.
-- I end here this catalogue, which is somewhat dry perhaps, but very exact, with a series of bony fish that I observed in passing belonging to the apteronotes, and whose snout is white as snow, the body of a beautiful black, marked with a very long loose fleshy strip; odontognathes, armed with spikes; sardines nine inches long, glittering with a bright silver light; a species of mackerel provided with two anal fins; centronotes of a blackish tint, that are fished for with torches, long fish, two yards in length, with fat flesh, white and firm, which, when they arc fresh, taste like eel, and when dry, like smoked salmon; labres, half red, covered with scales only at the bottom of the dorsal and anal fins; chrysoptera, on which gold and silver blend their brightness with that of the ruby and topaz; golden-tailed spares, the flesh of which is extremely delicate, and whose phosphorescent properties betray them in the midst of the waters; orange-coloured spares with long tongues; maigres, with gold caudal fins, dark thorn-tails, anableps of Surinam, etc.
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：
-- It launched in a white arc through the air, there was a bursting of the water, and among the smooth ripples a swimmer was making out to space, in a centre of faintly heaving motion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So you see, we arc deep-sea monsters, and when the lob-ster walks on mud, he stirs it up for everybody.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
-- Next instant, the luckless mate, so full of furious life, was smitten bodily into the air, and making a long arc in his descent, fell into the sea at the distance of about fifty yards.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arc lights were sputtering overhead, and high up were the lighted windows of the tall office buildings.
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