area是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 面积； 地区， 地域； 领域， 范围，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：
-- Its area measures 6,032 feet; and its contents about 1,500 cubic yards; that is to say, when completely immersed it displaces 50,000 feet of water, or weighs 1,500 tons.
-- This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, among which the Gambier group is remarkable, over which France exercises sway.
-- But, beautiful as it was, I could only take a rapid glance at the basin whose superficial area is two million of square yards.
-- VIGO BAYThe Atlantic!a vast sheet of water whose superficial area covers twenty-five millions of square miles, the length of which is nine thousand miles, with a mean breadth of two thousand seven hundred an ocean whose parallel winding shores embrace an immense circumference, watered by the largest rivers of the world, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Plata, the Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, which carry water from the most civilised, as well as from the most savage, countries!Magnificent field of water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, sheltered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so dreaded by mariners, Cape Horn and the Cape of Tempests.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This extent of water, of a circumference of nearly seven miles and an area of two hundred and fifty acres, reposed in a border of diversified trees.
-- The poultry-yard occupied an area of two hundred square yards, on the southeastern bank of the lake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once in the street, moved by some secret impulse, he laughed, and held his sides, and laughed again, and tried to peer through the dusty area railings as if to catch another glimpse of the child, until he was quite tired out.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hailed me to follow him, and, after marching through a wash house, and a paved area containing a coal shed, pump, and pigeon cot, we at length arrived in the huge, warm, cheerful apartment where I was formerly received.
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