limestone是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 石灰石，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first floor was but five feet from the ground, and they lifted Leora up to the limestone ledge of a half-open corridor window.
-- From a hilltop they swung down a curving road to a beach where the high surf boomed in limestone caves.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to weigh a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the solid elements of water which they assimilate, these animalculae produce limestone, and this limestone forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and solidity equal granite.
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