Atlantic是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 大西洋的 n. 大西洋，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, the Atlantic Ocean was the appointed meeting place with the DUNCAN.
-- After leaving America the thirty-seventh parallel crosses the Atlantic Ocean."
-- Glenarvan had left the Bay of Talcahuano on the 14th of October, and arrived on the shores of the Atlantic on the 12th of November.
-- Nothing could be more agreeable than such a recital to Lady Helena and Mary Grant; and accordingly Lord Glenarvan hastened to satisfy their curiosity—going over incident by incident, the entire march from one ocean to another, the pass of the Andes, the earthquake, the disappearance of Robert, his capture by the condor, Thalcave's providential shot, the episode of the red wolves, the devotion of the young lad, Sergeant Manuel, the inundations, the caimans, the waterspout, the night on the Atlantic shore—all these details, amusing or terrible, excited by turns laughter and horror in the listeners.
-- The result of our journey across America is this: We have reached the conviction, or rather absolute certainty, that the shipwreck never occurred on the shores of the Atlantic nor Pacific.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg at least, so he hoped to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool.
-- From this point it described a long curve, descending towards Bitter Creek Valley, to rise again to the dividing ridge of the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
-- On the declivity of the Atlantic basin the first streams, branches of the North Platte River, already appeared.
-- The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature.
-- Arrived!Arrived at the station which is in daily communication, by numerous trains, with the Atlantic seaboard!
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immea-surable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Yankees were massing for anattack on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, the line which connected Atlanta with Tennessee and the West, the sameline over which the Southern troops had been rushed last fall to win the victory at Chickamauga.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the Coketowners were so patriotic after all, that they never had pitched their property into the Atlantic yet, but, on the contrary, had been kind enough to take mighty good care of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cape itself is nothing but a huge mount of granite standing naked and alone to meet the Atlantic waves.
-- And yet when one came to think the matter over seriously, what mattered it whether the plains and mountains of Iceland were suspended over our devoted heads, or the mighty billows of the Atlantic Ocean?
-- "Then the mighty waves of the Atlantic are rolling over our heads?"
-- Despite the great atmospheric pressure down here, you will notice that this inland sea rises and falls with as much regularity as the Atlantic itself."
-- It must be quite as wide as the Mediterranean--or perhaps even as the great Atlantic Ocean.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea.
-- Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
-- After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage, as they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or brig, confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only); after listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o'clock, I went up stairs to go to bed, feeling quite sure by this time Queequeg must certainly have brought his Ramadan to a termination.
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled Bowie-knives.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among other things, he noticed a circular issued by one of the companies, which read: ATLANTIC AVENUE RAILROAD SPECIAL NOTICE The motormen and conductors and other employees of this company having abruptly left its service, an opportunity is now given to all loyal men who have struck against their will to be reinstated, providing they will make their applications by twelve o'clock noon on Wednesday, January 16th.
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