triangular是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 三角的; 三者间的,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:
-- Amongst the triangular I saw some an inch and a half in length, with wholesome flesh and a delicious flavour; they are brown at the tail, and yellow at the fins, and I recommend their introduction into fresh water, to which a certain number of sea-fish easily accustom themselves.
-- There were rays of giant size, five yards long, and endowed with great muscular strength, which enabled them to shoot above the waves; sharks of many kinds; amongst others, one fifteen feet long, with triangular sharp teeth, and whose transparency rendered it almost invisible in the water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Chuckster was standing behind the lid of his desk, making such preparations towards finishing off for the night, as pulling down his wristbands and pulling up his shirt-collar, settling his neck more gracefully in his stock, and secretly arranging his whiskers by the aid of a little triangular bit of looking glass.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rivulet was hidden by the luxuriant vegetation of the banks save at one point, where I caught a triangular patch of its glittering water.
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:
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
-- The costume of the votary of music had undergone no other alteration from that so lately described, except that he had covered his bald head with the triangular beaver, which had not proved suf-ficiently alluring to excite the cupidity of any of his captors.
-- Hawkeye was not long in assuming his bor-rowed garments; and when his restless eyes were hid behind the glasses, and his head was surmounted by the triangular beaver, as their statures were not dissimilar, he might read-ily have passed for the singer, by starlight.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A single triangular sail, of strong canvas, was hoisted as a storm-jib, so as to hold the wind from behind.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On a triangular shelf across the corner stood bread, bacon, cheese, and a cup for ale or cider, which was supplied from a flagon beneath.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A triangular opening faced towards the bows of the ship, so that the insider commanded a complete view forward.
-- Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow, the savage stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed off towards the spot where the chase had last been descried.
-- His cranial cavity is continuous with the first neck-vertebra; and in that vertebra the bottom of the spinal canal will measure ten inches across, being eight in height, and of a triangular figure with the base downwards.
-- There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
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