equal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. /vt. 相等的, 相等于, 相等匹敌，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：
-- The varlets know the better pieces of the deer; and one would think they might carve and roast a saddle, equal to the best cook in the land!But everything is raw, for the Iro-quois are thorough savages.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stranger, however, quickened his horse to an equal pace.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the blindness of love led her to believe what she wanted to be true, and her love was so great that it seemed impossible to her that it should not in return awake an equal love.
-- Tiare mingled French with English in her conversation, for she used both languages with equal facility.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, if the smoke did not take the heat out with it, would be enough to maintain an equal temperature inside.
-- Outside, as the night advanced, the tempest also increased in strength, until it was equal to that which had carried the prisoners from Richmond to this land in the Pacific.
-- "Stewed," replied the reporter, "their flesh is equal to the best venison!"
-- The clay, soaked in water, was mixed by the feet and hands of the manipulators, and then divided into pieces of equal size.
-- The value of this angle would give the height of Alpha, and consequently that of the pole above the horizon, that is to say, the latitude of the island, since the latitude of a point of the globe is always equal to the height of the pole above the horizon of this point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child's, for child she certainly was, although I thought it probable from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
-- 'A few,' replied Quilp, with equal dryness.
-- They were a pretty equal match, and rolled about together, exchanging blows which were by no means child's play, until at length Kit, planting a well-directed hit in his adversary's chest, disengaged himself, sprung nimbly up, and snatching the cage from Quilp's hands made off with his prize.
-- Breakfast being at length over, Mr Codlin called the bill, and charging the ale to the company generally (a practice also savouring of misanthropy) divided the sum-total into two fair and equal parts, assigning one moiety to himself and friend, and the other to Nelly and her grandfather.
-- 'Yes, Sir, indeed,' returned Dick, yielding to his destiny and saying whatever came uppermost; 'an equal quantity of slumber was never got out of one bed and bedstead, and if you're going to sleep in that way, you must pay for a double-bedded room.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the intonation of her voice she seemed to say, "All are equal to-day," and wiping her mouth with a bandana handkerchief which she kept under her arm-pit, she extended her lips.
-- "I don't know whether I am a liberal or something else," smilingly said Nekhludoff, who always wondered at being joined to some party, or called a liberal only because he held that a man must not be judged without being heard; that all are equal before the law; that it is wrong to torture and beat people generally, especially those that are not convicted.
-- We would give each an equal share," said an oven-builder, rapidly raising and lowering his eyebrows.
-- asked Nekhludoff, "are the domestics also to receive equal shares?"
-- "If it is to be divided, everybody is to get an equal share," after considering awhile, he said in a deep basso.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The freshness of the morning made me desire an equal freshness.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The current was bearing coracle and schooner southward at an equal rate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quickness of hand, and who knew no equal in his dangerous occupation.
-- Very well, when you dive, Ned, as many times 32 feet of water as there are above you, so many times does your body bear a pressure equal to that of the atmosphere, that is to say, 15 lb.
-- And if you are not crushed by such a pressure, it is because the air penetrates the interior of your body with equal pressure.
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