symmetry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 对称(性) ； 匀称， 整齐，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：
-- As the town grows, they lengthen the streets as we lengthen the trousers of a growing child, and thus the original symmetry is undisturbed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Rough or smooth,' said Mr Codlin, beating his hand on the little footboard where Punch, when suddenly struck with the symmetry of his legs and their capacity for silk stockings, is accustomed to exhibit them to popular admiration, 'rough or smooth, I won't go further than the mile and a half to-night.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since the receipt of the missive in the morning, Boldwood had felt the symmetry of his existence to be slowly getting distorted in the direction of an ideal passion.
-- There was, so to speak, that symmetry in their distortion which is less the characteristic of British than of Continental grotesques of the period.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They topped the rise and the white house reared its perfect symmetry before her, tall of columns, wide ofverandas, flat of roof, beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous andgracious to all.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale's which the Right Whale's sadly lacks.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowl-edge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashion-able world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
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