horizontal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 地平线的； 水平的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third arm, on the contrary, stretched right out in a horizontal position above the roaring waters, into which the lower leaves dipped.
-- Glenarvan ventured to creep out of the sheltering foliage, and made his way to the extremity of the horizontal branch to take a look round.
-- At the very height of this struggle of the electric forces of the atmosphere, a large ball of fire appeared suddenly at the extremity of the horizontal parent branch, as thick as a man's wrist, and surrounded with black smoke.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Examined with attention, its capacity of help-ing such a look was to be found in the line of the mouth, and the lines of the orbits of the eyes, being much too horizontal and thin; still, in the effect of the face made, it was a hand-some face, and a remarkable one.
-- A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.
-- he calmly asked, looking with attention at the horizontal lines of black and stone colour.
-- I have looked at her, in a state so dun and lethargic, that I have thought of nothing but the number of horizontal lines I could draw across her at the full, and the number of perpendicular lines with which I could intersect them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We look into theglittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophywhich of the diamondeyed serpents, coiled up on white satin risinggrounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows mewhich of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled andengine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever-escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if shecould afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices,butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we couldboth afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!Then,when we stroll into the squares, and great streets, and see a houseto let, sometimes we look up at it, and say, how would that do, if Iwas made a judge?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
-- A few clear and thread-like horizontal lines were the only interruption to the otherwise smooth surface of his large forehead.
-- The waggon and its load rolled no longer on the horizontal division between clearness and opacity, but were imbedded in an elastic body of a monotonous pallor throughout.
-- All the old stabling was now pulled down, and little remained besides the habitable inn itself, which, standing a little way back from the road, signified its existence to people far up and down the highway by a sign hanging from the horizontal bough of an elm on the opposite side of the way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two compasses, one for horizontal guidance, the other to ascertain the dip.
-- In reality, the great volcanic movement of the island, and all its attendant phenomena, are concentrated in the interior of the island; there, horizontal layers or strata of rocks, piled one upon the other, eruptions of basaltic origin, and streams of lava, have given this country a kind of supernatural reputation.
-- These upright pillars of stone, of the finest proportions, supported an archivault of horizontal columns which formed a kind of half-vaulted roof above the sea.
-- I had every reason to believe from this that our descent was far more horizontal than vertical.
-- My uncle was scarcely able to conceal his impatience and dissatisfaction at the road continuing still to advance in a horizontal direction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A tributary stream of confusion, moreover, poured in from an adjoining bedroom, where Mr F.'s Aunt appeared, from the sound of her voice, to be in a horizontal posture, awaiting her breakfast; and from which bower that inexorable lady snapped off short taunts, whenever she could get a hearing, as, 'Don't believe it's his doing!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
-- Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position.
-- * Hence, all the smaller, spouting, and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology.
-- a spouting fish, with a horizontal tail.
-- Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand.
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