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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he fired, the man with the beard moved his hand in a horizontal curve, so that his shots radiated out into the narrow yard like spokes from a wheel.
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：
-- Her bloom gave place to the paleness of death; her soft and melting eyes grew hard, and seemed contracting with hor-ror; while those hands, which she had raised, clasped in each other, toward heaven, dropped in horizontal lines be-fore her, the fingers pointed forward in convulsed motion.
-- The Narragansetts were suffered to browse on the branches of the trees and shrubs that were thinly scattered over the summit of the hill, while the remains of their provisions were spread under the shade of a beech, that stretched its horizontal limbs like a canopy above them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were thrown about and whirled round and round without feeling the rotation in the slightest degree, or being sensible that they were removed from a horizontal position.
-- It contained 50,000 cubic feet of gas, and, thanks to its capacity, it could maintain itself a long time in the air, although it should reach a great altitude or might be thrown into a horizontal position.
-- It was the slender crescent moon, already almost disappearing; but its light was sufficient to show clearly the horizontal line, then detached from the cloud, and the engineer could see its reflection trembling for an instant on a liquid surface.
-- The two horizontal distances were found out by means of the pole, whose length above the sand was exactly ten feet.
-- It was of little importance whether it was horizontal or not, and it did not matter much whether the stick six feet high, which was planted there, rose perpendicularly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.
-- Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest.
-- The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to examine the hull, which formed on deck a kind of horizontal platform, when I felt it gradually sinking.
-- "To steer this boat to starboard or port, to turn, in a word, following a horizontal plan, I use an ordinary rudder fixed on the back of the stern-post, and with one wheel and some tackle to steer by.
-- I examined the fittings of the apparatus, the strength of which was increased a hundredfold by lenticular rings, placed similar to those in a lighthouse, and which projected their brilliance in a horizontal plane.
-- The boards became horizontal under our feet.
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