peninsular是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 半岛，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：
-- This very year the Government threatened to withdraw its subsidy from the Peninsular Company if their vessels continued to take in coal in those western parts of Australia where convicts are admitted.
-- In fact, the Peninsular and Oriental Company has a regular line of packets between these points and England.
-- Paganel's proposal was to take the ship in question, and get to Auckland, whence it would be easy to return to Europe by the boats of the Peninsular and Oriental Company.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCEThe circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.
-- I am one of the agents of the Peninsular Company."
-- This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year.
-- IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIMThe Rangoon one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.
-- "Why," responded Fix, a little embarrassed, "I don't know; perhaps ""Ah, if you would only go on with us!An agent of the Peninsular Company, you know, can't stop on the way!You were only going to Bombay, and here you are in China.
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