equator是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 赤道，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.
-- What then should there be in this doubloon of the Equator that is so killing wonderful?
-- I've heard that the Isle of Albemarle, one of the Gallipagos, is cut by the Equator right in the middle.
-- Seems to me some sort of Equator cuts yon old man, too, right in his middle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 20th of July, the tropic of Capricorn was cut by 105d of longitude, and the 27th of the same month we crossed the Equator on the 110th meridian.
-- It crossed the equator December 1, in 142脗掳 long.
-- The next day, 26th of January, we cut the equator at the eighty-second meridian and entered the northern hemisphere.
-- The equator was crossed.
-- This bank consists of alluvia, or large heaps of organic matter, brought either from the Equator by the Gulf Stream, or from the North Pole by the counter-current of cold water which skirts the American coast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
-- These fifty-three degrees being subtracted from ninety degrees the distance from the pole to the equator there remained thirty-seven degrees.
-- The flora will retreat towards the Equator at the same time as the fauna.
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