diameter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 直径，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Contrary to what might have been supposed, the diameter of the passage increased as the explorers proceeded, so that they very soon were able to stand upright.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pit was a saucer-shaped concave, naturally formed, with a top diameter of about thirty feet, and shallow enough to allow the sunshine to reach their heads.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one of these defensive weapons, two yards and a quarter in length, and fifteen inches in diameter at the base.
-- This one, the diameter of which is nineteen feet, and the thread twenty-three feet, performs about 120 revolutions in a second."
-- This fluid mass comprises two billions two hundred and fifty millions of cubic miles, forming a spherical body of a diameter of sixty leagues, the weight of which would be three quintillions of tons.
-- The 9th of February the Nautilus floated in the broadest part of the Red Sea, which is comprised between Souakin, on the west coast, and Komfidah, on the east coast, with a diameter of ninety miles.
-- The lake, then, supporting it was a lake imprisoned by a circle of walls, measuring two miles in diameter and six in circumference.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is in length three glomglungs (which make about fifty-four English miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king's order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly.
-- The flying or floating island is exactly circular, its- diameter 7837 yards, or about four miles and a half, and consequently contains ten thousand acres.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I particularly noticed some enormous shells--carapaces (turtle and tortoise species) the diameter of which exceeded fifteen feet.
-- The orifice, which was almost circular, presented a diameter of about five feet; the somber tunnel was cut in the living rock, and coated on the inside by the different material which had once passed through it in a state of fusion.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is some advantage in this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated one.
-- Not the wondrous cistern in the whale's huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower jaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail; none of these would so surprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone, longer than a Kentuckian is tall, nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and jet-black as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before I set up my tent I drew a half-circle before the hollow place, which took in about ten yards in its semi-di-ameter from the rock, and twenty yards in its diameter from its beginning and ending.
-- I felled a cedar-tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was five feet ten inches diameter at the lower part next the stump, and four feet eleven inches diameter at the end of twenty-two feet; after which it lessened for a while, and then parted into branches.
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