perpendicular是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 垂直的, 成直角的; 直立的; n. 垂直线，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 escape was not very difficult, except the twenty feet of perpendicular fall outside the grotto.
-- Glenarvan first, then Lady Helena, let themselves down along the rope, till they came to the spot where the perpendicular wall met the top of the slope.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, he pushed open the door with the weak rattle in its throat, stumbled down the two steps, got past the two ancient cashiers, and shouldered himself into the musty back closet where Mr. Lorry sat at great books ruled for fig-ures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and everything under the clouds were a sum.
-- 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.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach, and between the islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that ran up to the perpendicular cliffs, and somewhere below the cliffs was the mouth of the tunnel.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms.
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：
-- The scout, while making his remarks, was busied in col-lecting certain necessary implements; as he concluded, he moved silently by the group of travelers, accompanied by the Mohicans, who seemed to comprehend his intentions with instinctive readiness, when the whole three disap-peared in succession, seeming to vanish against the dark face of a perpendicular rock that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge.
-- 'Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side,' he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; 'and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded.
-- The river had worn away the edge of the soft rock in such a man-ner as to render its first pitch less abrupt and perpendicular than is usual at waterfalls.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.
-- Indoors nothing was to be heard save the droning of blue-bottle flies; out-of-doors the whetting of scythes and the hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the near-ly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.
-- The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made out that I was fastened to a stout perpendicular ladder a few inches from the wall,--a fixture there,--the means of ascent to the loft above.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- Its sides, which were almost as perpendicular as those of a well, presented numerous projections which doubtless would assist our descent.
-- I then learned, for the first time, that my providential fall had brought me to the bottom of an almost perpendicular gallery.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hazel thicket was a lace-work, of half-open leaves, and the last dusty perpendicular of the catkins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Mr Pancks's hair was standing up like strong wire, he gave it another double-handed impulse in the perpendicular direction, and smiled at his proprietor in a most hideous manner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
-- It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
-- In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes.
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