granite是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 花岗岩， 花岗石，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 internal rumblings, the crash of the avalanches, the fall of masses of granite and basalt, and the whirlwind of pulverized snow, made all communication impossible.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the gray boulders.
-- The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
-- A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
-- 'It is a wonderful place, the moor,' said he, looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges.
-- A boulder of granite concealed our approach, and crouching behind it we gazed over it at the signal light.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For half an hour Martin defended himself, not too politely, before the gem-like Gottlieb, the granite Wickett.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They laid her on the granite pavement of the embankment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.
-- The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- High up on the plateau at the foot of the BlueRidge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite andgaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
-- Along the roadside the blackberry brambles were concealing withsoftest green the savage red gulches cut by the winter's rains, and the bare granite boulders pushing up through the redearth were being draped with sprangles of Cherokee roses and compassed about by wild violets of palest purple hue.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Alas!dear sir,' said she, 'yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it?
-- 'If that's all your grief,' said the huntsman, 'I'll take there with all my heart'; so he drew her under his cloak, and the moment he wished to be on the granite mountain they were both there.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cape itself is nothing but a huge mount of granite standing naked and alone to meet the Atlantic waves.
-- The soil was again affected by the neighborhood of the mountains, whose granite peered out of the ground like tops of an old oak.
-- I left my granite couch and made one of the party to enjoy a view of the magnificent spectacle which developed itself, panorama-like, at our feet.
-- We are turning our backs on the granite rocks, and are like people from Hamburg who would go to Lubeck by way of Hanover."
-- I was crushed, annihilated!and exhausted myself in vain attempts to turn in my granite bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then suffered them to seek the fire, as before; but with the frown fixed above them, as if the sculptor of old Egypt had indented it in the hard granite face, to frown for ages.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
-- In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah, some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--OF GRANITE AND BRASS Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being called, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of labourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the rush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year.
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