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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A wall of superb rocks, in an imposing mass, rose before us, a heap of gigantic blocks, an enormous, steep granite shore, forming dark grottos, but which presented no practicable slope; it was the prop of the Island of Crespo.
-- I could distinguish the arches springing capriciously from natural pillars, standing broad upon their granite base, like the heavy columns of Tuscan architecture.
-- I saw nothing but the granite base through the glass panels of the saloon.
-- I directed our steps towards a vast bay cut in the steep granite shore.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.
-- His trousers sank over his heels, he moved with a sort of slinking evasion, more crushed with odd self-consciousness now he had the slim old arm-chair to carry, his arm over the back, the four fine, square tapering legs swaying perilously near the granite setts of the pavement.
-- It was very interesting to Gudrun to think of his making the great granite frieze for a great granite factory in Cologne.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, at the mouth of the watercourse and above the reach of the high tide, the convulsions of nature had formed, not a grotto, but a pile of enormous rocks, such as are often met with in granite countries and which bear the name of "Chimneys."
-- At the point where the sailor had left his raft of wood, it began to run between the two high granite walls; but if on the left bank the wall remained clear and abrupt, on the right bank, on the contrary, it sank gradually, the massive sides changed to isolated rocks, the rocks to stones, the stones to shingle running to the extremity of the point.
-- They then returned, following the southern crest of the granite platform, bordered by a long fringe of jagged rocks, of the most whimsical shapes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time, and started out in the early morning towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium.
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