universal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 普遍的, 全体的, 全球的，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：
-- Everybody had something to say about it except the Major, who surveyed the universal deluge with the utmost indifference.
-- CHAPTER IX THROUGH THE STRAITS OF MAGELLANTHE joy on board was universal when Paganel's resolution was made known.
-- Paganel's theory met with universal acceptance.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
-- You, who have electric telegraphs and universal exhibitions in New Zealand, you think it is all quite natural.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose you've read the Universal History, Parfen Semeonovitch, haven't you?'
-- Publicity is a noble, beneficent, and universal right.
-- You have taken some accidental case and twisted it into a universal law, which is unjust.'
-- Universal peace, and the happiness of mankind as a whole, being the result!Is it really so that I may understand you, sir?'
-- 'But the universal necessity of living, of drinking, of eating in short, the whole scientific conviction that this necessity can only be satisfied by universal co-operation and the solidarity of interests is, it seems to me, a strong enough idea to serve as a basis, so to speak, and a 'spring of life,' for humanity in future centuries,' said Gavrila Ar-dalionovitch, now thoroughly roused.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You evidently don't believe in the maxim: Act so that every one of your actions is capable of being made into a universal rule."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was on the 17th of March that the lift acted for the first time, and gave universal satisfaction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now you're a universal mistruster.
-- 'I know you remember it, Jerry, and the universal opinion was, that it served him right.
-- The little old gentleman was the active spirit of the place, the adjuster of all differences, the promoter of all merry-makings, the dispenser of his friend's bounty, and of no small charity of his own besides; the universal mediator, comforter, and friend.
-- Oh!it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes everywhere, in fact, except along the river valley showed how universal were its ramifications.
-- In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must admit that he did not believe in the unicorn, and was the only one on board who did not share that universal conviction.
-- Perhaps they would know this almost universal language.
-- "There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This they all engaged to do, and entered into writings or covenants to do so; and I made a formal will, disposing of my plantation and effects in case of my death, making the captain of the ship that had saved my life, as be-fore, my universal heir, but obliging him to dispose of my effects as I had directed in my will; one half of the produce being to himself, and the other to be shipped to England.
-- I showed myself a little concerned and uneasy at this ac-count, and inquired of the old captain how it came to pass that the trustees should thus dispose of my effects, when he knew that I had made my will, and had made him, the Por-tuguese captain, my universal heir, &c. He told me that was true; but that as there was no proof of my being dead, he could not act as executor until some certain account should come of my death; and, besides, he was not willing to intermeddle with a thing so remote: that it was true he had registered my will, and put in his claim; and could he have given any account of my being dead or alive, he would have acted by procuration, and taken pos-session of the ingenio (so they call the sugar-house), and have given his son, who was now at the Brazils, orders to do it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a match that must give universal satisfaction.
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