navy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 海军，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood!They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
-- And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth, at the time of sailing, $20,000,000!and every year importing into our harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000.
-- I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
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：
-- The Army and Navy Stores are a bond of union between all who dwell between the river and St. James's Park.
-- I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an engagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. James Park.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having by this time cried as much as I possibly could, I began tothink it was of no use crying any more, especially as neitherRoderick Random, nor that cap- tain in the Royal British Navy hadever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know now that chance has brought before me M. Pierre Aronnax, Professor of Natural History at the Museum of Paris, entrusted with a scientific mission abroad, Conseil, his servant, and Ned Land, of Canadian origin, harpooner on board the frigate Abraham Lincoln of the navy of the United States of America."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy would tend to thoseYankee gunboats and the ports would be wide open.
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