tortoise是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 龟， 乌龟，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had got completely away from everyone, like a tortoise in its shell, and even the sight 44 Crime and Punishmentof a servant girl who had to wait upon him and looked sometimes into his room made him writhe with nervous irritation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tortoise liver, filleted shark, and beef steaks from seadogs."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard a noise just over my head, like the clapping of wings, and then began to perceive the woful condition I was in; that some eagle had got the ring of my box in his beak, with an intent to let it fall on a rock, like a tortoise in 177a shell, and then pick out my body, and devour it: for the sagacity and smell of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at a great distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch board.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I particularly noticed some enormous shells--carapaces (turtle and tortoise species) the diameter of which exceeded fifteen feet.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was it not so, O Don Miguel!thou Chilian whale, marked like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back!In plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of Cetacean History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - Going down to the seaside, I found a large tortoise or turtle.
-- I had tortoise or turtle enough, but now and then one was as much as I could put to any use: I had timber enough to have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to have cured into raisins, to have loaded that fleet when it had been built.
-- I had, indeed, found a tortoise on the shore, as big almost as I could lift, and had tossed it into the boat; and I had a great jar of fresh water, that is to say, one of my earthen pots; but what was all this to being driven into the vast ocean, where, to be sure, there was no shore, no mainland or island, for a thousand leagues at least?
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