mechanical是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 机械的， 由机构制成的； 机械似的， 呆板的，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：
-- She had two masts and all the sails and rigging of an ordinary clipper, which would enable her to take advantage of every favorable wind, though her chief reliance was on her mechanical power.
-- The front and hinder part were connected by means of a rude mechanical contrivance, which did not allow of the vehicle turning quickly.
-- Besides, the pace of the horses must be regulated by the slower pace of the bullocks, truly mechanical engines which lose in time what they gain in power.
-- A slight mechanical change would produce a crater of eruption in these slopes, which consisted merely of whitish silicious tufa.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have only been able to make out one or two fugitive observations, jotted down in a mere mechanical way.
-- My uncle, the Professor, ate greedily, but evidently without appetite, eating simply from some mechanical motion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was awful!What could you do with such a place, but leave it alone!All these endless rooms that nobody used, all the Midlands routine, the mechanical cleanliness and the mechanical order!Clifford had insisted on a new cook, an experienced woman who had served him in his rooms in London.
-- 'Rock bottom!The bottom that has no bottom!The Bol-shevists will have the finest army in the world in a very short time, with the finest mechanical equipment.
-- We're only cerebrating make-shifts, mechanical and intellectual experiments.
-- But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sym-pathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
-- There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a singular man in all respects; he might not have been quite in earnest, but that the short, hard, rapid manner in which he shot out these cinders of principles, as if it were done by mechanical revolvency, seemed irreconcilable with banter.
-- 'Now, as I came down to-day, I found that your friend, Mr Doyce, is looking for a partner in his business not a partner in his mechanical knowledge, but in the ways and means of turning the business arising from it to the best account.'
-- 'He's a merry fellow, too,' said Mr Pancks, admiring him as if he were a mechanical toy.
-- Mr Flintwinch, with his wry presence brought to bear upon her daily like some eccentric mechanical force, would perhaps have screwed it out of her, if there had been less resistance in her; but she was too strong for him.
-- Mr F.'s Aunt was so stiffened that she had the appearance of being past bending by any means short of powerful mechanical pressure.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his 'sewinsheen', a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go 'wound and wound'.
-- Demi's miracle of mechanical skill, though the cover wouldn't shut, Rob's footstool had a wiggle in its uneven legs that she declared was soothing, and no page of the costly book Amy's child gave her was so fair as that on which appeared in tipsy capi-tals, the words 'To dear Grandma, from her little Beth.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his vitality in him.
-- For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.
-- In the excitement of the moment, Ahab had forgotten that since the loss of his leg he had never once stepped on board of any vessel at sea but his own, and then it was always by an ingenious and very handy mechanical contrivance peculiar to the Pequod, and a thing not to be rigged and shipped in any other vessel at a moment's warning.
-- But, besides the application to him of the generic remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this task she laboured incessantly for some time, finding relief from her own nervous fears and imaginings in the humdrum, mechanical movement of the machine.
-- Her hands began to ache at the wrists and then in the fingers, and towards the last she seemed one mass of dull, complaining muscles, fixed in an eternal position and performing a single mechanical movement which became more and more distasteful, until as last it was absolutely nauseating.
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