nostril是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 鼻孔,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Much as if one nostril was caught up with a horse-hair and a little fish-hook.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (Narwhale), that is, Nostril whale. Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose.
-- But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahab's brain, as standing like an iron statue at his accustomed place beside the mizen rigging, with one nostril he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary musk from the Bashee isles (in whose sweet woods mild lovers must be walking), and with the other consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea; that sea in which the hated White Whale must even then be swimming.
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