bolt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 插销; 螺栓; 闪电; 快跑; 逃走; v. (马) 等脱缰逃跑; 囫囵吞下; 拴紧，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：
-- Thaouka pranced up, and reared himself bolt upright on his hind legs, and made a bound over the barrier of fire, while a clear, young voice called out:"God save you, my lord."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One struck, and two, and we had almost for the second time given it up in despair, when in an instant we both sat bolt upright in our chairs, with all our weary senses keenly on the alert once more.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Great Hector is now fighting at our ships; he has broken through the gates and the strong bolt that held them.'
-- The gate was barred with a single bolt of pine which it took three men to force into its place, and three to draw back so as to open the gate, but Achilles could draw it by himself.
-- Moreover I know well, O Priam, and you cannot hide it, that some god has brought you to the ships of the Achaeans, for else, no man however strong and in his prime would dare to come to our host; he could neither pass our guard unseen, nor draw the bolt of my gates thus easily; therefore, provoke me no further, lest I sin against the word of Jove, and suffer you not, suppliant though you are, within my tents.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a strong idea that the coffin he had seen was running -after him; and, pictured as hopping on behind him, bolt upright, upon its narrow end, always on the point of over-taking him and hopping on at his side perhaps taking his arm it was a pursuer to shun.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gate was locked, but she shook the rusted bolt till it was loosened, and the gate opened; and little Gerda ran off barefooted into the wide world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bolt is impending, and the tree must fall.
-- Traddles ran his greasy hands through his hair, and stoodit bolt upright, and stared in confusion on the table-cloth.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am a blast-ed tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
-- Man!You may hate, but beware!Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But such a--" he moved his chair and looked about the floor between us, and then again at me--"such a most oncommon Bolt as that!"
-- Lord bless you, I have heard him, a hundred times, if I have heard him once, say to regular cracksmen in our front office, "You know where I live; now, no bolt is ever drawn there; why don't you do a stroke of business with me?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: 'Go, Snow- white, and bolt the door,' and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spec-tacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun.
-- Snow-white was quite sorry at his departure, and as she unbolted the door for him, and the bear was hurrying out, he caught against the bolt and a piece of his hairy coat was torn off, and it seemed to Snow-white as if she had seen gold shining through it, but she was not sure about it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The white night-cap, embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt upright, in which Signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened the varied performances with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts, hung upon a nail; but no other portion of his wardrobe, or other token of himself or his pursuits, was to be seen anywhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with that, she turned it in the lock; but, alas!Queequeg's supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
-- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea.
-- When instantly, the entire ship careens over on her side; every bolt in her starts like the nail-heads of an old house in frosty weather; she trembles, quivers, and nods her frighted mast-heads to the sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There's a bolt at the top, you won't be able to reach,' interposed Toby.
-- Spyers no sooner heard this, than he put some clean linen and a comb, in his pocket, in case he should have to stop a day or two; and away he goes, and sets himself down at one of the public-house windows behind the little red curtain, with his hat on, all ready to bolt out, at a moment's notice.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She smiled and red- dened up very sweet, and I says, 'If you don't mind it, I'll shut the door and bolt it.'
-- Then Tom marked out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of his candle quit on him, and then he could go to bed, and hide the grindstone under his straw tick and sleep on it.
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