lick是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 舔; (火焰) 卷过; (波浪) 轻拍，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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a little tongue of fire now began to lick the paper from below, and soon, gathering courage, mounted the sides of the parcel, and crept around it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Achilles caught him by the foot and flung him into the river to go down stream, vaunting over him the while, and saying, 'Lie there among the fishes, who will lick the blood from your wound and gloat over it; your mother shall not lay you on any bier to mourn you, but the eddies of Scamander shall bear you into the broad bosom of the sea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, if that don't lick everything!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw the pink tongue of Mont-gomery's pistol lick out once, close to the ground.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The medal* of Magua will no longer be of tin, but of beaten gold; his horn will run over with powder; dollars will be as plenty in his pouch as pebbles on the shore of Horican; and the deer will lick his hand, for they will know it to be vain to fly from the rifle he will carry!As for myself, I know not how to exceed the gratitude of the Scotchman, but I yes, I will ' * It has long been a practice with the whites to concili-ate the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which are worn in the place of their own rude ornaments.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can lick anybody in the class, and when I think of how you're going to bully the poor heathen when you get to be a missionary, and make the kids put on breeches, and marry off all the happy lovers to the wrong people, I could bawl!"
-- There was a simplicity in Martin, but it cannot be said that he did not lick his lips when Holabird mooned at the chauffeur.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course we'll fight " "Yankee thieves " "We could lick them in a month " "Why, one Southerner can licktwenty Yankees " "Teach them a lesson they won't soon forget " "Peaceably?
-- They'd lick us in a month."
-- I'll bet we could lick the Yankees in a month if all the militia of all the states wentto Virginia.
-- Families with sons at the front prayed fervently that their boys were not in Pennsylvania, butthose who knew their relatives were in the same regiment with Darcy Meade clamped their teeth and said it was anhonor for them to be in the big fight that would lick the Yankees for good and all.
-- They could and did lick the Yankees everytime the Yankees would stand and fight What would be the end of this retreat, they did not know.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A messenger was despatched half a day's journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach, and to desire, 'that his majesty would please to appoint a day and hour, when it would by his gracious plea-sure that I might have the honour to lick the dust before his footstool.'
-- This is the court style, and I found it to be more than matter of form: for, upon my admittance two days af-ter my arrival, I was commanded to crawl upon my belly, and lick the floor as I advanced; but, on account of my be-ing a stranger, care was taken to have it made so clean, that the dust was not offensive.
-- He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master's feet and posteri-ors, and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass's flesh.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tongues of fire, sparkling and crackling, appeared about to lick us up.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?"
-- Leap!leap up, and lick the sky!I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I didn't believe we could lick such a crowd of Spaniards and A-rabs, but I wanted to see the camels and elephants, so I was on hand next day, Saturday, in the ambuscade; and when we got the word we rushed out of the woods and down the hill.
-- 'Well,' I says, 's'pose we got some genies to help US can't we lick the other crowd then?'
-- When he had got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn't drop that.
-- And then think of ME!It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame.
-- I did wish Aunt Sally would come, and get done with me, and lick me, if she wanted to, and let me get away and tell Tom how we'd overdone this thing, and what a thundering hornet's-nest we'd got ourselves into, so we could stop fool-ing around straight off, and clear out with Jim before these rips got out of patience and come for us.
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