blow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 吹， 吹气， 打气； 吹奏； 爆炸n. 打， 打击，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the carter saw this, he drew out his hatchet and aimed a blow at the sparrow, meaning to kill her; but she flew away, and the blow fell upon the poor horse's head with such force, that he fell down dead.
-- The carter ran up and struck at her again with his hatchet; but away she flew, and the blow fell upon the second horse and killed him on the spot.
-- 'Oh, yes,' he replied, 'I will soon subdue the giants, and do not require the help of the hundred horsemen to do it; he who can hit seven with one blow has no need to be afraid of two.'
-- When he reached the gate of the castle, he found it closed, but he gave it a blow with his stick, and it flew wide open at once and he passed through.
-- When he found himself safe, he was overjoyed to think that he had got the Water of Life; and as he was going on his way homewards, he passed by the little dwarf, who, when he saw the sword and the loaf, said, 'You have made a noble prize; with the sword you can at a blow slay whole armies, and the bread will never fail you.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I delivered up both my pistols in the same manner as I had done my scimitar, and then my pouch of powder and bullets; begging him that the for-mer might be kept from fire, for it would kindle with the smallest spark, and blow up his imperial palace into the air.
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- Sometimes I would put up my sail, and then my business was only to steer, while the ladies gave me a gale with their fans; and, when they were weary, some of their pages would blow my sail forward with their breath, while I showed my art by steering starboard or larboard as I pleased.
-- The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways, every feature of his visage, and stared, as at an object he had never seen before; then approaching nearer, lifted up his fore-paw, whether out of curiosity or mischief I could not tell; but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it, for I durst not strike with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle.
-- And to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, 'that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.
-- 'I wish I could collect all the Facts we hear so much about,' said Tom, spitefully setting his teeth, 'and all the Figures, and all the people who found them out: and I wish I could put a thousand barrels of gunpowder under them, and blow them all up together!However, when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have my revenge.'
-- But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
-- Mr. Bounderby, who was always more or less like a Wind, finding something in his way here, began to blow at it directly.
-- My injunction is, Keep it quiet, and let it seem to blow over.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The final blow of all.
-- Let us blow up the obstacle that stands in our way."
-- A spark was now sufficient to ignite this formidable engine, and to blow the rock to atoms!
-- The gorilla placed himself on the defensive, and clutching a bone some seven or eight feet in length, a perfect club, aimed a deadly blow at the hideous beast, which reared upwards and fell with all its weight upon its adversary.
-- The blow seemed to stun him by its severity.
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：
-- And these common, violent women always go partly insane whets the change of life comes upon them This was a nasty blow to Connie.
-- It will all blow over as suddenly as it came.
-- The affair might still blow over.
-- Therefore, outwardly, it came as the most terrible blow and shock to him, He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene.
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