tow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. (用绳、 链等) 拖(车、 船等) n. 拖， 牵引，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery, who was steering, brought the boat by me, and rising, caught and fastened my painter to the tiller to tow me, for there was no room aboard.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, therefore, much better to tow it to the beach at Granite House.
-- "We will tow this chest to Granite House," said the engineer, "where we can make an inventory of its contents; then, if we discover any of the survivors from the supposed wreck, we can return it to those to whom it belongs.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This Ashley Wilkes in his faded, patched uniform, his blond hair bleached tow by summer suns, was a differentman from the easy-going, drowsy-eyed boy she had loved to desperation before the war.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then commanded his men to row up to that side, and fastening a cable to one of the sta-ples, ordered them to tow my chest, as they called it, toward the ship.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans picked up all the broken pieces of granite he had knocked out, and using some tow he happened to have about him, tried to shut up the fissure he had made in the wall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Calling these things to mind, and ranging Mr Pancks in a row with them, Arthur Clennam leaned this day to the opinion, without quite deciding on it, that the last of the Patriarchs was the drifting Booby aforesaid, with the one idea of keeping the bald part of his head highly polished: and that, much as an unwieldy ship in the Thames river may sometimes be seen heavily driving with the tide, broadside on, stern first, in its own way and in the way of everything else, though making a great show of navigation, when all of a sudden, a little coaly steam-tug will bear down upon it, take it in tow, and bustle off with it; similarly the cumbrous Patriarch had been taken in tow by the snorting Pancks, and was now following in the wake of that dingy little craft.
-- Just as the big ship in tow gets the credit, with most spectators, of being the powerful object, so the Patriarch usually seemed to have said himself whatever Pancks said for him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beware of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen before they can be killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer.
-- What skiff in tow of a seventy-four can stand still?
-- By the Lord, it's worth bottling!I tell ye what, men, old Rad's investment must go for it!he had best cut away his part of the hull and tow it home.
-- The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side, where fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for securing him.
-- No, they hold there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest and toughest of ox-hide.
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 wish you would,' says I, 'because it's pap that's there, and maybe you'd help me tow the raft ashore where the light is.
-- Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself.'
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