fling是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 掷, 抛; 猛烈地移动; 投入，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：
-- The Indians fling them often at the distance of a hundred feet from the animal or enemy of which they are in pursuit, and with such precision that they catch round their legs and throw them down in an instant.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not as yet laid a hand upon his ship, for he was grieved and sorry; so she went close up to him and said, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you going to fling yourselves into your ships and be off home to your own land in this way?
-- And now the Trojans would have been routed and driven back into Ilius, had not Priam's son Helenus, wisest of au-gurs, said to Hector and Aeneas, 'Hector and Aeneas, you two are the mainstays of the Trojans and Lycians, for you are foremost at all times, alike in fight and counsel; hold your ground here, and go about among the host to rally them in front of the gates, or they will fling themselves into the arms of their wives, to the great joy of our foes.
-- Surely when the Achae-ans have gone home with their ships, you can shatter their wall and fling it into the sea; you can cover the beach with sand again, and the great wall of the Achaeans will then be utterly effaced.'
-- When he had done so, he cried aloud to the Trojans, 'Up, Trojans, break the wall of the Argives, and fling fire upon their ships.'
-- These will give Hector son of Priam enough to do; fight as he may, he will find it hard to vanquish their indomitable fury, and fire the ships, unless the son of Saturn fling a firebrand upon them with his own hand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Marvel, turning, saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a complicated path, hang for a moment, and then fling at his feet with almost invisible rapidity.
-- I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother,' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
-- His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thin-nest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest of time she was established on the sand, built over a chasm, and, in spite of all her vanity and securities, any common maid-servant of positive, robust temper could fling her down this bottomless pit of insufficiency, by the slightest movement of jeering or contempt.
-- And they both felt the subterranean desire to let go, to fling away everything, and lapse into a sheer unrestraint, brutal and licentious.
-- "Oh," she cried, determined to fling her stone also into the pool, since they had begun, "I don't think she wants an engagement.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors: she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for?
-- He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Jo looked quite ready to fling cold water on the slightest provocation.
-- Fling it out of the window, and don't bother any more about it.
-- He had no thought of a melodramatic plunge, but some blind instinct led him to fling hat and coat into his boat, and row away with all his might, making better time up the river than he had done in any race.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
-- "Queequeg," said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the deck, and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the water; "Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?"
-- I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The duke told him, and then says: 'I'll answer by doing the Highland fling or the sailor's hornpipe; and you well, let me see oh, I've got it you can do Hamlet's soliloquy.'
-- Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.
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