wash是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 洗； 洗的衣物vt. 冲刷， 洗； 冲出vi. 洗澡，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phoebus Apollo turned the mouths of all these rivers together and made them flow for nine days against the wall, while Jove rained the whole time that he might wash it sooner into the sea.
-- Then Jove lord of the storm-cloud said to Apol-lo, 'Dear Phoebus, go, I pray you, and take Sarpedon out of range of the weapons; cleanse the black blood from off him, and then bear him a long way off where you may wash him in the river, anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him in immortal raiment; this done, commit him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who will carry him straightway to the rich land of Lycia, where his broth-ers and kinsmen will inter him, and will raise both mound and pillar to his memory, in due honour to the dead.'
-- Then Achilles told his men to set a large tripod upon the fire that they might wash the clotted gore from off Patro-clus.
-- I could then wash the sweat from off me in the river and in the evening return to Ilius.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some way out, the wash upon an irregular band of reef shone with a pallid light of its own.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After that, he learned to lie in a beach pool and let the wash of the waves just cover him and lift him up while he paddled, but he always kept his eye open for big waves that might hurt.
-- Bad one!Wicked one!Worthless son!Go and wash Kala Nag and attend to his ears, and see that there are no thorns in his feet.
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：
-- 'Come, friend,' said Hawkeye, drawing out a keg from be-neath a cover of leaves, toward the close of the repast, and addressing the stranger who sat at his elbow, doing great justice to his culinary skill, 'try a little spruce; 'twill wash away all thoughts of the colt, and quicken the life in your bosom.
-- 'Gamut David Gamut,' returned the singing master, preparing to wash down his sorrows in a powerful draught of the woodsman's high-flavored and well-laced com-pound.
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
-- They looked in vain for the form they had so recently seen stalking along in silent shores, while a low and regular wash of the little waves, by announcing that the waters were not yet subsided, furnished a frightful memorial of the deed of blood they had just witnessed.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Chinese laundryman refused to wash for him without payment she had sent his things to be washed with hers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 14 The next day, the 16th of April, and Easter Sunday, the settlers issued from the Chimneys at daybreak, and proceeded to wash their linen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The meal finished, Nell assisted to wash the cups and saucers, and put them in their proper places, and these household duties performed, Mrs Jarley arrayed herself in an exceedingly bright shawl for the purpose of making a progress through the streets of the town.
-- But he never forgot or pardoned that circumstance of the shilling; holding that if he had come back to get another he would have done well enough, but that his returning to work out the former gift was a stain upon his moral character which no penitence or contrition could ever wash away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This old woman, who, with her son, was charged with incendiarism, bore her confinement good-naturedly, grieving only over her son, who was also in jail, but above all, her heart was breaking for her old man who, she feared, would be eaten up by lice, as her daughter-in-law had returned to her parents, and there was no one to wash him.
-- The women went to the faucets in the corridor to wash themselves.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm going to wash and dress, and then I'll come down and explain things.... Save me some of that mutton.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was no unusual sound nothing but the low wash of the ripple and the croaking of the inmates of the wood.
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：
-- In the faint wash of motion, they could see his ruddy face, and could feel him watching them.
-- The wash of her paddles grew duller.
-- The boats swayed again from the wash of steamer.
-- There one would wash off all the lies and ignominy and dirt that had been put upon one here, a perfect bath of cleanness and glad refreshment, and go unknown, unquestioned, unabased.
-- One was a tiny little rock with the tide of nothingness rising higher and higher She herself was real, and only herself just like a rock in a wash of flood-water.
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