torrent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 激流, 洪流, 湍流，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：
-- But Mulrady, seizing hold of a branch that was half-burned off, struck the monster such a tremendous blow, that it fell back into the torrent and disappeared, lashing the water with its formidable tail.
-- Had a torrent of lava rushed between the shores, it could not have been more impassable.
-- By this time the waters had visibly diminished; the torrent had once more become a river, though a very rapid one, it is true.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of offi-cial duties"; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one, looking at his white hands, with their swollen veins and long fingers, so softly stroking the edges of the white paper that lay before him, and at the air of weariness with which his head drooped on one side, would have suspected that in a few minutes a torrent of words would flow from his lips that would arouse a fearful storm, set the members shouting and attacking one another, and force the president to call for order.
-- Every division is at an end, all the public organs say the same thing over and over again, all feel the mighty torrent that has overtaken them and is carrying them in one direction."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The torrent of men, armed with loaded canes and sticks, was irresistible.
-- There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course; it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This lady; dressed in an off-hand, easy style; bringing her nose andher forefinger together, with the difficulty I have described;standing with her head necessarily on one side, and, with one ofher sharp eyes shut up, making an uncommonly knowing face; 307after ogling Steerforth for a few moments, broke into a torrent ofwords.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the rain fell in a steady and ceaseless torrent the stream dashed downward in volumes.
-- The persistent torrent from the gurgoyle's jaws directed all its vengeance into the grave.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, in draw-ing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas-sion which afterward ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
-- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she had exhausted a torrent of such inquiries, she threw a candlestick at Joe, burst into a loud sobbing, got out the dustpan,--which was always a very bad sign,--put on her coarse apron, and began cleaning up to a terrible extent.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If this singular torrent had not been checked in its descent by the peculiar shape of the flanks of the mountain, it would have swept into the sea, and would have formed new islands.
-- Hans halted at the precise spot where the sound of the torrent appeared nearest.
-- Supposing while he was at work a break-up were to take place, and supposing the torrent once having gained an inch were to take an ell, and come pouring bodily through the broken rock!
-- As I stood, I heard, or I thought I heard, the roar of the torrent momentarily increasing in loudness, and at times I almost felt the pleasant sensation of water upon my parched lips.
-- Supposing that we had had provisions for months, and even for years, how could we ever get out of the awful abyss into which we were being hurled by the irresistible torrent we had let loose?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When I forced him to give her up to me, by her name and place of abode,' she went on in her torrent of indignation and defence; 'when I accused her, and she fell hiding her face at my feet, was it my injury that I asserted, were they my reproaches that I poured upon her?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When the boy's worth hundreds of pounds to me, am I to lose what chance threw me in the way of getting safely, through the whims of a drunken gang that I could whistle away the lives of!And me bound, too, to a born devil that only wants the will, and has the power to, to--' Panting for breath, the old man stammered for a word; and in that instant checked the torrent of his wrath, and changed his whole demeanour.
-- They were mine, by day and night; and with them, came such a rushing torrent of fears, and apprehensions, and selfish regrets, lest you should die, and never know how devotedly I loved you, as almost bore down sense and reason in its course.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence.
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