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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, I did write it,' she cried, pouring out her soul in a torrent of words.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It could be felt that the first word spoken by anyone present would bring a torrent of speech from the whole deputation.
-- A torrent of voices greeted her appearance at the front door.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
-- Menelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryclus, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandocus, Lysandrus, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses.
-- She told me I was to fall under the walls of Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo; would that Hector, the best man among the Trojans, might there slay me; then should I fall a hero by the hand of a hero; whereas now it seems that I shall come to a most pitiable end, trapped in this river as though I were some swine-herd's boy, who gets carried down a torrent while trying to cross it during a storm.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and the torrent of black horns, foaming muzzles, and star-ing eyes whirled down the ravine just as boulders go down in floodtime; the weaker buffaloes being shouldered out to the sides of the ravine where they tore through the creepers.
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：
-- Infuriated at the self-command of the captive, the woman placed her arms akimbo; and, throwing herself into a pos-ture of defiance, she broke out anew, in a torrent of words that no art of ours could commit successfully to paper.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
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：
-- She turned on him with a torrent of abuse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were simply the last traces left by the torrent which had so long thundered through this cavity, and the air there was pure though slightly damp, but producing no mephitic exhalation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With such good wishes and farewells, poured out in a rapid torrent until they were out of hearing, Quilp suffered them to depart; and when he could see the coach no longer, drew in his head, and rolled upon the ground in an ecstacy of enjoyment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Two Siberian convicts," suddenly said the red-haired woman in a hoarse voice, accompanying every word with a torrent of abuse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more the torrent of public opinion.
-- The cabins poured forth a torrent of sailors and officers, each with heaving breast and troubled eye watching the course of the cetacean.
-- The electric light went out suddenly, and two enormous waterspouts broke over the bridge of the frigate, rushing like a torrent from stem to stern, overthrowing men, and breaking the lashings of the spars.
-- The pumps of the Nautilus have an enormous power, as you must have observed when their jets of water burst like a torrent upon the Abraham Lincoln.
-- A torrent had carried us from one sea to another.
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