fathom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 领会， 推测，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 cable strained violently, and every half hour John had to take in a fathom to ease it.
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 is quite possible she was not herself at the moment, though I cannot fathom her meaning.
-- We de-grade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways.
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：
-- But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accustomed to go far into the regions of scientific reality, he would not allow himself to be drawn into the regions of the strange and almost of the supernatural; but yet how to explain why Top, one of those sensible dogs who never waste their time in barking at the moon, should persist in trying with scent and hearing to fathom this abyss, if there was nothing there to cause his uneasiness?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without inquiring whether Salamanders were of necessity good confidential agents, or whether a fire-proof man was as a matter of course trustworthy, Frederick Trent threw himself into a chair, and, burying his head in his hands, endeavoured to fathom the motives which had led Quilp to insinuate himself into Richard Swiveller's confidence; for that the disclosure was of his seeking, and had not been spontaneously revealed by Dick, was sufficiently plain from Quilp's seeking his company and enticing him away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must fathom the significance of this crime, the danger to society that lurks in such pathological, as it were, individuals as Maslova.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath the wall of the house front there lies a channel, a fathom wide, paved with cobble-stones, and beside it runs a graveled walk bordered by geraniums and oleanders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots.
-- But for his observant curiosity, and the skill with which he managed to introduce himself into the salons of Paris, this story would not have been colored by the tones of truth which it certainly owes to him, for they are entirely due to his penetrating sagacity and desire to fathom the mysteries of an appalling condition of things, which was concealed as carefully by the victim as by those who had brought it to pass.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another anchor was got ready and dropped in a fathom and a half of water.
-- We left a good stock of powder and shot, the bulk of the salt goat, a few medicines, and some other necessaries, tools, clothing, a spare sail, a fathom or two of rope, and by the particular desire of the doctor, a handsome present of tobacco.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was sailing only one fathom below the surface of the water when the shock came.
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