sprout是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 发芽, 开始生长; 发展，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They sow horns, and they sprout up like wheat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He contented himself with hiding the obstruction with grass and shrubs, which were planted in the interstices of the rocks, and which next spring would sprout thickly.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo's book was the pride of her heart, and was regarded by her family as a literary sprout of great promise.
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