hover是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. (鸟) 盘旋, 翱翔, (人) 逗留在附近徘徊，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：
-- I will not deny, however, but the horses cowered when I passed them, as though they scented the wolves; and a wolf is a beast that is apt to hover about an Indian ambushment, craving the offals of the deer the savages kill.'
-- The -numerous islands rested on the bosom of the Horican, some low and sunken, as if embedded in the waters, and others appearing to hover about the element, in little hillocks of green velvet; among which the fishermen of the beleaguer-ing army peacefully rowed their skiffs, or floated at rest on the glassy mirror in quiet pursuit of their employment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have said that the company were all gone; but I ought to haveexcepted Uriah, whom I don't include in that denomination, andwho had never ceased to hover near us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was pleasant to observe the fresh flowers in the room, the pet bird with a green bough shading his little cage, the breath of freshness and youth which seemed to rustle through the old dull house and hover round the child.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
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：
-- The artist seemed to hover like a creature on the wing, waiting to settle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- James Harthouse continued to lounge in the same place and attitude, smoking his cigar in his own easy way, and looking pleasantly at the whelp, as if he knew himself to be a kind of agreeable demon who had only to hover over him, and he must give up his whole soul if required.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During many hours of the short winter days, however, when it was dusk there early in the afternoon, changing distortions of herself in her wheeled chair, of Mr Flintwinch with his wry neck, of Mistress Affery coming and going, would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern.
-- At length Lord Decimus, with a coffee-cup in his hand, began to hover about among the pictures, and to cause an interesting speculation to arise in all minds as to the probabilities of his ceasing to hover, and enabling the smaller birds to flutter up-stairs; which could not be done until he had urged his noble pinions in that direction.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching regiments in the east.
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