graze是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (牲畜) 吃草, 放牧; 擦过; n. 擦, 擦伤，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：
-- About three o'clock in the morning, however, the Major noticed that the roots were beginning to graze the ground occasionally, and by sounding the depth of the water with a long branch, Tom Austin found that they were getting on rising ground.
-- The tide was high, and no doubt there was abundance of water to float the ship over the dangerous bar; but these terrific breakers alternately lifting her up and then leaving her almost dry, would infallibly make her graze the sand-banks.
-- There are 103,000 horses spreading over the plains, and 675,272 horned cattle graze in her wide-stretching pastures."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound; when I wound a man though I but graze his skin it is another mat-ter, for my weapon will lay him low.
-- It may have been a monument to some one long since dead, or it may have been used as a doubling-post in days gone by; now, how-ever, it has been fixed on by Achilles as the mark round which the chariots shall turn; hug it as close as you can, but as you stand in your chariot lean over a little to the left; urge on your right-hand horse with voice and lash, and give him a loose rein, but let the left-hand horse keep so close in, that the nave of your wheel shall almost graze the post; but mind the stone, or you will wound your horses and break your chariot in pieces, which would be sport for others but confusion for yourself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then something happened to his rear-most foot, and he went headlong and rolled sideways just in time to graze the feet of his brother and partner, following headlong.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The custom of most Indian villages is for a few boys to take the cattle and buffaloes out to graze in the early morn-ing, and bring them back at night.
-- He beat the buffaloes with a long, polished bamboo, and told Kamya, one of the boys, to graze the cattle by them-selves, while he went on with the buffaloes, and to be very careful not to stray away from the herd.
-- We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Felling timber must be punished as severely as possible, but he could not exact forfeits for cattle being driven onto his fields; and though it annoyed the keeper and made the peasants not afraid to graze their cattle on his land, he could not keep their cattle as a punishment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My flocks, like those of Neptune's old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the immense prairies of the ocean.
-- Indeed, they, like the seals, are designed to graze on the submarine prairies, and thus destroy the accumulation of weed that obstructs the tropical rivers.
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：
-- "And we've got to live for something, we're not just cattle that can graze and have done with it," said Gerald.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire 316 Gulliver's Travelsto know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseas-es she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
-- These are not suffered to taste a grain of oats, except upon certain days, till eighteen years old; nor milk, but very rarely; and in summer they graze two hours in the morning, and as many in the evening, which their parents likewise observe; but the servants are not allowed above half that time, and a great part of their grass is brought home, which they eat at the most convenient hours, when they can be best spared from work.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
-- Nor white whale, nor man, nor fiend, can so much as graze old Ahab in his own proper and inaccessible being.
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