whirl是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 使旋转; 眩晕，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：
-- Men and animals all disappeared in a whirl of foam; a liquid mass, weighing several millions of tons, engulfed them in its seething waters.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when some mighty forest is all ablaze the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of the flame even so fell the heads of the flying Trojans before Agamemnon son of Atre-us, and many a noble pair of steeds drew an empty chariot along the highways of war, for lack of drivers who were ly-ing on the plain, more useful now to vultures than to their wives.
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：
-- Uncas' he spoke in Delaware 'Uncas, drop down in the canoe, and whirl a brand among the pack; or fear may do what the wolves can't get at to per-form, and leave us without horses in the morning, when we shall have so much need to journey swiftly!'
-- returned the Indian, with characteristic pride and unmoved firm-ness; 'the Great Snake of the Mohicans has coiled himself in their wigwams, and has poisoned their triumph with the wailings of children, whose fathers have not returned!Elev-en warriors lie hid from the graves of their tribes since the snows have melted, and none will tell where to find them when the tongue of Chingachgook shall be silent!Let them draw the sharpest knife, and whirl the swiftest tomahawk, for their bitterest enemy is in their hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a good thing to write doggedly and obstinately until he was desperate, and then snatch up the ruler and whirl it about the brown head-dress with the consciousness that he could have it off if he liked.
-- CHAPTER 39All that day, though he waited for Mr Abel until evening, Kit kept clear of his mother's house, determined not to anticipate the pleasures of the morrow, but to let them come in their full rush of delight; for to-morrow was the great and long looked-for epoch in his life to-morrow was the end of his first quarter the day of receiving, for the first time, one fourth part of his annual income of Six Pounds in one vast sum of Thirty Shillings to-morrow was to be a half-holiday devoted to a whirl of entertainments, and little Jacob was to know what oysters meant, and to see a play.
-- On mounds of ashes by the wayside, sheltered only by a few rough boards, or rotten pent-house roofs, strange engines spun and writhed like tortured creatures; clanking their iron chains, shrieking in their rapid whirl from time to time as though in torment unendurable, and making the ground tremble with their agonies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway, and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-coloured robes and shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and laughing speech.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, and soaring at least as many feet above her head as she was high.
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：
-- GLADIATORIALAfter the fiasco of the proposal, Birkin had hurried blindly away from Beldover, in a whirl of fury.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this, and more, in his hurry, and in hers, in the whirl of her own gratified malice, in the dread of being discovered, in the rapidly increasing noise of heavy rain among the leaves, and a thunderstorm rolling up Mrs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, Jonah's prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was sure she had not seen it all--that the city was one whirl of pleasure and delight.
-- His head was still in such a whirl that he felt confused.
-- She was getting in the metropolitan whirl of pleasure.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- if you happened to touch her, when she warn't noticing, she done the same; she couldn't face noway and be satisfied, because she allowed there was something behind her every time so she was always a-whirling around sudden, and saying 'ouch,' and before she'd got two-thirds around she'd whirl back again, and say it again; and she was afraid to go to bed, but she dasn't set up.
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