boom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 发出隆隆声; vi. /n. (商业等的) 景气, 繁荣，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：
-- A few seconds, and the heavy boom of the cannon came across the water and died away on the shore.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment a dull boom was heard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flashing weapons, blaz-ing torches, smoking waggonloads of wet straw, hard work at neighbouring barricades in all directions, shrieks, vol-leys, execrations, bravery without stint, boom smash and rattle, and the furious sounding of the living sea; but, still the deep ditch, and the single drawbridge, and the massive stone walls, and the eight great towers, and still Defarge of the wine-shop at his gun, grown doubly hot by the service of Four fierce hours.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forward a few strides, and the thumping would change to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in a minute or two the boom of feet on hard earth began again.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They heard Dr. Carr, to the pale admiration of the school-bound assistant professors, boom genially of working with Schmiedeberg in Germany on the isolation of dihydroxypentamethylendiamin, of the possibilities of chemotherapy, of the immediate cure of sleeping sickness, of the era of scientific healing.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were sounds of singing, of clarionet and violin, and the boom of a Turkish drum.
-- Svidriga脙炉lov, bending down with elbows on the window-sill, gazed for five min-utes into the darkness; the boom of a cannon, followed by a second one, resounded in the darkness of the night.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning wind began to boom dully over the flats, and to move afresh dead leaves which had lain still since yesterday.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rocks of the Spy-glass re-echoed it a score of times; the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.
-- For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling like a vicious horse, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, and the boom swinging to and fro till the mast groaned aloud under the strain.
-- It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin.
-- Of course, when the schooner canted over, the boom had swung out-board, and the cap of it and a foot or two of sail hung even under water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In effect, we had not walked many yards further, when the well-remembered boom came towards us, deadened by the mist, and heavily rolled away along the low grounds by the river, as if it were pursuing and threatening the fugitives.
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：
-- She could not bear the terrible crushing boom of the escaping water.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.
-- But folks talk so much, of course there was a boom dur-ing the war.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.
-- The poor fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly, was swept overboard; all hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it, seemed madness.
-- Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale.
-- In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sailed with what we call a shoulder-of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him to lie, with a slave or two, and a table to eat on, with some small lockers to put in some bottles of such liquor as he thought fit to drink; and his bread, rice, and coffee.
-- However, I found two pieces which appeared pretty good, and with these I went to work; and with a great deal of pains, and awkward stitching, you may be sure, for want of needles, I at length made a three-cornered ugly thing, like what we call in England a shoulder-of-mutton sail, to go with a boom at bottom, and a little short sprit at the top, such as usually our ships' long-boats sail with, and such as I best knew how to manage, as it was such a one as I had to the boat in which I made my escape from Barbary, as relat-ed in the first part of my story.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom boom boom twelve licks; and all still again stiller than ever.
-- We judged we could make miles enough that night to get out of the reach of the powwow we reckoned the duke's work in the printing office was going to make in that little town; then we could boom right along if we wanted to.
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