boat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小船， 艇，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Icould not help fancying now, that it moaned of those who weregone; and instead of thinking that the sea might rise in the nightand float the boat away, I thought of the sea that had risen, since Ilast heard those sounds, and drowned my happy home.
-- Well, we came to the old boat again in good time at night; andthere Mr. and Mrs. Barkis bade us good-bye, and drove awaysnugly to their own home.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a boat of any kind was at present within sight, but far in the distance Budmouth lay upon the sea, as it were quietly regarding his efforts, and beside the town the harbour showed its position by a dim meshwork of ropes and spars.
-- While the swimmer's eyes were fixed upon the spit as his only means of salvation on this side of the Unknown, a moving object broke the outline of the extremity, and immediately a ship's boat appeared manned with several sailor lads, her bows towards the sea.
-- Backing their oars and putting the boat about, they pulled towards him with a will, and in five or six minutes from the time of his first halloo, two of the sailors hauled him in over the stern.
-- Troy read the articles and joined, but before they sailed a boat was despatched across the bay to Lulwind cove; as he had half expected, his clothes were gone.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I could not pass through the town, I was obliged to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plainpalais.
-- Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water.
-- Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to 102 Frankensteinmy own miserable reflections.
-- We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasbourg to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
-- Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, last month I sailed my boat right intoNew York harbor and took on a cargo."
-- I run my boat into New York, buy from Yankee firms, sub rosa, of course,and away I go.
-- He had never lost a boat or even been forced to dump acargo.
-- At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now,when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.
-- A pagan hearing the lapping of thewaters around Charon's boat could not have felt more desolate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boat had returned, and his guard were ready, so we followed him to the landing-place made of rough stakes and stones, and saw him put into the boat, which was rowed by a crew of convicts like himself.
-- No one seemed surprised to see him, or interested in seeing him, or glad to see him, or sorry to see him, or spoke a word, except that somebody in the boat growled as if to dogs, "Give way, you!"
-- We saw the boat go alongside, and we saw him taken up the side and disappear.
-- It was but natural that I should take to him much more kindly than to Drummle, and that, even in the earliest evenings of our boating, he and I should pull homeward abreast of one another, conversing from boat to boat, while Bentley Drummle came up in our wake alone, under the overhanging banks and among the rushes.
-- In my fancy, I saw the boat with its convict crew waiting for them at the slime-washed stairs,--again heard the gruff "Give way, you!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat with the youngest.
-- As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, 'I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.'
-- The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest prin-cess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.
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