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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the prin-cess.
-- So the tailor took his needle, and with a few large stitches put some of the planks together; and he sat down upon these, and sailed about and gathered up all pieces of the boat; and then tacked them together so quickly that the boat was soon ready, and they then reached the ship and got home safe.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock.
-- We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.
-- hree days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to Tthe north- east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
-- In this necessity I was forced to swim be-hind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I advanced so far that I could just hold up my chin and feel the ground.
-- I rested two or three minutes, and then gave the boat another shove, and so on, till the sea was no higher than my arm-pits; and now, the most laborious part being over, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them first to the boat, and then to nine of the vessels which attended me; the wind being favourable, the seamen towed, and I shoved, until we arrived within forty yards of the shore; and, waiting till the tide was out, I got dry to the boat, and by the assistance of two thousand men, with ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it on its bot-tom, and found it was but little damaged.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle at once ordered me to turn my steps that way, and accordingly we went on board the steam ferry boat which does duty on the canal, and very soon reached the noted dockyard quay.
-- Then without further remark, he put his finger to his lips, frowned darkly, and descended into the small boat which awaited us.
-- "We have not an available boat in all Reykjavik," replied the other.
-- "Der," answered Hans, pointing to where lay the boat in question--"there."
-- My uncle frowned, stamped his feet and then followed the horses to where the boat lay.
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：
-- She had been fastened by a rope, and jagging and snarring like a boat at its moorings; now she was loose and adrift.
-- He was a sandola man, a sandola being a big boat that brings in fruit and produce from the islands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a triumphant air:'Here I am!See me!Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler; shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.
-- The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up the steps, and all the impounded travellers congregated together.
-- 'When the boat came up from Lyons, and brought the news that the devil was actually let loose at Marseilles, some fly-catchers swallowed it.
-- 'Romance, however,' Flora went on, busily arranging Mr F.'s Aunt's toast, 'as I openly said to Mr F. when he proposed to me and you will be surprised to hear that he proposed seven times once in a hackney-coach once in a boat once in a pew once on a donkey at Tunbridge Wells and the rest on his knees, Romance was fled with the early days of Arthur Clennam, our parents tore us asunder we became marble and stern reality usurped the throne, Mr F. said very much to his credit that he was perfectly aware of it and even preferred that state of things accordingly the word was spoken the fiat went forth and such is life you see my dear and yet we do not break but bend, pray make a good breakfast while I go in with the tray.'
-- Social people in other gondolas began to ask each other who the little solitary girl was whom they passed, sitting in her boat with folded hands, looking so pensively and wonderingly about her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew Vevay well, and as soon as the boat touched the little quay, he hurried along the shore to La Tour, where the Carrols were living en pension.
-- There's room enough, though I have to sit nearly in the middle, else the boat won't trim,' returned Laurie, as if he rather liked the arrangment.
-- She rowed as well as she did many other things, and though she used both hands, and Lau-rie but one, the oars kept time, and the boat went smoothly through the water.
-- It would break my heart if you didn't believe that I'd gladly pull in the same boat with you, even if you had to get your living by rowing on the lake.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833.
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