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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, friends, we had better go up on deck, as the boat must be getting near the harbor."
-- Glenarvan had a boat lowered immediately, and went on shore, accompanied by Paganel.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
-- And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- The boat soon picked them up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides,' said the Jew, recovering his self-possession, 'he has us now if he could only give us leg-bail again; and he must be in the same boat with us.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship, who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us.
-- It was with the utmost hazard the boat came near us; but it was impossible for us to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the ship's side, till at last the men rowing very heartily, and venturing their lives to save ours, our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to it, and then veered it out a great length, which they, after much labour and haz-ard, took hold of, and we hauled them close under our stern, and got all into their boat.
-- It was to no purpose for them or us, after we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed to let her drive, and only to pull her in towards shore as much as we could; and our master prom-ised them, that if the boat was staved upon shore, he would make it good to their master: so partly rowing and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping to-wards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness.
-- I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me, partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what was yet before me.
-- While we were in this condition - the men yet labouring at the oar to bring the boat near the shore - we could see (when, our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people running along the strand to assist us when we should come near; but we made but slow way towards the shore; nor were we able to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the shore falls off to the westward towards Cromer, and so the land broke off a little the violence of the wind.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you suppose the boat will sail promptly?"
-- A slow, black boat setting out from the pier at Twenty-seventh Street upon its weekly errand bore, with many others, his nameless body to the Potter's Field.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boat floated on and went out of sight around the shoulder of the island.
-- He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun.
-- I took the canoe out from the shore a little piece, and took a look; but if there was a boat around I couldn't see it, for stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
-- If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the ca-noe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing-line, or anything to eat.
-- I crawfished as fast as I could about two yards, but the boat slanted so that I couldn't make very good time; so to keep from getting run over and catched I crawled into a stateroom on the upper side.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He was building a little boat with which to cross the ocean.
-- "A poor old father lost his only son some time ago and today he built a tiny boat for himself in order to go in search of him across the ocean.
-- Suddenly a huge wave came and the boat disappeared.
-- He looked over the waters to see whether he might catch sight of a boat with a little man in it.
-- You who travel day and night through the sea, did you not perhaps meet a little boat with my father in it?"
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