swift是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 快的, 迅速的, 敏捷的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.
-- What did all this portend, and what portended the swift hoisting-up of Monsieur Gabelle behind a servant on horseback, and the conveying away of the said Gabelle (double-laden though the horse was), at a gallop, like a new version of the German ballad of Leonora?
-- Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall, among the old spears and knives, and passed la-menting up the stairs, and shook the curtains of the bed where the last Marquis had slept.
-- The happiness of his own chosen English home, the ne-cessity of being always actively employed, the swift changes and troubles of the time which had followed on one an-other so fast, that the events of this week annihilated the immature plans of last week, and the events of the week fol-lowing made all new again; he knew very well, that to the force of these circumstances he had yielded: not without 343disquiet, but still without continuous and accumulating re-sistance.
-- Rather, they origi-nated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the fog there was the flowing of water, the cracking and floating of ice, the swift rush of turbid, foaming torrents; and on the following Monday, in the evening, the fog parted, the storm clouds split up into little curling crests of cloud, the sky cleared, and the real spring had come.
-- There was the report of four shots, and like swallows the snipe turned swift somersaults in the air and vanished from sight.
-- "Tonight, at one o'clock," she whispered, and, with a heavy sigh, she walked with her light, swift step to meet her son.
-- He could not yet make out what had happened, when the white legs of a chestnut horse flashed by close to him, and Mahotin passed at a swift gallop.
-- Directly she had gone out, swift, swift light steps sounded on the parquet, and his bliss, his life, himself--what was best in himself, what he had so long sought and longed for--was quickly, so quickly approaching him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skilful Parsee; but they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.
-- "Is your vessel a swift one?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had studied the forms of bacteria, they had handled Petri dishes and platinum loops, they had proudly grown on potato slices the harmless red cultures of Bacillus prodigiosus, and they had come now to pathogenic germs and the inoculation of a living animal with swift disease.
-- Drinking steadily, only half- conscious of whither he was going, of what he desired to do, shamefully haunted by Leora and Clif and the swift hands of Gottlieb, he flitted from Zenith to the city of Sparta, across to Ohio, up into Michigan, west to Illinois.
-- The surgeon, in long white gown, white turban, and pale orange rubber gloves, made his swift incision in the square of yellowish flesh exposed between towels, cutting deep into layers of fat, and Martin looked on unmoved as the first blood menacingly followed the cut.
-- III In the Dawson Hunziker building, Gottlieb found such laboratories as he had never planned, and instead of student assistants he had an expert who himself had taught bacteriology, as well as three swift technicians, one of them German-trained.
-- His swift pencil was sketching the cerebrum; the brain lived and beat under his fingers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The swift music of her heart became hubbub now, and she throbbed to extremity.
-- The least spark would kindle the farmer's swift feelings of rage and jealousy; he would lose his self-mastery as he had this evening; Troy's blitheness might become aggressive; it might take the direction of derision, and Boldwood's anger might then take the direction of revenge.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This swift comparison between his present condition and the aims he had in view helped to benumb his faculties.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from thehouse and she slowed her swift pace.
-- When Ellen was dressing for a ball or for guests or even to go toJonesboro for Court Day, it frequently required two hours, two maids and Mammy to turn her out to her ownsatisfaction; but her swift toilets in times of emergency were amazing.
-- Charles gave a swift look about him, drew in his breath, stiffened the muscles of his stomach.
-- Love triumphed as he realizedthat it was enough for a girl to be sweet and gentle and beautiful, without having an education to hamper her charms,and he made swift answer: "The Borgias were Italians."
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