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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we get below, we shall find BAQUEANOS, Argentine shepherds, who will guide us through the Pampas, and swift horses accustomed to gallop over the plains.
-- Almost breathless with the swift motion, frozen with the cold air, which pierced them through, and blinded with the whirling snow, they gasped for breath, and became exhausted and nearly inanimate, only retaining their hold of the rocks by a powerful instinct of self-preservation.
-- The yacht turned about like a swift horse that feels the spur, and presented a broadside to the billows.
-- As soon as the DUNCAN had re-provisioned, she sailed along the coast of Patagonia, doubled Cape Horn, and made a swift run up the Atlantic Ocean.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me.
-- The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the more intimate acquaintance of my two com-panions and in playing with Dr. Mortimer's spaniel.
-- We were both swift runners and in fairly good training, but we soon found that we had no chance of overtaking him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the two, swift Ajax son of Oileus was the first to know who it was that had been speaking with them, and said to Ajax son of Telamon, 'Ajax, this is one of the gods that dwell on Olympus, who in the likeness of the prophet is bidding us fight hard by our ships.
-- Swift as the thought of one whose fan-cy carries him over vast continents, and he says to himself, 'Now I will be here, or there,' and he would have all manner of things even so swiftly did Juno wing her way till she came to high Olympus and went in among the gods who were gathered in the house of Jove.
-- The son of Peleus dart-ed away a spear's throw from him; swift as the swoop of a black hunter-eagle which is the strongest and fleetest of all birds, even so did he spring forward, and the armour rang loudly about his breast.
-- Her swift ar-rows were shed upon the ground, and she fled weeping from under Juno's hand as a dove that flies before a falcon to the cleft of some hollow rock, when it is her good fortune to es-cape.
-- Pray to the son of Sat-urn lord of the whirlwind, who sits on Ida and looks down over all Troy, pray him to send his swift messenger on your right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to him of all birds, that you may see it with your own eyes and trust it as you go forth to the ships of the Danaans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was all the business of a swift half-minute.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun had set some minutes since, the swift dusk of the tropics was already fading out of the east-ern sky, and a pioneer moth fluttered silently by my head.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gazed at the green landscape, now passing in swift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impression with vague conjectures of what Chicago might be.
-- With ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her meagre four-fifty per week with a swift and graceful hand.
-- In return, a swift fist landed on the officer's neck.
-- A heavy snow was falling--a fine picking, whipping snow, borne forward by a swift wind in long, thin lines.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle- box, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.
-- The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river soft- ened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a woodyard, likely, and piled by them cheats so you can throw a dog through it anywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there, so cool and fresh and sweet to smell on account of the woods and the flowers; but sometimes not that way, because they've left dead fish laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank; and next you've got the full day, and every- thing smiling in the sun, and the song-birds just going it!
-- I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin.
-- But we got under all right, and out through the hole, swift but soft Jim first, me next, and Tom last, which was according to Tom's orders.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This said, he took the path at so swift a gait that he seemed to fly, and at every small sound he heard, he turned in fear to see whether the Terrible Shark, five stories high and with a train in his mouth, was following him.
-- But Pinocchio was keen of eye and swift of movement, and the books only passed over his head, landed in the sea, and disappeared.
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