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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forth-with there came the swift patter of soft feet in pursuit.
-- Then his swift roving glance went round again; he made a swift movement and vanished.
-- I am told that even now my eyes have a strange brightness, a swift alertness of movement.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the next instant the form of Chingachgook appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint, and glided across the path in swift pursuit.
-- For many minutes the struggle between the light bubble in which they floated and the swift current was severe and doubtful.
-- While the words were still on the lips of Heyward, there had arisen such a tumult of yells and cries as served to drive the swift currents of his own blood back from its bounding course into the fountains of his heart.
-- It would seem that interest in the result had kept the natives on the opposite shores in breath- less suspense, while the quick evolutions and swift changes in the positions of the combatants effectually prevented a fire that might prove dangerous alike to friend and en- emy.
-- It was followed by the swift flashes of the rifles, which sent their leaden messengers across the rock in volleys, as though the assailants would pour out their impo- tent fury on the insensible scene of the fatal contest.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She fled, swift of foot and desperate, but he gained on her step by step, till she felt his hot breath on her neck; and still she fled silently, and silently he pursued, and when at last he seized her was it terror that thrilled her heart or was it ecstasy?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were foxes, but of a very large size, who uttered a sort of barking, at which Top seemed to be very much astonished, for he stopped short in the chase, and gave the swift animals time to disappear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this view he gave his unoccupied hand to Nell, and bidding her be of good cheer as they would soon be at the end of their journey for that night, and stimulating the old man with a similar assurance, led them at a pretty swift pace towards their destination, which he was the less unwilling to make for, as the moon was now overcast and the clouds were threatening rain.
-- Carrying her as tenderly, and as easily too, as if she had been an infant, and showing himself both swift and sure of foot, he led the way through what appeared to be the poorest and most wretched quarter of the town; and turning aside to avoid the overflowing kennels or running waterspouts, but holding his course, regardless of such obstructions, and making his way straight through them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff was a swift runner; he wished to out-distance the artist, and ran with all his might.
-- She uttered an exclamation, and with a swift movement, releasing her hand, she ran in the direction of the crowd.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.
-- Well, while things stood thus, suddenly the Hispaniola struck, staggered, ground for an instant in the sand, and then, swift as a blow, canted over to the port side till the deck stood at an angle of forty-five degrees and about a puncheon of water splashed into the scupper holes and lay, in a pool, between the deck and bulwark.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw there in the midst of this fire that burns not the swift and elegant porpoise (the indefatigable clown of the ocean), and some swordfish ten feet long, those prophetic heralds of the hurricane whose formidable sword would now and then strike the glass of the saloon.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- came her strange, intaken cry, as, on the reflex, she started, turned and fled, scudding with an unthinkable swift beating of her white feet and fraying of her white garments, towards the church.
-- There was a great rustling of skirts, swift glimpses of smartly-dressed women, a child danced through the hall and back again, a maidservant came and went hurriedly.
-- Suddenly, from the boat-house, a white figure ran out, frightening in its swift sharp transit, across the old landing-stage.
-- "Nothing," cried Gudrun, in swift refutation.
-- Then she had rushed in a soft swift rush, half way down the garden.
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