swear是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 郑重地说; 强调; 发誓，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：
-- Swear it was not true?
-- Swear that?
-- It ought to be, it must be, I'll swear it's there.'
-- Villain Foulon taken, my sis-ter!Old Foulon taken, my mother!Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and scream-ing, Foulon alive!Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass!Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want!O mother of God, this Foulon!O Heaven our suffering!Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Fou-lon!Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him!With these cries, numbers of the wom-en, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a pas-sionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot.
-- I solemnly swear to you that I know of no harm having happened to Charles; that I had no suspicion even of his being in this fatal place.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But didn't he only yesterday swear he loved me, he, a truthful and sincere man?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mew, my lord!What, a rabbit mew!I swear to you ""Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats were formerly considered, in India, as sacred animals.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No!I swear it isn't because I can bully you, Leora--I swear it isn't--I don't think it is.
-- Oh, Sandy, do curse and swear some at meals."
-- may not have a lot of letters after his name, but he sees a slew of mysterious things that he can't explain, and I swear I believe most of these damn' alleged scientists could learn a whale of a lot from the plain country practitioners, let me tell you!"
-- Oof!Lecturing!I swear I will give it up.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and then he was tempted to swear at them, to jeer at them, while they could not open the door!
-- But I swear I judge her intellectually, simply from the metaphysical point of view; there is a sort of symbol-ism sprung up between us, a sort of algebra or what not!I don't understand it!Well, that's all nonsense.
-- And there are a dozen witnesses to swear to that!'
-- And in one flash he recalled with extraordinary vividness of sensation a moment in the recent past, that moment when he stood with the axe behind the door, while the latch trem-bled and the men outside swore and shook it, and he had a sudden desire to shout at them, to swear at them, to put out his tongue at them, to mock them, to laugh, and laugh, and laugh!
-- Then I'll run home in a twinkling I've a lot of friends there, all drunk I'll fetch Zossimov that's the doctor who is looking after him, he is there, too, but he is not drunk; he is not drunk, he is never drunk!I'll drag him to Rodya, and then to you, so that you'll get two reports in the hour from the doctor, you understand, from the doctor himself, that's a very different thing from my account of him!If there's anything wrong, I swear I'll bring you here myself, but, if it's all right, you go to bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it were not that I mightappear to disparage her intended, which I know my friend wouldnot like, I would add, that to me she seems to be throwing herselfaway; that I am sure she might do better; and that I swear she wasborn to be a lady.'
-- She puther hand upon it hurriedly- a hand so thin and delicate, that whenI had seen her hold it up before the fire to shade her face, I hadcompared it in my thoughts to fine porcelain- and saying, in aquick, fierce, passionate way, 'I swear you to secrecy about this!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Solemnly swear to me that he's not a fast man; that it is all lies they say about him!"
-- "That's our Dainty I'll swear to her step," said Jan."Mighty me!Won't mis'ess storm and call us stupids when she comes back!"
-- "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
-- "Now, Cain Ball," said Gabriel restlessly, "can you swear in the most awful form that the woman you saw was Miss Everdene?"
-- Now, before all the work-folk here assembled, can you swear to your words as the shepherd asks ye?"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will revenge my in-juries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
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