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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places.
-- If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death.
-- Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live swear that he shall not 258 Frankensteintriumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could swear she wasglad to see us when we came and was aiming to ask us to supper."
-- I swear I don't want to go home and listen to Matake on about us being expelled.
-- He would ruin his new gray broadcloth suit, which would cause him to swear horribly in the morning and tellEllen at great length how his horse fell off the bridge in the darkness a palpable lie which would fool no one butwhich would be accepted by all and make him feel very clever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why, see what a letter you wrote last night!Wrote in print even!I've seen letters--Ah!and from gentlefolks!--that I'll swear weren't wrote in print," said Joe.
-- "And so I swear it is Death," said he, putting his pipe back in his mouth, "and Death by the rope, in the open street not fur from this, and it's serious that you should fully understand it to be so.
-- To state that my terrible patron carried this little black book about the world solely to swear people on in cases of emergency, would be to state what I never quite established; but this I can say, that I never knew him put it to any other use.
-- On this first occasion of his producing it, I recalled how he had made me swear fidelity in the churchyard long ago, and how he had described himself last night as always swearing to his resolutions in his solitude.
-- Old Barley might be as old as the hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His answer, as I could comprehend it, was, 'that this must be a work of time, not to be thought on without the advice of his council, and that first I must lumos kelmin pesso desmar lon emposo;' that is, swear a peace with him and his kingdom.
-- After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of 44 Gulliver's Travelsmy right ear.
-- This they made me swear to do, and then they unbound me, only fastening one of my legs with a chain, near my bed, and placed a sentry at my door with his piece charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead if I attempted my liberty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, when that time is expired, I have not found the water of which we are in search, I swear to you, I will give up my mighty enterprise and return to the earth's surface."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All he wanted was for Connie to swear, to swear not to leave him, not to give him away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I swear it!'
-- To save you from exposure, his father shall swear never to see or communicate with you more; equally to save him from being stripped by his uncle, and to save your child from being a beggar, you shall swear never to see or communicate with either of them more.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a man of us turns to, unless you swear not to raise a rope-yarn against us.
-- As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six days.
-- "Cook," here interposed Stubb, accompanying the word with a sudden slap on the shoulder, "Cook!why, damn your eyes, you mustn't swear that way when you're preaching.
-- But a day or two after, you look about you, and prick your ears in this self-same ship; and were it not for the tell-tale boats and try-works, you would all but swear you trod some silent merchant vessel, with a most scrupulously neat commander.
-- But more I marvelled that the priests should swear that smoky jet of his was genuine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I swear it before the God that saw it!They starved her!'
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