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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, yes; I can swear to it!My sister heard it, and recognized it as well.
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：
-- Could you swear to that man's face within the cab?'
-- 'I could swear only to the beard.'
-- 'I can swear to one thing, and that is that we have not been shadowed during the last two days.
-- 'I never saw a Devonshire man who did not swear by his county,' I remarked.
-- 'It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here!Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I swear I was all of a blaze at once.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Swear him!'
-- 'Swear this person!'
-- Swear him.'
-- Here, swear this policeman.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was gone, I turned to the boy, whom they called Xury, and said to him, 'Xury, if you will be faithful to me, I'll make you a great man; but if you will not stroke your face to be true to me' - that is, swear by Ma-homet and his father's beard - 'I must throw you into the sea too.'
-- no, nor to mention the name of God, unless it was to swear by, and blaspheme it.
-- He answered, with a great deal of candour and ingen-uousness, that their condition was so miserable, and that they were so sensible of it, that he believed they would abhor the thought of using any man unkindly that should contrib-ute to their deliverance; and that, if I pleased, he would go to them with the old man, and discourse with them about it, and return again and bring me their answer; that he would make conditions with them upon their solemn oath, that they should be absolutely under my direction as their commander and captain; and they should swear upon the holy sacraments and gospel to be true to me, and go to such Christian country as I should agree to, and no other; and to be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders till they were landed safely in such country as I intended, and that he would bring a contract from them, under their hands, for that purpose.
-- Then he told me he would first swear to me himself that he would never stir from me as long as he lived till I gave him orders; and that he would take my side to the last drop of his blood, if there should happen the least breach of faith among his countrymen.
-- I gave him a strict charge not to bring any man who would not first swear in the presence of himself and the old savage that he would in no way injure, fight with, or attack the person he should find in the island, who was so kind as to send for them in order to their deliverance; but that they would stand by him and defend him against all such attempts, and wherever they went would be entirely under and subjected to his command; and that this should be put in writing, and signed in their hands.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began to cry and swear foolishly.
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 to a clump of bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of the bushes.
-- I says, all right, and was going to start for the raft; but just then I heard a voice wail out and say: 'Oh, please don't, boys; I swear I won't ever tell!'
-- I could swear they was beats and bummers, that's all, though that's worth something.
-- Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and ev-erywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don't give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.
-- And twice I went down the rod away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do some-thing for her, but I couldn't, only to swear that I wouldn't never do nothing to grieve her any more.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I swear to you I did not do it!"
-- "From now on," said the man, horrified, "I swear I shall never again taste fish.
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