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 if it had not been for my mother, I should have shown him the way out, long ago.
-- 'Send me back then this one word of sympathy, only sympathy, I swear to you; and oh!do not be angry with the audacity of despair, with the drowning man who has dared to make this last effort to save himself from perishing be-neath the waters.
-- 'I haven't the slightest knowledge of any such IOU's as she mentioned, I swear I haven't What's the matter, are you fainting?'
-- I enjoyed a discussion over him till three o'clock in the morning, with Lebedeff; and then ... then I swear by all I hold sacred that I am telling you the truth then I wished to develop my soul in this frank and heartfelt confession to you.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus: 'Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in sub-jection.
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy, while the others go home to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.'
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his own home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace.'
-- Moreover, you shall bid Priam come, that he may swear to the covenant himself; for his sons are high-handed and ill to trust, and the oaths of Jove must not be transgressed or taken in vain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
-- "I swear I didn't.
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：
-- 'The light eyes can go back to the Horican, and tell the old chief what has been done, if the dark-haired woman will swear by the Great Spirit of her fathers to tell no lie.'
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：
-- I could swear I've lived here before."
-- I swear it by God."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very good, Herbert," replied Pencroft, "but I could swear that all those useful specimens you have just told us about are none of them giants like these!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bah!You would swear away my life if you could,' returned the other, after bestowing a stare and a frown on me; 'we all know that!'
-- I swear to you,' continued the dwarf dismounting from the chair and sitting down in it, with a careful slowness of gesture very different from the rapidity with which he had sprung up unheard, 'I swear to you that I had no idea old blood ran so fast or kept so warm.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he straightened his sleeve and called on the priest to swear in the jury.
-- "Now repeat after me: 'I promise and swear by the Almighty God, His Holy Gospel, and by the life-giving cross of our Lord, that in the case'"--he continued, resting after each phrase.
-- "I swear by God I know nothing about it!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, she's a handsome craft, she is," the cook would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, and then the bird would peck at the bars and swear straight on, passing belief for wickedness.
-- She would swear the same, in a manner of speaking, before chaplain."
-- If it ain't no good to swear by, what do you suppose a sperrit would give for it?
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：
-- "You know how the old German knights used to swear a Blutbruderschaft," he said to Gerald, with quite a new happy activity in his eyes.
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