fleet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 舰队， 船队，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We made a pause at the toy-shop in Fleet Street to see the giants ofSaint Dunstan's strike upon the bells- we had timed our going, soas to catch them at it, at twelve o'clock- and then went on towardsLudgate Hill and St. Paul's Churchyard.
-- He never said a wured to me as warn't as dootiful asdootiful could be, and it ain't likely as he'd begin to speak anyother ways now; but it's fur from being fleet water in his mind,where them thowts lay.
-- 'The ocean, in these times, is a perfect fleet of ships; and we canhardly fail to encounter many, in running over.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you thought thatwe would not have a single warship and that the Yankee fleet could bottle up our harbors in a week, so that we couldnot sell our cotton abroad?
-- Do you recall how he said the Yankee fleet could bottle us up so tightly we could notship out our cotton?
-- Everyone knew now that the fate of the Confederacyrested as much upon the skill of the blockade boats in eluding the Yankee fleet as it did upon the soldiers at the front.
-- The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who couldoutwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XLVTurning from the Temple gate as soon as I had read the warning, I made the best of my way to Fleet Street, and there got a late hackney chariot and drove to the Hummums in Covent Garden.
-- For now the last of the fleet of ships was round the last low point we had headed; and the last green barge, straw-laden, with a brown sail, had followed; and some ballast-lighters, shaped like a child's first rude imitation of a boat, lay low in the mud; and a little squat shoal-lighthouse on open piles stood crippled in the mud on stilts and crutches; and slimy stakes stuck out of the mud, and slimy stones stuck out of the mud, and red landmarks and tidemarks stuck out of the mud, and an old landing-stage and an old roofless building slipped into the mud, and all about us was stagnation and mud.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked 55towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspec-tive glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.
-- I arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.
-- They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to de-scribe or conceive.
-- The emperor con-cluded me to be drowned, and that the enemy's fleet was approaching in a hostile manner: but he was soon eased of his fears; for the channel growing shallower every step I made, I came in a short time within hearing, and hold-ing up the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I cried in a loud voice, 'Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!'
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being af-terwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspi-cious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was made from beams of a very peculiar wood, and a great number of limbs, joints, boughs, and pieces lay about, sufficient to have constructed a fleet of ships and boats.
-- I should not have been surprised to have seen a fleet of native canoes afloat upon that silent sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The admired piratical ship had blown up, in the midst of a vast fleet of ships of all rates, and boats of all sizes; and on the deep was nothing but ruin; nothing but burning hulls, bursting magazines, great guns self-exploded tearing friends and neighbours to pieces, drowning men clinging to unseaworthy spars and going down every minute, spent swimmers, floating dead, and sharks.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie didn't seem to know where to begin, but Jo's eager questions soon set him going, and he told her how he had been at school in Vevay, where the boys never wore hats and had a fleet of boats on the lake, and for holiday fun went on walking trips about Switzerland with their teachers.
-- Mrs. March's warning was evidently thrown away, for five minutes later Laurie tore by the window on his own fleet horse, riding as if for his life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are absent four years with four barrels; no wonder that to many ship owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!
-- Here be it said, that like the vessels of military marines, the ships of the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal; all which signals being collected in a book with the names of the respective vessels attached, every captain is provided with it.
-- As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
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