saw是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 锯子， 锯床v. 锯， 锯开，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea.
-- I went up in it to a bit of glass stuck against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my life.
-- At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.
-- The undertaker at once saw enough of what the room contained, to know it was the apartment to which he had been directed.
-- I swear it before the God that saw it!They starved her!'
-- The crazy old woman was too much occupied in bewailing the loss of her cloak (which the undertaker had taken off), to pay him any attention; so they threw a can of cold water over him; and when he came to, saw him safely out of the churchyard, locked the gate, and departed on their different ways.
-- Having rested here, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of s obs and an imposing show of tears and terror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and presented such a rueful face to the aged pauper who opened it, that even he, who saw nothing but rueful faces about him at the best of times, started back in astonishment.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father.
-- I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.
-- 'He is just what a young man ought to be,' said she, 'sen- sible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! so much ease, with such perfect good breed- ing!'
-- 'I certainly saw Mr. Darcy speaking to her.'
-- By Jane, this attention was received with the greatest pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hard- ly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value as arising in all probability from the influence of their brother's ad- miration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mother, breaking out again, "when I saw all those children ranged tier above tier, and appealing from the father none of them has ever known on earth, to the great Father of us all in Heaven, I thought, does any wretched mother ever come here, and look among those young faces, wondering which is the poor child she brought into this forlorn world, never through all its life to know her love, her kiss, her face, her voice, even her name!"
-- A door stood open, and within she saw the attendant upon the girl she had just left; the maid with the curious name.
-- A moment before, I thought him wandering in his mind, as he had been for many hours I think he had no consciousness of pain in his short illness when I saw him turn himself in his bed and try to open it.'
-- 'It was a girl, surely, whom I saw near you almost hidden in the dark corner?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw anyone faint, and I don't choose to make myself all black and blue, tumbling flat as you do.
-- Amy came in hastily, and looked rather abashed when she saw her sisters all waiting for her.
-- For-tunately it was early, and they went through back streets, so few people saw them, and no one laughed at the queer party.
-- This was a surprise even to the actors, and when they saw the table, they looked at one another in rapturous amaze-ment.
-- 'Our cat ran away once, and he brought her back, and we talked over the fence, and were getting on capitally, all about cricket, and so on, when he saw Meg coming, and walked off.
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