flight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 飞翔， 飞行； 航班； 航程； 逃跑； 楼梯的一段，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：
-- Glenarvan returned to the CASUCHA more uneasy than ever, questioning within himself as to the connection between these sounds and the flight of the guanacos.
-- The condor was encircling in his flight a sort of inaccessible plateau about a quarter of a mile up the side of the mountain.
-- A south or southwest wind generally puts to flight these little pests.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Meg ran down to perform these little ceremonies, and then to follow her mother wherever she went, conscious that in spite of the smiles on the motherly face, there was a secret sorrow hid in the motherly heart at the flight of the first bird from the nest.
-- His meals were interrupted by the frequent flight of the pre-siding genius, who deserted him, half-helped, if a muffled chirp sounded from the nest above.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
-- For in his Natural History, the Baron himself affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish (sharks included) are "struck with the most lively terrors," and "often in the precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against the rocks with such violence as to cause instantaneous death."
-- Riotous and disordered as the universal commotion now was, it soon resolved itself into what seemed a systematic movement; for having clumped together at last in one dense body, they then renewed their onward flight with augmented fleetness.
-- In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this, the undertaker's wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark: forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated 'kitchen'; wherein sat a slatternly girl, in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.
-- There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
-- On one occasion, indeed, he even went so far as to knock them both down a flight of stairs; but this was carrying out his virtuous precepts to an unusual extent.
-- The young gentleman did not stop to bestow any other mark of recognition upon Oliver than a humourous grin; but, turning away, beckoned the visitors to follow him down a flight of stairs.
-- Master Bates nodded assent, and would have spoken, but the recollection of Oliver's flight came so suddenly upon him, that the smoke he was inhaling got entangled with a laugh, and went up into his head, and down into his throat: and brought on a fit of coughing and stamping, about five minutes long.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had scarcely needed her present observation to be satisfied, from the reason of things, that their elopement had been brought on by the strength of her love, rather than by his; and she would have wondered why, without violently caring for her, he chose to elope with her at all, had she not felt certain that his flight was rendered necessary by distress of circum-stances; and if that were the case, he was not the young man to resist an opportunity of having a companion.
-- He confessed himself obliged to leave the regi-ment, on account of some debts of honour, which were very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill-consequences of Lydia's flight on her own folly alone.
-- But NOW suppose as much as you choose; give a loose rein to your fancy, indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford, and unless you believe me actually married, you cannot greatly err.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true, when I got on shore first here, and found all my ship's crew drowned and myself spared, I was surprised with a kind of ecstasy, and some transports of soul, which, had the grace of God assisted, might have come up to true thankfulness; but it ended where it began, in a mere com-mon flight of joy, or, as I may say, being glad I was alive, without the least reflection upon the distinguished good-ness of the hand which had preserved me, and had singled me out to be preserved when all the rest were destroyed, or an inquiry why Providence had been thus merciful unto me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her feet carried her mechanically forward, every foot of her progress being a satisfactory portion of a flight which she gladly made.
-- His own deed and present flight were the great shadows which weighed upon him.
-- This eastward flight from all things customary and attached seemed as if it might have happiness in store.
-- Hurstwood ascended a dusty flight of steps and entered a small, dust-coloured office, in which were a railing, a long desk, and several clerks.
-- Could it be he would refer so rudely to Hurstwood's flight with her?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the signal, a loud whirr of wings in quick flight was heard and a large Falcon came and settled itself on the window ledge.
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