vessel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 容器, 船，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain as often as possible put up his sails, and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China.
-- A sort of tempest arose on the 3rd of November, the squall knocking the vessel about with fury, and the waves running high.
-- For three hours Phileas Fogg wandered about the docks, with the determination, if necessary, to charter a vessel to carry him to Yokohama; but he could only find vessels which were loading or unloading, and which could not therefore set sail.
-- From time to time the coast was visible through the broken mist, but no vessel was in sight.
-- "Is your vessel a swift one?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transportswith the room that was revealed to him; and when I heated thecoffee in an unassuming blocktin vessel in which Mrs. Cruppdelighted to prepare it (chiefly, I believe, because it was notintended for the purpose, being a shaving-pot, and because therewas a patent invention of great price mouldering away in thepantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully havescalded him.
-- If he were at sea that night, and near a dangerous coast, as it issaid he was; and if the vessel that was seen should really be theship which-' 'Rosa!'
-- Three years hadelapsed since the sailing of the emigrant ship; when, at that samehour of sunset, and in the same place, I stood on the deck of thepacket vessel that brought me home, looking on the rosy waterwhere I had seen the image of that ship reflected.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Drink, Henry Fray drink," magnanimously said Jan Coggan, a person who held Saint-Simonian notions of share and share alike where liquor was concerned, as the vessel showed signs of approaching him in its gradual revolution among them.
-- Lending him what little clothing they could spare among them as a slight protection against the rapidly cooling air, they agreed to land him in the morning; and without further delay, for it was growing late, they made again towards the roadstead where their vessel lay.
-- The cluck of their oars was the only sound of any distinctness upon the sea, and as they laboured amid the thickening shades the lamp-lights grew larger, each appearing to send a flaming sword deep down into the waves before it, until there arose, among other dim shapes of the kind, the form of the vessel for which they were bound.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Eugene to himself, as he remembered how he had watched his neighbor work the silver vessel into a shapeless mass that night.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.
-- You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a 15question addressed to me from a man on the brink of de-struction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
-- Strange and harrow-ing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it thus!
-- 'A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apart-ment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Con-stantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she could doalmost as she pleased, Pittypat being the weak vessel that she was.
-- Feeling that she would burst a blood vessel if she stayed another minute, she stormed up the stairs.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, however, both their majesties would soon be made easy; for I had found a prodigious vessel on the shore, able to carry me on the sea, which he had given orders to fit up, with my 90 Gulliver's Travelsown assistance and direction; and he hoped, in a few weeks, both empires would be freed from so insupportable an en-cumbrance.'
-- I told him, 'that since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way, I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.'
-- The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held about two gallons, and filled it with drink; I took up the vessel with much difficulty in both hands, and in a most respectful manner drank to her ladyship's health, express-ing the words as loud as I could in English, which made the company laugh so heartily, that I was almost deafened with the noise.
-- The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hol-low vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child's waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.
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