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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gave the yacht such swiftness that during her trial trip in the Firth of Clyde, she made seventeen miles an hour, a higher speed than any vessel had yet attained.
-- "This vessel is not the SCOTIA."
-- That is vexing, too, for you would find it dull work waiting for a vessel in the Peak of Teneriffe."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen.
-- When they reached the wide-stretching host of the Achaeans, they drew the vessel ashore, high and dry upon the sands, set her strong props beneath her, and went their ways to their own tents and ships.
-- Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze.
-- First she set for them a fair and well-made table that had feet of cyanus; on it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barley-meal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought some drink might revive him; but there was neither drink nor vessel in which to bring drink at hand.
-- The only insurmountable obstacle was that I had no vessel to contain the water I should need if I floated forth upon these untravelled seas.
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 scout directed Heyward and his disconsolate fellow travelers to seat them-selves in the forward end of the canoe, and took possession of the other himself, as erect and steady as if he floated in a vessel of much firmer materials.
-- Placing their arms in the little vessel a dozen men clinging to its sides had trusted themselves to the direction of the canoe, which was controlled by two of the most skillful warriors, in attitudes that enabled them to command a view of the dangerous pas-sage.
-- When the pilot chosen for the task of guiding the canoe had taken his station, the whole band plunged again into the river, the vessel glided down the current, and in a few moments the captives found themselves on the south bank of the stream, nearly opposite to the point where they had struck it the preceding evening.
-- Chingachgook laid aside his paddle; while Uncas and the scout urged the light vessel through crooked and intri-cate channels, where every foot that they advanced exposed them to the danger of some sudden rising on their progress.
-- The scout laughed aloud a noise that produced the startling effect of an unnatural sound on Heyward; then dropping the piece, heavily, into his extended left hand, it was discharged, apparently by the shock, driving the frag-ments of the vessel into the air, and scattering them on every side.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
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：
-- Strickland's idea was to ship on some vessel bound for Australia or New Zealand, and from there make his way to Samoa or Tahiti.
-- He worked his passage on a sailing vessel that was making the trip from Auckland to San Francisco, and he arrived with a box of paints, an easel, and a dozen canvases.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert and Neb climbed a high rock to survey the sea, but there was nothing in sight neither a dismasted vessel nor a ship under sail.
-- It was evident that this chest had been thrown overboard from some dismasted vessel driven towards the island, and that, in the hope that it would reach the land, where they might afterwards find it, the passengers had taken the precaution to buoy it up by means of this floating apparatus.
-- "And for a certainty," added Herbert, "the vessel which carried this chest and its owner was not a Malay pirate!"
-- "It is more probable that an American or European vessel has been driven into this quarter, and that her passengers, wishing to save necessaries at least, prepared this chest and threw it overboard."
-- There was nothing, therefore, on these different articles by which they could be traced, and nothing consequently of a nature to show the nationality of the vessel which must have recently passed these shores.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nodding his approval of this decisive and manly course of procedure, the landlord retired to draw the beer, and presently returning with it, applied himself to warm the same in a small tin vessel shaped funnel-wise, for the convenience of sticking it far down in the fire and getting at the bright places.
-- After pondering deeply and with a face of exceeding wisdom for some time, Mr Swiveller drank some more of the beer, and summoning a small boy who had been watching his proceedings, poured forth the few remaining drops as a libation on the gravel, and bade him carry the empty vessel to the bar with his compliments, and above all things to lead a sober and temperate life, and abstain from all intoxicating and exciting liquors.
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