follow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 跟随， 接着； 领会； 沿着…前进， 遵循； 结果是，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far other was Hercules, my own brave and lion-hearted father, who came here for the horses of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilius and made a wilderness of her highways.
-- As a hound grips a wild boar or lion in flank or buttock when he gives him chase, and watches warily for his wheeling, even so did Hector follow close upon the Achaeans, ever killing the hindmost as they rushed pan-ic-stricken onwards.
-- For prayers are as daughters to great Jove; halt, wrinkled, with eyes askance, they follow in the footsteps of sin, who, be-ing fierce and fleet of foot, leaves them far behind him, and ever baneful to mankind outstrips them even to the ends of the world; but nevertheless the prayers come hobbling and healing after.
-- Counsel him wisely, guide him in the right way, and he will follow you to his own prof-it.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the smaller boy was sharp-eyed enough to follow the movement, and before I was well down the steps and upon the pavement, he had recovered from his momentary astonishment and was shouting out that the feet had gone over the wall.
-- "I came forward to follow him, and at the noise of my movement he stopped dead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery's movement to follow me released my at-tention, and I turned and looked about me at the flush deck of the little schooner.
-- I did not turn my head to follow her.
-- So I stood for perhaps a minute, and then, with an eye to the trees still, turned westward to cross the headland; and as I moved, one among the lurking shad-ows moved to follow me.
-- Some want to follow things that move, to watch and slink and wait and spring; to kill and bite, bite deep and rich, sucking the blood.
-- One started to follow me, but retreated again when Montgom-ery cracked his whip.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Never while we can follow a trail,' said the cubs.
-- They may drop him if we follow too close.'
-- 'It it is the Bandar-log that we follow now,' said Baloo, but the words stuck in his throat, for that was the first time in his memory that one of the Jungle-People had owned to being interested in the doings of the monkeys.
-- I ask that I may follow when next he goes abroad.'
-- 'In a little time,' she said, 'you'll know where to swim to, but just now we'll follow Sea Pig, the Porpoise, for he is very wise.'
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：
-- Alice hesitated no longer; but giving her Narrangan-sett* a smart cut of the whip, she was the first to dash aside the slight branches of the bushes, and to follow the runner along the dark and tangled pathway.
-- After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohib-ited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he contin-ued, 'It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those he has to instruct; for which reason I follow not the line of the army; besides which, I conclude that a gentleman of your character has the best judgment in matters of wayfaring; I have, therefore, decided to join company, in order that the ride may be made agreeable, and partake of social communion.'
-- William Henry, man!if you are friends to the king and have business with the army, your way would be to follow the river down to Edward, and lay the matter before Webb, who tarries there, instead of pushing into the defiles, and driv-ing this saucy Frenchman back across Champlain, into his den again.'
-- It was because I suspected him that I would follow no longer; making him, as you see, follow me.'
-- 'Perhaps you understand the compass, and lay down the watercourses and mountains of the wilderness on paper, in order that they who follow may find places by their given names?'
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：
-- An effective story might also have been made by bringing him into contact with some old painter whom the pressure of want or the desire for commercial success had made false to the genius of his youth, and who, seeing in Strickland the possibilities which himself had wasted, influenced him to forsake all and follow the divine tyranny of art.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was no other than Gideon Spilen, a reporter for the New York Herald, who had been ordered to follow the changes of the war in the midst of the Northern armies.
-- But to follow this direction was to go south, exactly opposite to that part of the coast where Harding might have landed.
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