vow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 誓约, 许愿，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizabetha therefore decided that the prince was impos-sible as a husband for Aglaya; and during the ensuing night she made a vow that never while she lived should he marry Aglaya.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- 'The god,' he said, 'is -angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others.
-- Take your home aim then, and pray to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer; vow that when you get home to your strong city of Zelea you will offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour.'
-- And Hector shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans and allies, be men, my friends, and fight with might and main, while I go to Ilius and tell the old men of our council and our wives to pray to the gods and vow heca-tombs in their honour.'
-- He looked all sorrow-fully out upon the dark sea, and said, 'Spercheius, in vain did my father Peleus vow to you that when I returned home to my loved native land I should cut off this lock and offer you a holy hecatomb; fifty she-goats was I to sacrifice to you there at your springs, where is your grove and your altar fragrant with burnt-offerings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned Carton, stamping his foot; 'have I sworn by no solemn vow already, to go through with this, that you waste the precious moments now?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Madam,' replied Mr. Micawber, 'it ismy intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of thefuture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made, at that moment, a solemn vow to deliver him and then looked around for the means.
-- I left the room, and locking the door, made a solemn vow in my own heart never to resume my labours; and then, with trembling steps, I sought my own apartment.
-- Surely in that moment I should have been possessed by frenzy and have destroyed my miserable existence but that my vow was heard and that I was reserved for vengeance.
-- Scoffing devil!Again do I vow vengeance; again do I de-vote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
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