overflow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 溢出; 泛滥，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：
-- There was reason to fear that if the storm lasted longer the Snowy River would overflow its banks, which would be a very unlucky thing for the wagon, stuck fast as it was already in the soft ground.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But little Den-mark must take care what it is about, and not run counter to the moon; that great realm, that might in an ill-humor be-stir itself, and dash down a hail-storm in our faces, or force the Baltic to overflow the sides of its gigantic basin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding thought, not without reason, that the overplus of the lake must overflow on this side.
-- "There is no doubt this overflow exists," he repeated, and since it is not visible it must go through the granite cliff at the west!"
-- Taken below the frozen surface, and conducted through the passage, it preserved its fluidity, and arrived at an interior reservoir which had been hollowed out at the back part of the storeroom, while the overflow ran through the well to the sea.
-- But nothing could be easier than to dig a broad deep ditch, which could be filled from the lake, and the overflow of which would throw itself by a rapid fall into the bed of the Mercy.
-- The opening among the stones and grass was then increased, thus producing a strong fall at the bottom of the passage, the overflow from which escaped by the inner well.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Sudden Shock"As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally the choked town could take care of no more and the overflow ofwounded was sent on to the hospitals at Macon and Augusta.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
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