swell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 使膨胀, 使增强, 使壮大, 使隆起，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For they were a musi-cal family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and nev-er swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoner walked to and fro in his cell, counting its measurement, and the roar of the city arose like muffled drums with a wild swell of voices added to them.
-- With such scraps tossing and rolling upward from the depths of his mind, the prisoner walked faster and faster, obstinately counting and count-ing; and the roar of the city changed to this extent that it still rolled in like muffled drums, but with the wail of voices that he knew, in the swell that rose above them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm not doing a thing, he said, and if I don't have my Ph.D., then I won't be able to land a nice job teaching English in some swell school, and I'd better land one, too, because it doesn't look to poor Madeline as if anybody was going to marry her."
-- "Gosh, Clif, you cer'nly got a swell line of jaw-music.
-- Going," with ponderous jocularity, "going to blow you all to a swell feed at the Grand--" "Oh, how nice!"
-- Gosh, most fellows, why, they go to swell homes for vacation, and have dances and fathers and everything.
-- He came home in high cheerfulness, rode the youngest of his three children pickaback, and remarked to his wife: "Tessie, I got a swell idea."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggottyseemed to swell and grow immensely large.
-- Running inamong them to swell the ranks, I was very near the chaise when itrolled away; and I had a lively impression made upon me, in themidst of the noise and dust, of having seen Mr. Jack Maldon rattlepast with an agitated face, and something cherry-coloured in hishand.
-- He seemed to swell andgrow before my eyes; the room seemed full of the echoes of hisvoice; and the strange feeling (to which, perhaps, no one is quite a 355stranger) that all this had occurred before, at some indefinite time,and that I knew what he was going to say next, took possession ofme.
-- Mrs. Markleham, by this time recovering the power of speech, andseeming to swell with family pride and motherly indignation, hereexclaimed, 'Annie, get up immediately, and don't disgraceeverybody belonging to you by humbling yourself like that, unlessyou wish to see me go out of my mind on the spot!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other.
-- Circumstances that might swell to half an hour's relation, and contained multiplied proofs to her who had seen them, had passed undiscerned by her who now heard them; but the two latest occurrences to be mentioned, the two of strongest promise to Harriet, were not without some degree of witness from Emma herself. The first, was his walking with her apart from the others, in the lime-walk at Donwell, where they had been walk-ing some time before Emma came, and he had taken pains (as she was convinced) to draw her from the rest to him-self and at first, he had talked to her in a more particular way than he had ever done before, in a very particular way indeed! (Harriet could not recall it without a blush.)
-- He was the son of Mr. Weston he was continually here I always found him very pleasant and, in short, for (with a sigh) let me swell out the causes ever so ingeniously, they all centre in this at last my vanity was flattered, and I allowed his attentions.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
-- "I suppose not," said Gabriel bitterly, and going on with his turning, his words rising and falling in a regular swell and cadence as he stooped or rose with the winch, which directed them, according to his position, perpendicularly into the earth, or horizontally along the garden, his eyes being fixed on a leaf upon the ground.
-- because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me!Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o' your takings."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such handsome men, thought Scarlett, with a swell of pride in her heart, as the men called greetings, waved tofriends, bent low over the hands of elderly ladies.
-- She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against thecloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
-- It was so good to have a man beside her, to leanclose to him and feel the hard swell of his arm and know that he stood between her and unnamable terrors, even thoughhe merely sat there and stared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her.
-- The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation, than they had ever had before; so, the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden, seemed to call to me that the place was changed, and that Estella was gone out of it for ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an easy swell he is!'
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