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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VI AN UNEXPECTED PASSENGERTHE ladies passed the whole of the first day of the voyage in their berths, for there was a heavy swell in the sea, and toward evening the wind blew pretty fresh, and the DUNCAN tossed and pitched considerably.
-- A slight swell still agitated the sea, but the more distant waves were undistinguishable in a motionless bank of clouds.
-- The breeze blew gently from the northwest, and a slight swell rocked the frail craft.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A general recollection that this was the kind of thing the Police said to the swell mob, caused Mr. Harthouse to ask the waiter in return, with bristling indignation, what the Devil he meant by 'wanted'?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees, they appear to swell out, break, and gain in number what they lose in grandeur; their heaviness is so great that they are unable to lift themselves from the horizon; but under the influence of the upper currents of air, they are gradually broken up, become much darker, and then present the appearance of one single layer of a formidable character; now and then a lighter cloud, still lit up from above, rebounds upon this grey carpet, and is lost in the opaque mass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he yet stood clasping the grate with both hands, an uproar broke upon his hearing; yells, shrieks, oaths, threats, execrations, all comprehended in it, though (as in a storm) nothing but a raging swell of sound distinctly heard.
-- Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune.
-- Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.
-- The carriage dipped down again into a hollow of the black dry sea, and for a long time there was nothing visible save its petrified swell and the gloomy sky.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A. SNODGRASS THE MASKED MARRIAGE (A Tale Of Venice) Gondola after gondola swept up to the marble steps, and left its lovely load to swell the brilliant throng that filled the stately halls of Count Adelon.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
-- Well, well, my dear comrade and twin-brother, thought I, as I drew in and then slacked off the rope to every swell of the sea what matters it, after all?
-- Nevertheless, he stuck to their wake, though indeed their back water must have retarded him, because the white-bone or swell at his broad muzzle was a dashed one, like the swell formed when two hostile currents meet.
-- An instant more, and all four boats were diagonically in the whale's immediate wake, while stretching from them, on both sides, was the foaming swell that he made.
-- One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they fly, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the pavements: up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!Stop thief!'
-- 'Look at his togs!Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut!Oh, my eye, what a game!And his books, too!Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, 'There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER IV - FIRST WEEKS ON THE ISLANDWHEN I waked it was broad day, the weather clear, and the storm abated, so that the sea did not rage and swell as be-fore.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had more than the ordinary triumph of accepted love to swell his heart, and raise his spirits.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a truly swell saloon, with rich screens, fancy wines, and a line of bar goods unsurpassed in the country.
-- It's a way-up, swell place."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king's duds was all black, and he did look real swell and starchy.
-- Then they raked it into the bag again, and I see the king begin to swell himself up for another speech.
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