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：
-- "Yes, Madam," replied John Mangles, "they must have perished, for in the midst of these breakers in a heavy swell on that pitchy night, they ran to certain death."
-- A considerable swell raised the waves, and seemed to set in continuously toward the coast, and perceiving this, Glenarvan asked John why he did not take advantage of this swell to get nearer to the land.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when there is a heavy swell upon the sea, but the waves are dumb they keep their eyes on the watch for the quarter whence the fierce winds may spring upon them, but they stay where they are and set neither this way nor that, till some particular wind sweeps down from heaven to de-termine them even so did the old man ponder whether to make for the crowd of Danaans, or go in search of Agamem-non.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No cradle is so comfortable as the long, rocking swell of the Pacific.
-- He chased them till he was tired, and then he curled himself up and went to sleep on the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island.
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：
-- The uproar which had so lately echoed through the vaults of the forest was gone, leaving the rush of the waters to swell and sink on the currents of the air, in the unmingled sweetness of nature.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.
-- I was on the summit of one swell when the schooner came stooping over the next.
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