flow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 流， 流动n. 流量， 流速，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：
-- Besides the Patagonian rivers, the Rio Colorado and the Rio Negro, flow into the sea along deserted solitudes, uninhabited and uninhabitable; while, on the contrary, the principal rivers of Australia—the Murray, the Yarrow, the Torrens, the Darling—all connected with each other, throw themselves into the ocean by well-frequented routes, and their mouths are ports of great activity.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One saw it in the lines of her figure, the make and motion of her hands, the flow of her dress, the droop of her hair, unconscious yet harmonious, and as attractive to many as beauty itself.
-- Then he walked more slowly, suddenly lost his fine flow of language, and now and then a dreadful pause occurred.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time and tide flow wide.
-- Unappalled by the massacre made upon them during the night, the sharks now freshly and more keenly allured by the before pent blood which began to flow from the carcass the rabid creatures swarmed round it like bees in a beehive.
-- Stubb was beginning to look disappointed, especially as the horrible nosegay increased, when suddenly from out the very heart of this plague, there stole a faint stream of perfume, which flowed through the tide of bad smells without being absorbed by it, as one river will flow into and then along with another, without at all blending with it for a time.
-- And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.
-- murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and following with his eyes the receding boat "canst thou yet ring boldly to that sight? lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical third day? For when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure the first is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing be that end what it may.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.
-- It is not necessary to make any guesses on the subject, however; for the sudden entrance of the two young ladies whom Oliver had seen on a former occasion, caused the conversation to flow afresh.
-- 'You may depend upon it,' said Giles, 'that that gate stopped the flow of the excitement.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.'
-- What congratulations will then flow in!I appeal to Mr. Darcy: but let me not inter-rupt you, sir.
-- Mr. Collins received and returned these felici-tations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the re-fusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that I could do was to wait till the tide was at the highest, keeping the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of ground, which I expected the water would flow over; and so it did.
-- I found af-ter I came about two miles up, that the tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little brook of running water, very fresh and good; but this being the dry season, there was hardly any water in some parts of it - at least not enough to run in any stream, so as it could be perceived.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary it was a relief to her, to be spared the communication of what would give such affliction to them, and to be saved likewise from hearing that condemnation of Edward, which would probably flow from the excess of their partial affection for herself, and which was more than she felt equal to support.
-- CHAPTER 29Before the house-maid had lit their fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over a cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her.
-- Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest--felt her own helplessness without quite realising the wisp on the tide that she was.
-- The flow of Carrie's meditations had been disturbed, and Hanson had not long gone upstairs before she followed.
-- They were things which would naturally flow from the situation.
-- On the morrow, however, there was nothing in the papers concerning the event, and, in view of the flow of common, everyday things about, it now lost a shade of the glow of the previous evening.
-- As harps in the wind, the latter respond to every breath of fancy, voicing in their moods all the ebb and flow of the ideal.
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