sailing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 启航的n. 航行，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：
-- Poor Robin Crusoe, he called him, when he came home again after sailing round the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These solemn words, which had been read at his father's grave, arose in his mind as he went down the dark streets, among the heavy shadows, with the moon and the clouds sailing on high above him.
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：
-- We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and looked down on Copenhagen, and far, far away over the water; then we went to Friedericksberg, where the King and the Queen were sailing about in their splendid barges.'
-- ''But I had a different sort of sailing to that, later; and that, too, for many a year; a long way off, on great voyages.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the 6th of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await for a week the sailing of the next steamer.
-- When the bottles were empty, however, he rose to go and tell his master of the change in the time of the sailing of the Carnatic.
-- Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
-- He remembered that the time of sailing had been changed, that he should have informed his master of that fact, and that he had not done so.
-- But they were mostly sailing vessels, of which, of course, Phileas Fogg could make no use.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was seen sailing down corridors, a frigate, with Holabird a sloop in her wake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems to me at this hour, that Ihave never seen such sunlight as on those bright April afternoons;that I have never seen such a sunny little figure as I used to see,sitting in the doorway of the old boat; that I have never beheldsuch sky, such water, such glorified ships sailing away into goldenair.
-- I have associated it, ever since, with the sunny street ofCanterbury, dozing as it were in the hot light; and with the sight ofits old houses and gateways, and the stately, grey cathedral, withthe rooks sailing round the towers.
-- Agneshad no time to say more, for the room-door opened, and Mrs.Waterbrook, who was a large lady- or who wore a large dress: Idon't exactly know which, for I don't know which was dress andwhich was lady- came sailing in.
-- The rooks were sailing about the cathedraltowers, and the towers themselves, overlooking many a longunaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, werecutting the bright morning air, as if there were no such thing aschange on earth.
-- The time drawing on rapidly for the sailing of the emigrant-ship,my good old nurse (almost broken-hearted for me, when we firstmet) came up to London.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A heated breeze from the south slowly fanned the summits of lofty objects, and in the sky dashes of buoyant cloud were sailing in a course at right angles to that of another stratum, neither of them in the direction of the breeze below.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are ban-ished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was pleasant and quiet, out there with the sails on the river passing beyond the earthwork, and sometimes, when the tide was low, looking as if they belonged to sunken ships that were still sailing on at the bottom of the water.
-- Biddy sighed as she looked at the ships sailing on, and returned for answer, "Yes; I am not over-particular."
-- Biddy turned her face suddenly towards mine, and looked far more attentively at me than she had looked at the sailing ships.
-- Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As soon as you come sailing back in it,' said he, 'you shall have my daugh-ter for wife.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a strict alliance between the Japanese emperor and the king of Lug-gnagg; which affords frequent opportunities of sailing from one island to the other.
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