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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had the DUNCAN built expressly that he might take his bride to the most beautiful lands in the world, and complete their honeymoon by sailing up the Mediterranean, and through the clustering islands of the Archipelago.
-- To mistake a railway or to take the train to Edinburgh when you want to go to Dumbarton might happen; but to mistake a ship and be sailing for Chili when you meant to go to India—that is a blunder indeed!
-- Still, it is a very ridiculous plight for a man to be in, to find himself sailing to America when he set out to go to the East Indies!"
-- After sailing along these deserted shores, the DUNCAN went through a series of narrow passes, between forests of beech and ash and birch, and at length doubled Cape Froward, still bristling with the ice of the last winter.
-- "Not at all; sailing clippers often go faster."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was lost to his view, he pursued his homeward way, glancing up sometimes at the sky, where the clouds were sailing fast and wildly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Valkyrie was swift enough, but with all sailing boats there is the same uncertainty.
-- Still farther away, ran the Pterodactyl, with the winged hand, gliding or rather sailing through the dense and compressed air like a huge bat.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- O last of all ships, through the hyacinthian shallows!O pinnace on the last wild waters, sailing in the last voyage of our civilization!Whither, O weird wheeled ship, your slow course steering.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So modest was Mr Merdle withal, in the midst of these splendid achievements, that he looked far more like a man in possession of his house under a distraint, than a commercial Colossus bestriding his own hearthrug, while the little ships were sailing into dinner.
-- No longer feeling that want of a defined place and character which had caused her so much trouble, this fair ship began to steer steadily on a shaped course, and to swim with a weight and balance that developed her sailing qualities.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's no fun to go sailing round.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of Peleg.
-- Here be it said, that many tattooed savages sailing in Nantucket ships at last come to be converted into the churches.
-- In like manner, the Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew.
-- For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick.
-- There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would perhaps either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I had a boat, my next design was to make a cruise round the island; for as I had been on the other side in one place, crossing, as I have already described it, over the land, so the discoveries I made in that little journey made me very eager to see other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I thought of noth-ing but sailing round the island.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a little pond near by some cleanly dressed children were sailing white canvas boats.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's always your way, Maim always sailing in to help somebody before they're hurt.
-- So they dug and dug like everything; and it got aw-ful dark, and the rain started, and the wind swished and swushed along, and the lightning come brisker and brisker, and the thunder boomed; but them people never took no notice of it, they was so full of this business; and one minute you could see everything and every face in that big crowd, and the shovelfuls of dirt sailing up out of the grave, and the next second the dark wiped it all out, and you couldn't see nothing at all.
-- But at last, just as I was sailing by, FLASH comes the light in Mary Jane's window!and my heart swelled up sudden, like to bust; and the same second the house and all was behind me in the dark, and wasn't ever going to be before me no more in this world.
-- So we had the odd spoon, and dropped it in her apron-pocket whilst she was a-giving us our sailing orders, and Jim got it all right, along with her shingle nail, before noon.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had just reached the village, when a sudden gust of wind blew off Pinocchio's cap and made it go sailing far down the street.
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