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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She darted down from heaven into the air like some falcon sailing on his broad wings and scream-ing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass, for she was sailing dead into the wind.
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 curling and spotless mists, which had been seen sailing above the hills toward the north, were now returning in an interminable dusky sheet, that was urged along by the fury of a tempest.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But both Captain Nichols and Strickland were bound East, and it chanced that the only opportunities for signing on were with ships sailing West.
-- Twice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle.
-- He worked his passage on a sailing vessel that was making the trip from Auckland to San Francisco, and he arrived with a box of paints, an easel, and a dozen canvases.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had he himself been as well acquainted with the art of sailing in the air as he was with the navigation of a ship, Pencroft would not have hesitated to set out, of course taking his young friend Herbert with him; for, accustomed to brave the fiercest tempests of the ocean, he was not to be hindered on account of the hurricane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were dull pigs too, turning up the ground in search of dainty food, and grunting their monotonous grumblings as they prowled about, or crossed each other in their quest; plump pigeons skimming round the roof or strutting on the eaves; and ducks and geese, far more graceful in their own conceit, waddling awkwardly about the edges of the pond or sailing glibly on its surface.
-- Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John TrelawneyPostscript I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master a stiff man, which I regret, but in all other respects a treasure.
-- This land that we have sighted is the place we have been sailing for.
-- In three minutes I had the Hispaniola sailing easily before the wind along the coast of Treasure Island, with good hopes of turning the northern point ere noon and beating down again as far as North Inlet before high water, when we might beach her safely and wait till the subsiding tide permitted us to land.
-- It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42脗掳 15' N. lat.
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- I was sailing only one fathom below the surface of the water when the shock came.
-- Her speed increased gradually, and, sailing on the surface of the ocean, she quitted safe and sound the dangerous passes of the Straits of Torres.
-- About seven o'clock in the evening, the Nautilus, half-immersed, was sailing in a sea of milk.
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