swim是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 游泳； 游； 漂浮； 眩晕； 充溢vt. 游过n. 游泳，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：
-- If only to-morrow on awaking, I could again call all to mind so vividly!I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination.
-- 'And there in the corner stood a wa-terpail, where I used to swim my boats.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What an absurd fancy!Why, did she swim in some special way, then?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and I'll take you for a swim and pray with you.
-- "Gottlieb, the poor old impractical fusser!I'd like to see him swim that current!"
-- Angus had a swim or a fencing lesson daily; he swam easily and fenced like a still-faced demon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cellar rats will swim out, and men will curse in the rain and wind as they drag their rubbish to their upper storeys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only know that I swim about in space, with a blue angel, ina state of blissful delirium, until I find myself alone with her in alittle room, resting on a sofa.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless and almost frantic im-pulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would disdain the bridge and swim his horse through the river and come home roaring, to be putto bed on the sofa in the office by Pork who always waited up with a lamp in the front hall on such occasions.
-- "Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green waterand that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black-hole of that ship warn't a strong one, to a judge of black-holes that could swim and dive.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the man, 'you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!'
-- They were still not safe; for he was such a great beast that in his fall he overset the boat, and they had to swim in the open sea upon a few planks.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the ships came up, I stripped myself, and waded till I came within a hundred yards off the boat, after which I was forced to swim till I got up to it.
-- In this necessity I was forced to swim be-hind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I advanced so far that I could just hold up my chin and feel the ground.
-- They swim from their infancy like frogs, and are able to continue long under water, where they often take fish, which the females carry home to their young.
-- After a short silence, he told me, 'he did not know how I would take what he was going to say: that in the last general assembly, when the af-fair of the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offence at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, or a thing ever heard of before among them; the assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest 357of my species, or command me to swim back to the place whence I came: that the first of these expedients was utter-ly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural prav-ity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms' cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour.'
-- He doubted it would be impossible for me to swim to another country; and therefore wished I would contrive some sort of vehicle, resembling those I had described to him, that might carry me on the sea; in which work I should have the assistance of his own servants, as well as those of his neighbours.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet the keen air acted violently on my nervous system; sky, earth, all seemed to swim round, while the steeple rocked like a ship.
-- "It is not my intention to leap into it head foremost, or even to swim across it, like Leander over the Hellespont.
-- All I could do, therefore, was to swim with the stream.
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：
-- It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging was to plunge into a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade.
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