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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His master, freeing his feet from the stirrups, began to swim vigorously.
-- "Would you like me to try and swim across?"
-- Of his six companions four were killed; the other two and the quartermaster were able to swim to the ships, and were picked up and recovered.
-- "My Lord," said Robert, trembling with emotion, "if you don't want me to swim to the shore, let a boat be lowered.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We Russians no sooner arrive at the brink of the water, and re-alize that we are really at the brink, than we are so delighted with the outlook that in we plunge and swim to the farthest point we can see.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim, and swim almost as well as he could run.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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：
-- Could swim like a duck, paddled round the castle till he came to a little door guarded by two stout fel-lows, knocked their heads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then, by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, he smashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps covered with dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spiders that would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that, he all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion, to swim off into the air.
-- There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.
-- The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe.
-- Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.
-- Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship, who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us.
-- 'But,' said I, 'you swim well enough to reach to the shore, and the sea is calm; make the best of your way to shore, and I will do you no harm; but if you come near the boat I'll shoot you through the head, for I am re-solved to have my liberty;' so he turned himself about, and swam for the shore, and I make no doubt but he reached it with ease, for he was an excellent swimmer.
-- We came into this creek in the evening, resolv-ing to swim on shore as soon as it was dark, and discover the country; but as soon as it was quite dark, we heard such dreadful noises of the barking, roaring, and howling of wild creatures, of we knew not what kinds, that the poor boy was ready to die with fear, and begged of me not to go on shore till day.
-- The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body, and I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore - a very great way; but I held my breath, and as-sisted myself to swim still forward with all my might.
-- While I was doing this, I found the tide begin to flow, though very calm; and I had the mortification to see my coat, shirt, and waistcoat, which I had left on the shore, upon the sand, swim away.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- De river wuz a- risin', en dey wuz a good current; so I reck'n'd 'at by fo' in de mawnin' I'd be twenty-five mile down de river, en den I'd slip in jis b'fo' daylight en swim asho', en take to de woods on de Il-linois side.
-- We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.
-- Den I was gwyne to swim to de raf' agin when dey was gone.
-- Says he: 'I got hurt a little, en couldn't swim fas', so I wuz a con-sidable ways behine you towards de las'; when you landed I reck'ned I could ketch up wid you on de lan' 'dout havin' to shout at you, but when I see dat house I begin to go slow.
-- The king and the duke turned out by and by look-ing pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Pinocchio!The sight of that monster frightened him almost to death!He tried to swim away from him, to change his path, to escape, but that immense mouth kept coming nearer and nearer.
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