gasp是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 喘气, 气喘吁吁地说，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the sob of a wom-an, the muffled, strangling gasp of one who is torn by an uncontrollable sorrow.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing in the way of fighting that Kala Nag, the old wise Black Snake, did not know, for he had stood up more than once in his time to the charge of the wounded tiger, and, curling up his soft trunk to be out of harm's way, had knocked the springing brute sideways in mid-air with a quick sickle cut of his head, that he had invented all by him-self; had knocked him over, and kneeled upon him with his huge knees till the life went out with a gasp and a howl, and there was only a fluffy striped thing on the ground for Kala Nag to pull by the tail.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time he did not utter one word; but, after a considerable interval, during which Mrs Quilp was almost paralysed with the alarm his looks engendered, he contrived to gasp out,'If I had him here.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," said the girl, with a half-suppressed gasp of emotion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the breath went out of Scarlett's lungs in one gasp of horror before rage swept her.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and again came a sharp gasp of breath, or a sound like a sigh, then the rapid thudding of movement on the thickly-carpeted floor, then the strange sound of flesh escaping under flesh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then a half-suppressed gasp broke out among the Chorus; for Lord Decimus rose to take his leave.
-- 'Lord,' said Young John, appealing with a gasp to the spikes on the wall.
-- The cramped area of the prison had such an effect on Mrs Meagles that she began to weep, and such an effect on Mr Meagles that he began to gasp for air.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.
-- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I loaded all my cannon, as I called them - that is to say, my muskets, which were mounted upon my new fortification - and all my pistols, and resolved to defend myself to the last gasp - not forgetting seriously to com-mend myself to the Divine protection, and earnestly to pray to God to deliver me out of the hands of the barbarians.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The towhead was a rattling big distance off, away out there in the middle of the river, but I didn't lose no time; and when I struck the raft at last I was so fagged I would a just laid down to blow and gasp if I could afforded it.
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