swing是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 摆动, 摇动; 旋转, 转向,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:
-- It was, in fact, a swing bridge, which opened for the convenience of the boats.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And his eye went back to the swing of ropes.
-- The whole crowd seemed to swing round in the direction of the glint of fire, and I too was swung round by the magnetism of the movement.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
-- If you haven't room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs.
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:
-- 'Yonder red devil would draw you within swing of the tomahawks of his comrades, before you were heated in the chase.
-- As the Huron used his native language, the prisoners, notwithstanding the caution of the natives had kept them within the swing of their tomahawks, could only conjecture the substance of his harangue from the nature of those significant gestures with which an In-dian always illustrates his eloquence.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And again, "If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I."
-- Very low it was still, of course; but there was room to swing two hammocks, and even the mate seemed pleased with the arrangement.
-- "You'll all swing now, I reckon.
-- "We'll all swing and sun-dry for your bungling."
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:
-- And giving a sharp look at Birkin and at Gerald, the young man moved off, with a swing of his coat skirts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had come to the swing doors leading into the street, and was waiting, not over patiently, for two people who were between him and them to pass out and let him follow, when the voice of one of them struck familiarly on his ear.
-- It was such an unexpected hearing, and it was also such an unexpected sight to see Mr Meagles burst the swing doors open, and emerge into the street with the short man, who was of an unoffending appearance, that Clennam stood still for the moment exchanging looks of surprise with the porter.
-- Other vehicles were there, much company being on the road, from the patched Italian Vettura like the body of a swing from an English fair put upon a wooden tray on wheels, and having another wooden tray without wheels put atop of it to the trim English carriage.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hall was empty, and they had a grand pol-ka, for Laurie danced well, and taught her the German step, which delighted Jo, being full of swing and spring.
-- 'Any time when John is away and you get frightened, Mrs. Meg, just swing that out of the front window, and it will rouse the neighborhood in a jiffy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that at last all three of us lifelessly swung from the spars, and for every swing that we made there was a nod from below from the slumbering helmsman.
-- But this awkwardness only lasted a minute, because the strange captain, observing at a glance how affairs stood, cried out, "I see, I see! avast heaving there!Jump, boys, and swing over the cutting-tackle."
-- Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands visitors and all were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars.
-- Sir Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout; so that, like a great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his bony cavities spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan and swing all day upon his lower jaw.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- - I set up my tent under a rock, and lay there for the first night; making it as large as I could, with stakes driven in to swing my hammock upon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Girls who can stand in a line and look pretty are as numerous as labourers who can swing a pick.
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