shoot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 发射； 掠过， 疾驰而过n. 嫩枝， 苗， 射击，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- This was first put into my head by his seeing a shoot that had come up in the night, and saying, "What, Captain Tom?
-- We had all shaken hands cordially, and neither Herbert's eyes nor mine were quite dry, when I saw a four-oared galley shoot out from under the bank but a little way ahead of us, and row out into the same track.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a lit-tle way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
-- Then the fox said, 'Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.
-- And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together be-fore the house the shepherd said, 'I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow morning, for he is of no use now.'
-- Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck, and said, 'I like many things better than money: first, I will have a bow that will bring down ev-erything I shoot at; secondly, a fiddle that will set everyone dancing that hears me play upon it; and thirdly, I should like that everyone should grant what I ask.'
-- The third brother met a huntsman, who took him with him, and taught him so well all that belonged to hunting, that he became very clever in the craft of the woods; and when he left his master he gave him a bow, and said, 'What-ever you shoot at with this bow you will be sure to hit.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We made a long march the remain-ing part of the day, and, rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir.
-- After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye.
-- Sometimes they de-termined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
-- The treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most pain-ful and ignominious death, by setting fire to your house at night, and the general was to attend with twenty thousand men, armed with poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands.
-- This they made me swear to do, and then they unbound me, only fastening one of my legs with a chain, near my bed, and placed a sentry at my door with his piece charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead if I attempted my liberty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there.
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：
-- He knew he ought to shoot it.
-- I'm not a woman not because I don't want to shoot birds, neither because I don't want to make money, or get on.
-- This last time, I'd have shot her like I shoot a stoat, if I'd but been al-lowed: a raving, doomed thing in the shape of a woman!If only I could have shot her, and ended the whole misery!It ought to be allowed.
-- And I ought to be allowed to shoot them.'
-- 'I would though!and with less qualms than I shoot a weasel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They inquired at several little area gates, where a dejected youth stood spiking his chin on the summit of a precipitous little shoot of wooden steps, but could gain no information.
-- 'Now get you into that corner and lie down,' said Gowan, 'or I'll take you out and shoot you.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DECEMBER My Precious Betsey, As this is to be a scribble-scrabble letter, I direct it to you, for it may amuse you, and give you some idea of my goings on, for though quiet, they are rather amusing, for which, oh, be joyful!After what Amy would call Herculaneum efforts, in the way of mental and moral agriculture, my young ideas begin to shoot and my little twigs to bend as I could wish.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.
-- Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture of the leviathan the flukes lie considerably below the level of his back, they are then completely out of sight beneath the surface; but when he is about to plunge into the deeps, his entire flukes with at least thirty feet of his body are tossed erect in the air, and so remain vibrating a moment, till they downwards shoot out of view.
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