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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You may say good-by to your rifle, for it will never shoot another chamois or fox unless I lend it to you, which I shall always be happy to do, by the by."
-- "The first of these wretches that comes near the ladies, I will shoot like a dog," said the Major, quietly.
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：
-- A lucky long shot of my re-volver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked, and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.'
-- Now tell me, they generally shoot at twenty paces, don't they?
-- 'Can you shoot at all?'
-- 'Oh, he won't shoot himself!'
-- You are master of the house too, in a way; but I can't allow this sort of thing ' 'He won't shoot himself; the boy is only playing the fool,' said General Ivolgin, suddenly and unexpectedly, with in-dignation.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying, 'Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak.'
-- He went up to him and said, 'Teucer, man after my own heart, son of Telamon, captain among the host, shoot on, and be at once the saving of the Danaans and the glory of your father Telamon, who brought you up and took care of you in his own house when you were a child, bastard though you were.
-- And Teucer answered, 'Most noble son of Atreus, you need not urge me; from the moment we began to drive them back to Ilius, I have never ceased so far as in me lies to look out for men whom I can shoot and kill; I have shot eight barbed shafts, and all of them have been buried in the flesh of warlike youths, but this mad dog I cannot hit.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'd shoot en, that's what I'd do," said a lady in the group.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be-sides, why should we want to shoot you when you have just offered to drown yourself?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the truth of the Matter is, that on either side of the Temple, there are Rocks that shoot two Miles into the Sea, and wound the Whales when they light upon 'em.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The housekeeper at Netherfield had re-ceived orders to prepare for the arrival of her master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks.
-- 'When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley,' said her mother, 'I beg you will come here, and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet's manor.
-- He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper; and before he went away, an engagement was formed, chiefly through his own and Mrs. Bennet's means, for his coming next morning to shoot with her husband.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '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.
-- 'Then we give them the shoot gun,' says Xury, laughing, 'make them run wey.'
-- I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water; and though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage.
-- that they were so shy, so subtle, and so swift of foot, that it was the most difficult thing in the world to come at them; but I was not discouraged at this, not doubting but I might now and then shoot one, as it soon happened; for after I had found their haunts a little, I laid wait in this manner for them: I observed if they saw me in the valleys, though they were upon the rocks, they would run away, as in a terrible fright; but if they were feeding in the valleys, and I was upon the rocks, they took no notice of me; from whence I con-cluded that, by the position of their optics, their sight was so directed downward that they did not readily see objects that were above them; so afterwards I took this method - I always climbed the rocks first, to get above them, and then had frequently a fair mark.
-- But now my crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by enemies of several sorts, which it was scarcely possible to keep from it; as, first, the goats, and wild creatures which I called hares, who, tasting the sweetness of the blade, lay in it night and day, as soon as it came up, and eat it so close, that it could get no time to shoot up into stalk.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?'
-- Be-cause they're afraid the man's friends will shoot them in the back, in the dark and it's just what they WOULD do.
扩展阅读：