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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting-yell, and they pitched over one after the other, just as steamers shoot rap-ids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.
-- He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look his enemy in the face; then he would shoot it out like lightning, and when the big teeth were firmly fixed on the other seal's neck, the other seal might get away if he could, but Sea Catch would not help him.
-- Men shoot us in the water and club us on the land; Men drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep and tame, And still we sing Lukannon before the sealers came.
-- Rikki-tikki saw Teddy's father shoot out a big hand, catch Teddy by the shoulder, and drag him across the little table with the tea-cups, safe and out of reach of Nagaina.
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：
-- No more words, but follow, or the fog may leave us in the middle of our path, a mark for both armies to shoot at.'
-- he exclaimed; 'none can shoot without an aim!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the mutineers succeeded in crossing the stockade, he argued, they would take possession of any unprotected loophole and shoot us down like rats in our own stronghold.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The greater number, instead of leaves, shoot forth blades of capricious shapes, comprised within a scale of colours pink, carmine, green, olive, fawn, and brown.
-- Then, as specimens of other kinds, some ovoides, resembling an egg of a dark brown colour, marked with white bands, and without tails; diodons, real sea-porcupines, furnished with spikes, and capable of swelling in such a way as to look like cushions bristling with darts; hippocampi, common to every ocean; some pegasi with lengthened snouts, which their pectoral fins, being much elongated and formed in the shape of wings, allow, if not to fly, at least to shoot into the air; pigeon spatulae, with tails covered with many rings of shell; macrognathi with long jaws, an excellent fish, nine inches long, and bright with most agreeable colours; pale-coloured calliomores, with rugged heads; and plenty of chaetpdons, with long and tubular muzzles, which kill insects by shooting them, as from an air-gun, with a single drop of water.
-- There were rays of giant size, five yards long, and endowed with great muscular strength, which enabled them to shoot above the waves; sharks of many kinds; amongst others, one fifteen feet long, with triangular sharp teeth, and whose transparency rendered it almost invisible in the water.
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：
-- Her spirit was active, her life like a shoot that is growing steadily, but which has not yet come above ground.
-- He longed to go with the soldiers to shoot the men.
-- Gerald stood near them in delight, whilst gangs of derisive miners strolled up and down the lanes, calling and jeering:"Now then, three ha'porth o' coppers, let's see thee shoot thy gun."
-- It seemed to shoot out arms of fire like a cuttle-fish, like a luminous polyp, palpitating strongly before her.
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