plunge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 投入, 插入; 跳水，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs Cratchit, look-ing slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A try-ing suspense, to be passing a whole summer night on the brink of the black ocean, ready to take that plunge into it upon which Monsieur Gabelle had resolved!But, the friendly dawn appearing at last, and the rush-candles of the village guttering out, the people happily dispersed, and Monsieur Gabelle came down bringing his life with him for that while.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I saw you were in uncertainty about me," said Levin, smiling good-naturedly, "but I made haste to plunge into intellectual conversation to smooth over the defects of my attire."
-- A feeling such as she had known when about to take the first plunge in bathing came upon her, and she crossed herself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He learned to dive into the lake, though the first plunge was an agony of fiery cold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingeringon the bank.'
-- It was amurky confusion- here and there blotted with a colour like thecolour of the smoke from damp fuel- of flying clouds tossed upinto most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in theclouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of thedeepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemedto plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws ofnature, she had lost her way and were frightened.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore of-ten, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forev-er.
-- I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.
-- But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: 'Tonight when the boy is asleep, go to his bed and plunge this knife into his heart, and bring me his heart and tongue, and if you do not do it, you shall lose your life.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I became intoxicated with a sense of lofty sublimity, without thought of the abysses into which my daring was soon about to plunge me.
-- "I should fancy almost that I should experience a certain amount of satisfaction in making a plunge into this dense atmosphere.
-- I stopped to plunge my hands and forehead in the pleasant water of the Hansbach stream, blessing its presence as a certain consolation.
-- If it were to give way and fall upon us!Other lightnings plunge their forked streaks in every direction, and take the form of globes of fire, which explode like bombshells over a beleaguered city.
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：
-- 'Hope I can plunge in the dagger a few more times yet,' he said, grinning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging was to plunge into a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade.
-- When we were left alone in our bedroom at night, I would reproach her with my perfect knowledge of her baseness; and then she would cry and cry and say I was cruel, and then I would hold her in my arms till morning: loving her as much as ever, and often feeling as if, rather than suffer so, I could so hold her in my arms and plunge to the bottom of a river where I would still hold her after we were both dead.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Following Mr. Dashwood's directions, and making Mrs. Northbury her model, Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature, but thanks to the life preserver thrown her by a friend, she came up again not much the worse for her ducking.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death.
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was Oliver's horror and alarm as he stood a few paces off, looking on with his eyelids as wide open as they would possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into the old gentleman's pocket, and draw from thence a handkerchief!To see him hand the same to Charley Bates; and finally to behold them, both running away round the corner at full speed!
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