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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Glenarvan understood what was passing in her husband's mind, and she felt the young girl's attempt would be useless, and only plunge the poor children in deeper despair.
-- The DUNCAN made a frightful plunge forward, and for an instant the men thought she would never rise again.
-- All the cone trembled as if it was about to plunge into a fathomless gulf.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We Russians no sooner arrive at the brink of the water, and re-alize that we are really at the brink, than we are so delighted with the outlook that in we plunge and swim to the farthest point we can see.
-- 'It is as clear as possible, and most comprehensible, that you, in your enthusiasm, should plunge headlong into the first chance that came of publicly airing your great idea that you, a prince, and a pure-living man, did not consider a woman disgraced if the sin were not her own, but that of a disgusting social libertine!Oh, heavens!it's comprehensible enough, my dear prince, but that is not the question, unfortunately!The question is, was there any reality and truth in your feelings?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As one who starts back affrighted, trembling and pale, when he comes suddenly upon a serpent in some mountain glade, even so did Alexandrus plunge into the throng of Trojan warriors, terror-stricken at the sight of the son of Atreus.
-- Antilochus bent over him the while, weeping and holding both his hands as he lay groaning for he feared that he might plunge a knife into his own throat.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw her plunge into them, and Moreau, running slantingly to intercept her, fired and missed as she disappeared.
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：
-- Another groan more faint than the former was succeeded by a heavy and sullen plunge into the water, and all was still again as if the borders of the dreary pool had never been awakened from the silence of creation.
-- After an impatient and breathless pause, a plunge was heard in the water, and it was immediately followed by the report of another rifle.
-- As Hawkeye and the Mohicans had, however, often tra- versed the mountains and valleys of this vast wilderness, they did not hesitate to plunge into its depth, with the free- dom of men accustomed to its privations and difficulties.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, whose fears increased with the delay, jerked the reins on the other side, and kicked lustily with the contrary foot: it was all in vain; his steed started, it is true, but it was only to plunge to the opposite side of the road into a thicket of brambles and alder-bushes.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plunge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods, but in less than a minute they were down again and all was once more silent.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am a good swimmer (though without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar Poe, who were masters of the art), and in that plunge I did not lose my presence of mind.
-- I keep you, when I could, by a word, plunge you into the depths of the ocean.
-- Conseil was just dragging, and his net came up filled with divers ordinary shells, when, all at once, he saw me plunge my arm quickly into the net, to draw out a shell, and heard me utter a cry.
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：
-- Its very softness was an attraction; it was a soft, warm, corrupt nature, into which one might plunge with gratification.
-- She wanted to plunge on and on, till she came to the end of the valley of snow.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to plunge in and expostulate with her, and yet he found himself fishing for words and feeling for a way.
-- He wanted to plunge in with a straight remark of some sort, but he knew not what.
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