anchor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 锚, 危难时可依靠的人或物, 用锚泊船，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a city dominated by the axe, alone at night, with natu-ral sorrow rising in him for the sixty-three who had been that day put to death, and for to-morrow's victims then awaiting their doom in the prisons, and still of to-morrow's and to-morrow's, the chain of association that brought the 447words home, like a rusty old ship's anchor from the deep, might have been easily found.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw that this association was a mere anchor to save him from self- contempt.
-- "And so it is, princess, that I am shamelessly clutching at you as an anchor of salvation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Rangoon weighed anchor at Singapore the next day at four a.m., to receive coal, having gained half a day on the prescribed time of her arrival.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, they would stop at Blackwater, the port of St. Hubert, but they would anchor far out in the harbor; and while the passengers bound for St. Hubert would be permitted to go ashore, in the port-doctor's launch, no one in St. Hubert would be allowed to leave--nothing from that pest-hole would touch the steamer except the official mail, which the ship's surgeon would disinfect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shall go there one day,and find them blundering through half the nautical terms inYoung's Dictionary, apropos of the "Nancy" having run down the"Sarah Jane," or Mr. Peggotty and the Yarmouth boatmen havingput off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the "Nelson"Indiaman in distress; and you shall go there another day, and findthem deep in the evidence, pro and con., respecting a clergymanwho has misbehaved himself; and you shall find the judge in thenautical case, the advocate in the clergyman's case, or contrariwise.
-- It might have been quite heart-breaking, but for Dora, who was thestay and anchor of my tempest-driven bark.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this manner many appalling hours passed; several of my dogs died, and I myself was about to sink under the accumulation of distress when I saw your vessel riding at anchor and holding forth to me hopes of succour and life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, indeed, I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves.
-- And soon the tide began to slacken, and the craft lying at anchor to swing, and presently they had all swung round, and the ships that were taking advantage of the new tide to get up to the Pool began to crowd upon us in a fleet, and we kept under the shore, as much out of the strength of the tide now as we could, standing carefully off from low shallows and mudbanks.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I communicated to his majesty a project I had formed of seizing the enemy's whole fleet; which, as our scouts assured us, lay at anchor in the harbour, ready to sail with the first fair wind.
-- I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.
-- We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed in the long-boat, with vessels for water, if any could be found.
-- We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot.
-- On the fifth of December, 1715, we cast anchor in the Downs, about nine in the morn- 371ing, and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Rotherhith.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty-eight hours later, after a storm which drove us far to sea under bare poles, we came once more in sight of land, and were boarded by a pilot, who, after three hours of dangerous navigation, brought the schooner safely to an anchor in the bay of Faxa before Reykjavik.
-- Was a vessel lying at anchor in some part of the interior of the earth?
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：
-- A man needed to have an anchor in the safe world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having embraced her Anchor with great affection, Fanny took a bottle of sweet toilette water from the table, and called to her maid for a fine handkerchief.
-- It was in vain that he tried to control his attention by directing it to any business occupation or train of thought; it rode at anchor by the haunting topic, and would hold to no other idea.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a blissful sense of burdens lifted off, Meg and Jo closed their weary eyes, and lay at rest, like storm-beaten boats safe at anchor in a quiet harbor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed "I vum it's Sunday you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere come along then; do come; won't ye come?"
-- "And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea; when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth water behind.
-- Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean.
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