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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were numerous bays along the shore, easy of access, but the yacht did not drop anchor in any; she continued her course fearlessly through the luminous darkness.
-- A broken spar, or any fragment of the vessel, would have put them in the right track; but nothing whatever was visible, and the yacht continued her route, till she dropped anchor at the port of Talcahuano, forty-two days from the time she had sailed out of the fogs of the Clyde.
-- John Mangles was equally busy in coaling the vessel, that she might weigh anchor at the same time.
-- Several whaling vessels were lying quietly at anchor there, for the coast abounds in seals and other marine animals.
-- At eight o'clock they entered the bay, and cast anchor in the port of Cape Town.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far below him the Tappan Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In some of the vessels at anchor all hands were busily engaged in coiling ropes, spreading out sails to dry, taking in or discharging their cargoes; in others no life was visible but two or three tarry boys, and perhaps a barking dog running to and fro upon the deck or scrambling up to look over the side and bark the louder for the view.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print the following important news:Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March 1, 17 Dear Livesey As I do not know whether you are at the hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
-- But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the Hispaniola had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure.
-- We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.
-- 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.
-- I had quite made up my mind that the mutineers, after their repulse of the morning, had nothing nearer their hearts than to up anchor and away to sea; this, I thought, it would be a fine thing to prevent, and now that I had seen how they left their watchmen unprovided with a boat, I thought it might be done with little risk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Recherche, after touching at several points in the Pacific, cast anchor before Vanikoro, 7th July, 1827, in that same harbour of Vanou where the Nautilus was at this time.
-- On the 10th of February, 1828, the Astrolabe appeared off Tikopia, and took as guide and interpreter a deserter found on the island; made his way to Vanikoro, sighted it on the 12th inst., lay among the reefs until the 14th, and not until the 20th did he cast anchor within the barrier in the harbour of Vanou.
-- The large boat and the whaler belonging to the Astrolabe were sent to this place, and, not without some difficulty, their crews hauled up an anchor weighing 1,800 lbs., a brass gun, some pigs of iron, and two copper swivel-guns.
-- The Bayonnaise cast her anchor before Vanikoro some months after the departure of the Astrolabe, but found no new document; but stated that the savages had respected the monument to La Perouse.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I almost thought he would sink the ship before the anchor could be got up; involuntarily I paused on my handspike, and told Queequeg to do the same, thinking of the perils we both ran, in starting on the voyage with such a devil for a pilot.
-- At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home; upon which our master ordered out the sheet-anchor, so that we rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the bitter end.
-- Yet such was the fright I had taken of the Moors, and the dreadful apprehensions I had of falling into their hands, that I would not stop, or go on shore, or come to an anchor; the wind continuing fair till I had sailed in that manner five days; and then the wind shifting to the southward, I con-cluded also that if any of our vessels were in chase of me, they also would now give over; so I ventured to make to the coast, and came to an anchor in the mouth of a little riv-er, I knew not what, nor where, neither what latitude, what country, what nation, or what river.
-- Xury said it was a lion, and it might be so for aught I know; but poor Xury cried to me to weigh the anchor and row away; 'No,' says I, 'Xury; we can slip our cable, with the buoy to it, and go off to sea; they cannot follow us far.'
-- Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.
-- When I first discovered them, I was going to give over my enterprise, and come back again, not knowing how far it might oblige me to go out to sea; and above all, doubting how I should get back again: so I came to an anchor; for I had made a kind of an anchor with a piece of a broken grap-pling which I got out of the ship.
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