launch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 使(船) 下水, 发射(火箭) ; 开始, 开办; n. (船) 下水, 汽艇，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：
-- Wilson and Mulrady followed to launch the yawl.
-- To launch it, jump in and fly from the dangerous shore, was only a minute's work.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them.
-- I did not then see the hands from the island that were receiv-ing the packages, for the hull of the launch was hidden from me by the side of the schooner.
-- So I waited passively upon fate; and the work of transferring Montgom-ery's possessions to the launch went on as if I did not exist.
-- Even then I noticed the oddness of the brown faces of the men who were with Montgomery in the launch; but the launch was now fully laden, and was shoved off hastily.
-- The hands in the launch shouted derisively, and I heard Montgomery curse at them; and then the captain, the mate, and one of the seamen helping him, ran me aft towards the stern.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again I call out all my diplomacy, and again as soon as the thing was about at an end, our friend the government clerk gets hot and red, and his sausages stand on end with wrath, and once more I launch out into diplomatic wiles."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the launch bobbed, its wet canvas top glistening, he had a long and complaining conference with the commander of the launch, and received a pouch of mail, the only thing to come aboard.
-- As the launch sputtered, swung round, and headed for the filtering of lights ashore, as it bowed its head and danced to the swell, the sandy-headed official demanded of Martin: "You're the McGurk Commission?"
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good riders and plenty of room, And launch us in column of squadron and see The way of the war-horse to 'Bonnie Dundee'!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless idol, how abject wewere to him!What a launch in life I think it now, on looking back,to be so mean and servile to a man of such parts and pretensions!
-- 'Withrespect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frailcanoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered thatimportant business point; and would beg to propose my notes-of-hand- drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amountsrespectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying tosuch securities- at eighteen, twenty-four and thirty months.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well!suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
-- He could not launch the pinnace, going at the rate of twelve or thirteen yards every second.
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：
-- The steam launch was fussing in, all its music jingling, people calling excitedly from on board.
-- Gerald went to see to the debarkation, Birkin was getting tea for Mrs Brangwen, Brangwen had joined a Grammar-School group, Hermione was sitting down by their mother, the girls went to the landing-stage to watch the launch come in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cried, "we are about to launch out upon an unknown sea; and where, if I may ask, is the vessel to carry us?"
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ship and I are two brave fellows! Ha, ha!Some one take me up, and launch me, spine-wise, on the sea, for by live-oaks!my spine's a keel.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- want of hands to move it, when it was made, into the water - a difficulty much harder for me to surmount than all the consequences of want of tools could be to them; for what was it to me, if when I had chosen a vast tree in the woods, and with much trouble cut it down, if I had been able with my tools to hew and dub the outside into the proper shape of a boat, and burn or cut out the inside to make it hollow, so as to make a boat of it - if, after all this, I must leave it just there where I found it, and not be able to launch it into the water?
-- As for the first, which was so vastly big, for I made it without considering beforehand, as I ought to have done, how I should be able to launch it, so, never being able to bring it into the water, or bring the water to it, I was obliged to let it lie where it was as a memorandum to teach me to be wiser the next time: in-deed, the next time, though I could not get a tree proper for it, and was in a place where I could not get the water to it at any less distance than, as I have said, near half a mile, yet, as I saw it was practicable at last, I never gave it over; and though I was near two years about it, yet I never grudged my labour, in hopes of having a boat to go off to sea at last.
-- And now I was to launch out into the ocean, and either to venture or not to venture.
-- There were trees enough in the is-land to have built a little fleet, not of periaguas or canoes, but even of good, large vessels; but the main thing I looked at was, to get one so near the water that we might launch it when it was made, to avoid the mistake I committed at first.
-- And the first thing I did was to lay by a certain quantity of provisions, being the stores for our voyage; and intended in a week or a fortnight's time to open the dock, and launch out our boat.
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