embark是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 上船; 从事; 开始，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the Achaeans may try to fly beyond the sea by night, and they must not embark scatheless and unmolest-ed; many a man among them must take a dart with him to nurse at home, hit with spear or arrow as he is leaping on board his ship, that others may fear to bring war and weep-ing upon the Trojans.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had managed to embark on the Rangoon at Calcutta without being seen by Passepartout, after leaving orders that, if the warrant should arrive, it should be forwarded to him at Hong Kong; and he hoped to conceal his presence to the end of the voyage.
-- On reaching the quay where they were to embark on the Carnatic, he was not astonished to find Fix walking up and down.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft did not intend to let the raft go away in the current without guidance, neither did he mean to embark on it himself to steer it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them in-creased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, I was in a state of painful indecision--I desired to embark on the journey and to succeed, and still I feared the result.
-- We shall embark tomorrow."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.
-- Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
-- Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
-- So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here I meditated nothing but my escape, and what meth-od I might take to effect it, but found no way that had the least probability in it; nothing presented to make the sup-position of it rational; for I had nobody to communicate it to that would embark with me - no fellow-slave, no English-man, Irishman, or Scotchman there but myself; so that for two years, though I often pleased myself with the imagi-nation, yet I never had the least encouraging prospect of putting it in practice.
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