jet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 喷气发动机， 喷气式飞机； 喷口v. 喷出， 喷射，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：
-- As these visions passed rapidly through his mind, every now and then he was roused by the crackling of the fire, or sparks flying out, or some little jet of flame would suddenly flare up and illumine the faces of his slumbering companions.
-- An intermittent jet of scarlet blood flowed from it; the patient's paleness and weakness showed that he was seriously injured.
-- The temperature of the surface stratum was very high, and a thermometer plunged into the soil would have marked from 160 to 170 degrees; in fact, Olbinett narrowly missed being scalded, for just as he had scooped a hole for the roots, a jet of vapor sprang up and with a whistling sound rose six feet above the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunlight penetrated, the stranger, hungry we must suppose, and fearful, hidden in his uncomfortable hot wrappings, pored through his dark glasses upon his paper or chinked his dirty little bottles, and occasionally swore savagely at the boys, audible if invisible, outside the windows.
-- It is almost as invisible as a jet of coal gas or hydrogen is in air.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gas jet threw its full light on the bloodless, sunken face under the black hat and on the white cravat, brilliant against the beaver of the coat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among them I remember a double set ofpigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, apair of jet ear- rings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, acanary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their Scotch bonnets, ornamented with plumes of jet black feathers, Mr Grinder carried on his instrument.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- None of the old colour had as yet come to her cheek, and its absolute paleness was heightened by the jet black of her gown, till it appeared preternatural.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared withthe dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From between their stony knees trees sprang, like a jet under heavy pressure, and upheld others which upheld them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The veins and arteries spouted up such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so high in the air, that the great jet d'eau at Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hot water jet supported my view of the matter.
-- Right above our heads, at a great height, opened the crater of a volcano from which escaped, from one quarter of an hour to the other, with a very loud explosion, a lofty jet of flame mingled with pumice stone, cinders, and lava.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was dressed in black and rusty iron grey; had jet black beads of eyes; a scrubby little black chin; wiry black hair striking out from his head in prongs, like forks or hair-pins; and a complexion that was very dingy by nature, or very dirty by art, or a compound of nature and art.
-- And so, with the last sobs and last loving words, and a last look to Clennam of confidence in his promise, Pet fell back in the carriage, and her husband waved his hand, and they were away for Dover; though not until the faithful Mrs Tickit, in her silk gown and jet black curls, had rushed out from some hiding-place, and thrown both her shoes after the carriage: an apparition which occasioned great surprise to the distinguished company at the windows.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wed-ding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- (Fin-Back). Under this head I reckon a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and Long-John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet-tracks.
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.
-- Was it not so, O Morquan!King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against the sky?
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