hunt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 打猎， 猎取； (for) 搜索； 寻找，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：
-- In Australia they are stopped by jungles and by quagmires; they hunt kangaroos.
-- Besides, they would have it that the Indians, who made them prisoners, would have dragged them into the interior, and it was impossible, they said, to hunt all through Patagonia for three men—three Scotchmen; that the search would be vain and perilous, and cost more lives than it saved.
-- Paganel wished to get up a splendid spread in honor of the occasion, but as the materials were very scanty, he proposed to Robert to go and hunt in the neighboring forest.
-- I should begin a new life; I should hunt and fish; I should choose a grotto for my domicile in Winter and a tree in Summer.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical as-sistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.'
-- 'He thinks that it was unfair on our part to hunt his brother-in-law down when he, of his own free will, had told us the secret.'
-- I said it in London, Watson, and I say it again now, that never yet have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than he who is lying yonder' he swept his long arm towards the huge mottled expanse of green-splotched bog which stretched away until it merged into the russet slopes of the moor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Blood!but that old man's a grand old cove!We are the lads to hunt him up his whale!
-- white whale, shirr!shirr!Here have I heard all their chat just now, and the white whale shirr!shirr! but spoken of once!and only this evening it makes me jingle all over like my tambourine that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him!Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!
-- Nor is it so very unlikely, that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord!how was it possible I could get on shore After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dread-ful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hun-ger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, -either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs.
-- This evening, going farther into the valleys which lay towards the centre of the island, I found there were plenty of goats, though exceedingly shy, and hard to come at; however, I resolved to try if I could not bring my dog to hunt them down.
-- It was, therefore, a very good providence to me that I had furnished myself with a tame breed of goats, and that I had no need to hunt any more about the woods, or shoot at them; and if I did catch any of them after this, it was by traps and snares, as I had done before; so that for two years after this I believe I never fired my gun once off, though I never went out without it; and what was more, as I had saved three pistols out of the ship, I always carried them out with me, or at least two of them, sticking them in my goat-skin belt.
-- I fancied myself now like one of the ancient giants who were said to live in caves and holes in the rocks, where none could come at them; for I persuaded myself, while I was here, that if five hundred savages were to hunt me, they could never find me out - or if they did, they would not venture to attack me here.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned back, resolving to hunt up Storm and King and enter.
-- She would go down in the morning and hunt for work.
-- Her decision to hunt for work was moderately strong, but the money in her pocket, after all her troubling over it, made the work question the least shade less terrible.
-- Again, time hanging heavily on his hands, he went home early, and this continued for several days, each day the need to hunt paining him, and each day disgust, depression, shamefacedness driving him into lobby idleness.
-- He might hunt her out at the show and hound her in that way.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me.
-- I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.
-- They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
-- The river was a mile wide there, and it always looks pretty on a summer morning so I was having a good enough time seeing them hunt for my remainders if I only had a bite to eat.
-- So then they put it on him, you see; and while they was full of it, next day, back comes old Finn, and went boo-hooing to Judge Thatcher to get money to hunt for the nigger all over Illinois with.
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