current是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 电流， 水流； 潮流， 趋势a. 当前的； 流通的，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：
-- She fell in before long with the current from the coast of Brazil, and on the 7th of September entered the Southern hemisphere.
-- Five minutes afterward, and the horses were swimming; the current alone carried them along with tremendous force, and with a swiftness equal to their fastest gallop; they must have gone fully twenty miles an hour.
-- The horses very likely might not be able to get to it, but, at all events, the men would, the current bearing them right down to it.
-- Then stooping down and raising himself with a rapid motion, he made a violent current of air with his poncho, which made the wood take fire, and soon a bright flame roared in the improvised brasier.
-- Though they could not defend themselves from the waters above, they might at least keep out of the rushing current beneath.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the writing current then, and employed by public writers gen-erally.
-- Evidently the quiet, pleasant current of the family life of the Epanchins was about to undergo a change.
-- There were rumours current as to Gania, too; but circum-stances soon contradicted these.
-- He left a fortune of several millions in good current coin, and every-thing came to our noble scion, our gaitered baron, formerly treated for idiocy in a Swiss lunatic asylum.
-- I was criticizing a current report of something which then happened, and having been myself an eyewitness of the occurrence you are smiling, prince you are looking at my face as if ' 'Oh no!not at all I ' 'I am rather young-looking, I know; but I am actually older than I appear to be.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The current cant required my attendance at his funeral, but it was really not my affair.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they went farther north they held a bowing council every few hours, and Kotick nearly bit off his mustache with impatience till he saw that they were following up a warm current of water, and then he respected them more.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Does not this stream at our feet run toward the summer, until its waters grow salt, and the current flows upward?'
-- They call this up-stream current the tide, which is a thing soon explained, and clear enough.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, for the most part, silly and graced by the current slang.
-- Every little while her eyes would meet his, and by that means the interchanging current of feeling would be fully connected.
-- He took Carrie's little hand, and a current of feeling swept from one to the other.
-- Now she was persuaded by secret current feelings which Drouet had never understood.
-- She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
-- Of course I was where the current set in the closest to the shore I knowed enough for that.
-- Every-body was talking about the murder, but the captain broke in and says: 'Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.
-- When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lone-some, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.
-- 'I see a light a-comin' roun' de p'int bymeby, so I wade' in en shove' a log ahead o' me en swum more'n half way ac-rost de river, en got in 'mongst de drift- wood, en kep' my head down low, en kinder swum agin de current tell de raff come along.
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