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：
-- For many minutes the struggle between the light bubble in which they floated and the swift current was severe and doubtful.
-- One arm of the river flowed through a deep, narrow ravine, which its current had worn in the soft rock, directly beneath his feet, forming an effectual de-fense, as he believed, against any danger from that quarter; the water, a few rods above them, plunging, glancing, and sweeping along in its most violent and broken manner.
-- 'Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side,' he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; 'and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was obvious that to him Blanche Stroeve was only a unit to be added to the statistical list of attempted suicides in the city of Paris during the current year.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1,500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
-- Now, on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water, and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there.
-- The current here was quite rapid, and drifted down some dead wood.
-- 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.
-- Top held him up by his clothes; but a strong current seized him and drove him towards the north, and after half an hour of exertion, he sank, dragging Top with him into the depths.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I trace the same current now, flowing through all his quiet and unobtrusive proceedings. I am about to sign my name, you observe, at the foot of the articles which Mr Chuckster will witness; and placing my finger upon this blue wafer with the vandyked corners, I am constrained to remark in a distinct tone of voice don't be alarmed, ma'am, it is merely a form of law that I deliver this, as my act and deed.
-- After a moment's hesitation, the young man stretched out his to meet it; Quilp clutched his fingers in a grip that for the moment stopped the current of the blood within them, and pressing his other hand upon his lip and frowning towards the unsuspicious Richard, released them and sat down.
-- He had not expected that the house would wear any different aspect had known indeed that it could not but coming upon it in the midst of eager thoughts and expectations, it checked the current in its flow, and darkened it with a mournful shadow.
-- Having now arrived at the conclusion of his discourse, Sampson checked the current of his wrath, kissed his glove again, and smiled as only parasites and cowards can.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She trembled from head to foot, as if an electric current had passed through her, and terror was reflected on her face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is the drift of the current in spite of the eddies.
-- But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud thud thud, like the beating of some big engine; and I discovered, from the flaring of my matches, that a steady current of air set down the shafts.
-- The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer.
-- It seemed odd how it floated into my mind: not stirred up as it were by the current of my meditations, but coming in almost like a question from outside.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a strong current runs along the south, and then away nor'ard up the west coast.
-- In the second place, the ebb was now making a strong rippling current running westward through the basin, and then south'ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning.
-- If we let the current have its way we should come ashore beside the gigs, where the pirates might appear at any moment.
-- You see, sir," he went on, "if once we dropped to leeward of the landing-place, it's hard to say where we should get ashore, besides the chance of being boarded by the gigs; whereas, the way we go the current must slacken, and then we can dodge back along the shore."
-- By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, I was already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations.
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