leak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 漏洞, 泄漏，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：
-- A leak sprang in the hold, and could not be stopped.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rather hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away!At first she watched me in amazement.
-- The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarce-ly remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a leak could not be stopped; and the Scotia, her paddles half submerged, was obliged to continue her course.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.
-- He peremptorily denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful.
-- But the captain, having some unusual reason for believing that rare good luck awaited him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to quit them, and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous, though, indeed, they could not find it after searching the hold as low down as was possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued her cruisings, the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy intervals; but no good luck came; more days went by, and not only was the leak yet undiscovered, but it sensibly increased.
-- "Though no small passage was before her, yet, if the commonest chance favoured, he did not at all fear that his ship would founder by the way, because his pumps were of the best, and being periodically relieved at them, those six-and-thirty men of his could easily keep the ship free; never mind if the leak should double on her.
-- "It was not more than a day or two at the furthest after pointing her prow for her island haven, that the Town-Ho's leak seemed again increasing, but only so as to require an hour or more at the pumps every day.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
-- And when they got there they bent over and looked in the coffin, and took one sight, and then they bust out a-crying so you could a heard them to Orleans, most; and then they put their arms around each other's necks, and hung their chins over each other's shoul- ders; and then for three minutes, or maybe four, I never see two men leak the way they done.
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