float是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 浮子, 浮标; (游行中的) 彩车; v. 漂浮, 筹资开办, 使(币值) 浮动，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The swing moves, and the bubbles float in charming changing colors: the last is still hanging to the end of the pipe, and rocks in the breeze.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not walk, but seemed, by some unseen force, to float to him.
-- The elder had just dropped in the hook, and was carefully pulling the float from behind a bush, entirely absorbed in what he was doing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What would these divinities think of India, anglicised as it is to-day, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges, frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what if the boxes were to float instead of sinking?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Icould not help fancying now, that it moaned of those who weregone; and instead of thinking that the sea might rise in the nightand float the boat away, I thought of the sea that had risen, since Ilast heard those sounds, and drowned my happy home.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to en-counter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Perhaps she'll float off into space altogether,' said Dukes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jeremiah, the captain deserts the ship, but you and I will sink or float with it.'
-- There had been no more water on the bar than had sufficed to float the packet in; and now the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown as it lay asleep.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- But this difficulty is ingeniously overcome: a small, strong line is prepared with a wooden float at its outer end, and a weight in its middle, while the other end is secured to the ship.
-- By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with its broad flukes or lobes.
-- Oh, ye foolish!throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
-- Speak, weaver! stay thy hand! but one single word with thee!Nay the shuttle flies the figures float from forth the loom; the freshet-rushing carpet for ever slides away.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - Worked on the wreck; cut another beam asun-der, and brought three great fir planks off from the decks, which I tied together, and made to float on shore when the tide of flood came on.
-- We had stowed our new vessel as secure as we could, bringing her up into the creek, where, as I said in the beginning, I landed my rafts from the ship; and hauling her up to the shore at high-water mark, I made my man Friday dig a little dock, just big enough to hold her, and just deep enough to give her water enough to float in; and then, when the tide was out, we made a strong dam across the end of it, to keep the wa-ter out; and so she lay, dry as to the tide from the sea: and to keep the rain off we laid a great many boughs of trees, so thick that she was as well thatched as a house; and thus we waited for the months of November and December, in which I designed to make my adventure.
-- she'll float next tide;' by which I was fully confirmed in the main inquiry of what countrymen they were.
-- I knew it was no less than ten hours before the boat could float again, and by that time it would be dark, and I might be at more liberty to see their motions, and to hear their discourse, if they had any.
-- CHAPTER XVIII - THE SHIP RECOVEREDWHILE we were thus preparing our designs, and had first, by main strength, heaved the boat upon the beach, so high that the tide would not float her off at high-water mark, and besides, had broke a hole in her bottom too big to be quick-ly stopped, and were set down musing what we should do, we heard the ship fire a gun, and make a waft with her -ensign as a signal for the boat to come on board - but no boat stirred; and they fired several times, making other signals for the boat.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was letting her few supports float away from her.
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 knowed mighty well that a drownded man don't float on his back, but on his face.
-- Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there.
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