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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tide was high, and no doubt there was abundance of water to float the ship over the dangerous bar; but these terrific breakers alternately lifting her up and then leaving her almost dry, would infallibly make her graze the sand-banks.
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：
-- returned the low, soft voice of the youthful chieftain; 'the Hurons float with the slimy eels!They drop from the oaks like fruit that is ready to be eaten!and the Delawares laugh!'
-- 'If the blood of an Oneida could stain such a sheet of pure water as this we float on,' returned the scout, 'your two eyes would answer your own question.
-- 'The canoe of a dead warrior will not float on the Hori-can,' returned the savage, gloomily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time as the coal, the store of wood was renewed at Granite House, and they profited by the current of the Mercy having again become free, to float down several rafts.
-- It is quite prepared for a voyage; and since it has floated here, it may just as well float to the mouth of the river."
-- The sea was already approaching the chest, and the high tide would evidently float it.
-- The voyage was continued, and as the Mercy appeared to flow not towards the shore, but rather towards Mount Franklin, it was decided that they should use the boat as long as there was enough water under its keel to float it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The narwhal seemed motionless; perhaps, tired with its day's work, it slept, letting itself float with the undulation of the waves.
-- Did it move, did it float on the surface of the ocean, or did it dive into its depths?
-- Moreover, it was the last day that the Nautilus would pass in these parts, if it float in open sea the next day, according to Captain Nemo's promise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And on them there seemed to float a film of disintegration, a sort of misery and sullenness, like oil on water.
-- Handsome was her stiff, long body, her straight-stepping white legs, there was a static magnificence about her as she let the cloak float loosely away from her striding.
-- "It'll float us all right," he said, and man脜聯uvred again to the island.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We hustled it on to the raft in a pile, and I told Jim to float along down, and show a light when he judged he had gone about two mile, and keep it burning till I come; then I manned my oars and shoved for the light.
-- It warn't no towhead that you could float by in ten minutes.
-- You float along down about twenty miles, and you'll come to a town on the left-hand side of the river.
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