sway是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 摇摆; 统治, 支配，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to sway about as she sat, and looked and looked at me in the strang-est way.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Lit-tle Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This the tings said to him, but another voice in his heart was telling him that he must not fall under the sway of the past, and that one can do anything with oneself.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, the place still con-tinues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
-- He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became won-derfully gentle and ingratiating.
-- He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The animal man that dwelled in him not only raised his head, but crushed under foot the spiritual man that he was when he first arrived at the manor, and was even this very morning in church, and that terrible animal man now held sway in his soul.
-- By the expression of Matriena Pavlovna's face he saw that she condemned him, and justly so; he knew that what he was doing was wrong, but the animal feeling, which succeeded his former feeling of pure love to her, seized him and held sole sway over him; recognizing no other feeling.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Marquis felt the imperious sway of passion in her gesture; he came 莽卢卢33 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 back towards her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chance or rather the evil influence, the Angel of De-struction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural phi-losophy.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 9 HE entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act of stowing his son sway in the kitchen cupboard.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.
-- No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
-- If I had sky-sail poles, I'd sway them up now."
-- "Stand by to sway me up!"
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