shot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 开枪， 射击； 投篮； 弹丸， 炮弹， 子弹，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half so fast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness, he would have put himself in a fair way of getting shot instantly as a highwayman.
-- By degrees, as they could bear no more, they dropped off one by one, and lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the case-ments darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished.
-- Having said it, he passed behind the little counter, and stood with his hand on the back of his wife's chair, looking over that barrier at the person to whom they were both op-posed, and whom either of them would have shot with the greatest satisfaction.
-- Saint Antoine was clamorous to have its wine-shop keeper foremost in the guard upon the governor who had defended the Bastille and shot the people.
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：
-- Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torch-es.
-- At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and af-ter another year he was another long bit taller; for with fir trees one can always tell by the shoots how many years old they are.
-- The tendrils of the peas hung down over the boxes; and the rose-trees shot up long branches, twined round the win-dows, and then bent towards each other: it was almost like a triumphant arch of foliage and flowers.
-- She then sat down and wept; but her hot tears fell just where a rose-bush had sunk; and when her warm tears watered the ground, the tree shot up suddenly as fresh and blooming as when it had been swal-lowed up.
-- The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It was a bad shot from the right barrel," responded Stepan Arkadyevitch, loading his gun.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch shot two more birds and Levin two, of which one was not found.
-- He just had time to free his leg when she fell on one side, gasping painfully, and, making vain efforts to rise with her delicate, soaking neck, she fluttered on the ground at his feet like a shot bird.
-- Acted like a man, he did!Called him out and shot him!"
-- Of all that had been said, what stuck most in his memory was the phrase of stupid, good-natured Turovtsin--"ACTED LIKE A MAN, HE DID!CALLED HIM OUT AND SHOT HIM!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She defended herself like a true heroine with a revolver, which she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage made his appearance.
-- Several passengers, shot or stunned, lay on the seats.
-- The conductor was fighting beside Mr. Fogg, when he was shot and fell.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
-- Well, come back some day and we'll take a shot at the ducks, and have a good laugh about that bull you made over the smallpox.
-- How strange is conceit!That I who have been cursed and beaten by so many Great Ones, who was once led out to be shot in a Turkish prison, should never have been annoyed by them as by this smug wench.
-- The first darn' thing you do, you come have a shot of phage."
-- While they snowshoed and shot rabbits, and all the long dark evenings while they lay on their bellies before the fire, they ranted and planned.
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