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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally, he shot himself out of his equipage headforemost over the apron; and I saw him on one occasion deliver himself at the door of the Grove in this unintentional way--like coals.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
-- So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
-- 'How does that shot please you, com-rade?'
-- Two hundred deer and more came running inside the circle at once, and the huntsmen shot them.
-- The huntsman took up his bow, and at one shot struck all the five eggs as his father wished.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
-- I walked very circumspectly, for fear of being surprised, or suddenly shot with an arrow from behind, or 280 Gulliver's Travelson either side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.
-- 'Dropped, sir, as if she was shot when I told her!Never knew her do such a thing before.
-- It was the conception of an inspired moment, and she shot off with her utmost swiftness to work it out.
-- With his very ears a bright purple shot with crimson, he pent up his indignation, however, and said:'You'd like to keep her here for a time?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several times I found myself asking, what mountain was it, and on what part of the world we should be shot out.
-- At last I saw the figure of Hans as if enveloped in the huge halo of burning blaze, and no other sense remained to me but that sinister dread which the condemned victim may be supposed to feel when led to the mouth of a cannon, at the supreme moment when the shot is fired and his limbs are dispersed into empty space.
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：
-- 'No wonder the child cried,' she said, 'if you shot it when she was there.
-- 'Connie Mellors!Well, that's a nice name!And did you come out with your Daddy, and he shot a pussy?
-- 'He was there,' said Connie, 'but he'd shot a poaching cat, and the child was upset.'
-- Yet he could live alone, in the wan satisfaction of being alone, and raise pheasants to be shot ultimately by fat men after breakfast.
-- This last time, I'd have shot her like I shoot a stoat, if I'd but been al-lowed: a raving, doomed thing in the shape of a woman!If only I could have shot her, and ended the whole misery!It ought to be allowed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow.
-- For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
-- A swift thought shot into his mind.
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- He was a singular man in all respects; he might not have been quite in earnest, but that the short, hard, rapid manner in which he shot out these cinders of principles, as if it were done by mechanical revolvency, seemed irreconcilable with banter.
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