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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll go on to the first bend, and see if it's all right before we begin to race,' Amy heard him say, as he shot away, look-ing like a young Russian in his fur-trimmed coat and cap.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
-- Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us.
-- Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights.
-- The fire hissed in the waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe made.
-- (Aside) Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sikes, pointing to the street-door with the pistol-barrel, briefly advised him to take notice that he was within shot all the way; and that if he faltered, he would fall dead that instant.
-- If they shot him dead, I was not the cause; do you hear me?
-- With this parting advice, Mr. Crackit, preferring the chance of being shot by his friend, to the certainty of being taken by his enemies, fairly turned tail, and darted off at full speed.
-- bawled Giles, calling in a state of great excitement, up the staircase; 'here's one of the thieves, ma'am!Here's a thief, miss!Wounded, miss!I shot him, miss; and Brittles held the light.'
-- The fact was, that Mr. Giles had not, at first, been able to bring his mind to the avowal, that he had only shot a boy.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and bringing to, by mistake, just athwart our quarter, instead of athwart our stern, as he intended, we brought eight of our guns to bear on that side, and poured in a broadside upon him, which made him sheer off again, after returning our fire, and pouring in also his small shot from near two hundred men which he had on board.
-- I took the best aim I could with the first piece to have shot him in the head, but he lay so with his leg raised a little above his nose, that the slugs hit his leg about the knee and broke the bone.
-- I was a little surprised that I had not hit him on the head; however, I took up the second piece immediately, and though he began to move off, fired again, and shot him in the head, and had the pleasure to see him drop and make but little noise, but lie struggling for life.
-- 'Well, go,' said I: so the boy jumped into the water and taking a little gun in one hand, swam to shore with the other hand, and coming close to the creature, put the muzzle of the piece to his ear, and shot him in the head again, which despatched him quite.
-- This was game indeed to us, but this was no food; and I was very sorry to lose three charges of powder and shot upon a creature that was good for nothing to us.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood complied and the car shot away, followed by a rattle of stones and a rain of curses.
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 shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
-- I'd a shot him.
-- I shot this fel- low and took him into camp.
-- I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
-- I had my gun along, but I hadn't shot nothing; it was for protection; thought I would kill some game nigh home.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It thundered, and bright flashes of lightning now and again shot across the sky, turning it into a sea of fire.
-- Without a moment's hesitation, he started to step over him, but he had just raised one leg when the Serpent shot up like a spring and the Marionette fell head over heels backward.
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