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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He distinctly remembered holding the candle while Mrs. Hall shot these bolts overnight.
-- At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room.
-- He felt a muscular chest, and in another moment the whole mass of struggling, excited men shot out into the crowded hall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky; and suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into a vivid realisa-tion of my own danger.
-- Montgomery shot the thing.
-- The earlier animals, hot and weary with their grovelling, shot vicious glances at him.
-- Then suddenly a shot close by.
-- One he shot through the head; M'ling flung himself upon the other, and the two rolled grappling.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The re-sult was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost where he left ground.
-- But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eat-ing bad food, and many were missing.
-- The second squadron of the Lancers shot by, and there was the troop-horse, with his tail like spun silk, his head pulled into his breast, one ear forward and one back, setting the time for all his squadron, his legs go-ing as smoothly as waltz music.
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：
-- A gleam of exultation shot across the darkly-painted lineaments of the inhabitant of the forest, as he traced the route of his intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward, the light and graceful forms of the females waving among the trees, in the cur-vatures of their path, followed at each bend by the manly figure of Heyward, until, finally, the shapeless person of the singing master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of trees, that rose, in dark lines, in the intermedi-ate space.
-- Their sus-pense, however, was soon relieved; for, aided by the skill of the natives, the canoe shot back into the eddy, and floated again at the side of the low rock, before they thought the scout had even time to rejoin his companions.
-- It was, however, easy to be seen, by the occasional gleams that shot across his swarthy visage, that it was only necessary to arouse his passions, in order to give full effect to the terrific device which he had adopted to -intimidate his enemies.
-- The savage struggled powerfully to gain the point of safety, and, favored by the glancing water, he was already stretch-ing forth an arm to meet the grasp of his companions, when he shot away again with the shirling current, appeared to rise into the air, with uplifted arms and starting eyeballs, and fell, with a sudden plunge, into that deep and yawn-ing abyss over which he hovered.
-- exclaimed Duncan, involuntarily shrinking from a shot which struck the rock at his side with a smart rebound.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shot fired among this swarm would have killed a great number, but to fire a shot a gun was needed, and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this, gulls and sea- mews are scarcely eatable, and even their eggs have a detestable taste.
-- A charge of small shot would have made great slaughter among these birds, but the hunters were still limited to sticks and stones, and these primitive weapons proved very insufficient.
-- One shot from a gun would certainly have brought down some dozen of the birds, they were so close together.
-- In some places, the wind, eddying round the corners, formed the snow into tall whirling columns, resembling those waterspouts which turn round on their base, and which vessels attack with a shot from a gun.
-- It is useless to add that Pencroft, Herbert, and Neb, thus armed, were at the summit of their happiness, although Cyrus Harding made them promise not to fire a shot unless it was necessary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
-- Animated with a ray of hope, the child shot on before her grandfather, and, going close to the stranger without rousing him by the sound of her footsteps, began, in a few faint words, to implore his help.
-- Absorbed in appearance, as we have seen, and feigning a profound abstraction, he noted every circumstance of his behaviour, and when he withdrew with his family, shot out after him.
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