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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his impetuous attempts to subdue the brightness of the fire, he overset the stove, which came tumbling forward, and fell with a crash upon the burning embers it had shot forth in its descent, leaving the room in pitchy darkness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skovorodnikoff, who was sitting opposite Wolf, continually gathering with his thick fingers his beard and mustache into his mouth, as soon as B脙漏 was through with his argument, stopped chewing his beard, and, in a loud, rasping voice, said that although the president of the stock company was a villain, he should favor a reversal if there were legal grounds to sustain it, but as there were none, he joined in the opinion of Ivan Semenovitch (B脙漏), and he invariably rejoiced at this shot aimed at Wolf.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
-- I had heard the word, and I knew it stood for a horrible kind of punishment common enough among the buccaneers, in which the offender is put ashore with a little powder and shot and left behind on some desolate and distant island.
-- The people in the log-house had them in every way; they stood quiet in shelter and shot the others like partridges.
-- This was the first that Jim heard, the sound of the squire's shot not having reached him.
-- "All's well with him; no fear for a hand that's been shot down in his duty to captain and owner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
-- But the shot passed some feet above the cetacean, which was half a mile off.
-- As soon as one shot was fired, another was ready.
-- At ten yards and a half deep, we walked amidst a shoal of little fishes of all kinds, more numerous than the birds of the air, and also more agile; but no aquatic game worthy of a shot had as yet met our gaze, when at that moment I saw the Captain shoulder his gun quickly, and follow a moving object into the shrubs.
-- Happily Conseil, to his great surprise, made a double shot and secured breakfast.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know he shot his brother?"
-- And then, like a dart, it had shot out of the room, through the open window-doors, and into the garden.
-- Then there was the far-off sound of firing, then the later news that the mob was dispersed, one man was shot dead, the fire was put out.
-- Round and round the court it went, as if shot from a gun, round and round like a furry meteorite, in a tense hard circle that seemed to bind their brains.
-- Darts of bright light shot asunder, darkness swept over the centre.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Lintons heard us, and with one accord they shot like arrows to the door; there was silence, and then a cry, "Oh, mamma, mamma!Oh, papa!Oh, mamma, come here.
-- I went to hide little Hareton, and to take the shot out of the master's fowling piece, which he was fond of playing with in his insane excitement, to the hazard of the lives of any who provoked, or even attracted his notice too much; and I had hit upon the plan of removing it, that he might do less mischief if he did go the length of firing the gun.
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