sail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 帆， 航行v. 航行，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.
-- I communicated to his majesty a project I had formed of seizing the enemy's whole fleet; which, as our scouts assured us, lay at anchor in the harbour, ready to sail with the first fair wind.
-- Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September 1701, at six in the morning; and when I had gone about four-leagues to 92 Gulliver's Travelsthe northward, the wind being at south-east, at six in the evening I descried a small island, about half a league to the north-west.
-- I discovered nothing all that day; but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when I had by my computation made twenty-four leagues from Blefuscu, I descried a sail steering to the south- east; my course was due east.
-- I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alas!a little Danish schooner, the Valkyrie, was to sail on the second of June for Reykjavik.
-- So natural did it seem, that every minute my imagination induced me to expect a vessel coming out under all sail and making for the open sea under the influence of a warm southerly breeze.
-- A mast, made of two pieces of wood fastened together, to give additional strength, a yard made from another one, the sail a linen sheet from our bed.
-- I then let go the painter which held us to the shore, the sail was brought to the wind, and we made a rapid offing.
-- The dense layers of atmosphere at that depth had great propelling power and acted upon the sail with considerable force.
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：
-- I'm like Saint Bernard, who could sail down the lake of Lucerne without ever noticing that there were even mountain and green wa-ter.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a place like this I'm sure to upset something, tread on people's toes, or do something dreadful, so I keep out of mischief and let Meg sail about.
-- But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, 'To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea' where...' 'Oh, gracious!What shall I say?'
-- 'I advise you to sail away in one of your ships, and never come home again till you have tried your own way,' said Jo, whose imagination was fired by the thought of such a dar-ing exploit, and whose sympathy was excited by what she called 'Teddy's Wrongs'.
-- The sail up the Rhine was perfect, and I just sat and en-joyed it with all my might.
-- I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-- I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
-- For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.
-- 'I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon sail ye, sir?'
-- 'We sail with the next coming tide,' at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon-don.
-- The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the Af-rican shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.
-- The castle, which is at the entrance of the port, knew who we were, and took no notice of us; and we were not above a mile out of the port before we hauled in our sail and set us down to fish.
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