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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The DUNCAN was to sail out with the tide at three o'clock on the morning of the 25th of August.
-- He should have made me a sailor, for I dare say, at a push, I could reef a sail or plait a gasket easily enough."
-- Well now, the man at the helm has only to give a turn at the wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as to Concepcion; and since it is only a pleasure trip that you are—"His proposal was met by such grave, disapproving shakes of the head, that he stopped short before the sentence was completed; and Lady Helena said:"Monsieur Paganel, if we were only on a pleasure trip, I should reply, ‘Let us all go to India together,' and I am sure Lord Glenarvan would not object; but the DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination."
-- At the conclusion of Paganel's dissertation, Glenarvan announced that the DUNCAN would sail immediately for Australia.
-- The only question was, how long would she hold out with so little sail, and what sail could resist such violence for any length of time.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
-- As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.
-- Now, therefore, let us all do as I say: let us sail back to our own land, for we shall not take Troy.'
-- Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any ser-vice to him or no.
-- For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line.
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- The patched and dirty spankers were tense before the wind, and up aloft the little ship seemed carrying every sail she had.
-- I spent an increasing proportion of my time upon the beach, looking for some liberating sail that never appeared, until one day there fell upon us an appalling disaster, which put an altogether dif-ferent aspect upon my strange surroundings.
-- I saw a sail to the southwest, a small sail like that of a little schooner; and forthwith I lit a great pile of brush-wood, and stood by it in the heat of it, and the heat of the midday sun, watching.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- n the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent Ithe eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently short-ened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
-- A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as soon as it grew dusk in the evening, I changed my course, and steered directly south and by east, bending my course a little towards the east, that I might keep in with the shore; and having a fair, fresh gale of wind, and a smooth, quiet sea, I made such sail that I believe by the next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when I first made the land, I could not be less than one hundred and fifty miles south of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco's domin-ions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw no people.
-- Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by, and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an- hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither knew what the one or the other was; however, we were willing to accept it, but how to come at it was our next dispute, for I would not venture on shore to them, and they were as much afraid of us; but they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They contained a noble piece of water; a sail on which was to a form a great part of the morning's amusement; cold provisions were to be taken, open carriages only to be employed, and every thing conducted in the usual style of a complete party of pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'We sail for Liverpool from New York,'" Jessica exclaimed, mocking her acquaintance.
-- "Do you suppose the boat will sail promptly?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up.
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