swallow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 吞, 咽; 轻信, 轻易接受; 承受, 使不流露，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned Scrooge, 'I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Tvery great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridic-ulous exaggeration.
-- They bring him into the village; all the vil-lage runs to look; they take him past the mill, and up to the prison; all the village sees the prison gate open in the dark-ness of the night, and swallow him like this!'
-- 'It does not take a long time,' said madame, 'for an earth-quake to swallow a town.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was full of cracks from top to bottom; and out of the openings magpies and rooks were flying; and the great bull-dogs, each of which looked as if he could swallow a man, jumped up, but they did not bark, for that was forbidden.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc., etc.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he'll keep circling round me, getting nearer and nearer and then flop!He'll fly straight into my mouth and I'll swallow him, and that will be very amusing, he-he-he!You don't believe me?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Give me back my wife,give me back my family, substitute Micawber for the petty wretchwho walks about in the boots at present on my feet, and call uponme to swallow a sword to-morrow, and I'll do it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hot breeze, as if breathed from the parted lips of some dragon about to swallow the globe, fanned him from the south, while directly opposite in the north rose a grim misshapen body of cloud, in the very teeth of the wind.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wished the earth would open and swallow him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it asthough such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
-- After one swallow she pushed her cupaway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe got off with half a pint; but was made to swallow that (much to his disturbance, as he sat slowly munching and meditating before the fire), "because he had had a turn."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Partlet found a very large nut; but she said nothing about it to Chanticleer, and kept it all to her-self: however, it was so big that she could not swallow it, and it stuck in her throat.
-- The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, the student was to swallow upon a fasting stomach, and for three days following, eat nothing but bread and water.
-- He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of rea-son, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in or-der to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow 348 Gulliver's Travels(for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valu-able brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct he hadn't such advantages but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people the education that made him won't do for everybody, he knows well such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, there were periods in his discourse when he would finally give up and swallow his discomfiture--in a glass of water.
-- The gulf, thus suddenly thrown open, was about to swallow the inland seal which, transformed into a mighty torrent, was dragging us with it.
-- "Eat what remains of the food we have in our hands; let us swallow the last crumb.
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：
-- 'No, he'd hardly swallow me as a substitute breeder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
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