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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am even not sorry—"But no one ever knew what he was not sorry about, for the poor man was obliged to swallow down the rest of his sentence with half a pint of muddy water.
-- Mulrady was laid on his side, with his head and chest well raised, and Lady Helena succeeded in making him swallow a few drops of water.
-- Then he drew a great deep breath of air, as other people swallow a draught of water to revive themselves.
-- Those whom the liquid fire had not touched fled to the surrounding hills; then turned, and gazed in terror at this fearful phenomenon, this volcano in which the anger of their deity would swallow up the profane intruders on the sacred mountain.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- Thus will one of them say, and may the earth then swallow me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Swallow up everybody else, and welcome.
-- Under the latter great wrong, a few suffered dreadfully particularly on Sundays, when they had for some time expected the earth to open and swallow the public up; but which desirable event had not yet occurred, in consequence of some reprehensible laxity in the arrangements of the Universe.
-- Mr Flintwinch, who had been observantly pausing all this time with a cup of tea in his hand, and his mouth open ready to swallow the contents, began to do so: always entirely filling his mouth before he emptied it at a gulp; and always deliberating again before he refilled it.
-- He wouldn't have drunk from a glass of water under such circumstances not even in a respectable house like this, my Flintwinch unless he had seen one of them drink first, and swallow too!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Jo, with a clutch, as if she feared the night would swallow him up be-fore she could get him in.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah 'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'"
-- Flukes and flames!Bildad, say that again to me, and start my soul-bolts, but I'll I'll yes, I'll swallow a live goat with all his hair and horns on.
-- Swallow thine, mannikin!White skin, white liver!
-- One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew story was this: He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles, embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head a peculiarity only true with respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this saying, "A penny roll would choke him"; his swallow is so very small.
-- For he never means to swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as the waves were not so high as at first, being nearer land, I held my hold till the wave abated, and then fetched another run, which brought me so near the shore that the next wave, though it went over me, yet did not so swallow me up as to carry me away; and the next run I took, I got to the main-land, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from dan-ger and quite out of the reach of the water.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie disliked his appearance, but she was too much the actress not to swallow his qualities with complaisance, seeing that she must suffer his fictitious love for the evening.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's told some stretchers, I reckon, and I said I wouldn't swallow it all; and that's every bit and grain I DID say.
-- So they'd got to work that off I never see such a girafft as the king was for want- ing to swallow -EVERYTHING.
-- No; the way all the best authori- ties does is to saw the bed-leg in two, and leave it just so, and swallow the sawdust, so it can't be found, and put some dirt and grease around the sawed place so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign of it's being sawed, and thinks the bed-leg is perfectly sound.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you are not a fish, why did you let this monster swallow you?"
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