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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would that the earth might open her jaws and swallow him, for Jove bred him to be the bane of the Trojans, and of Priam and Priam's sons.
-- This is the vaunt he will make, and may earth then swallow me.'
-- Then would one say, 'My friends, we can never again show our faces at the ships better, and greatly better, that earth should open and swallow us here in this place, than that we should let the Trojans have the triumph of bearing off Pa-troclus to their city.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HEN I saw Montgomery swallow a third dose of bran-Wdy, I took it upon myself to interfere.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While in view of their admir-ing comrades, the same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow up the liv-ing mass which had slowly entered its bosom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We might swallow dozens and dozens without exhausting the bed.
-- "Because the sands are still more dangerous than the rocks, for they swallow up everything that is thrown on them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is the way to keep off fever,' said Quilp, 'this is the way to keep off every calamity of life!We'll never leave off, all the time we stop here smoke away, you dog, or you shall swallow the pipe!'
-- Immediately flying to the bell, and calling for mulled wine as impetuously as if it had been wanted for instant use in the recovery of some person apparently drowned, the single gentleman made Kit's mother swallow a bumper of it at such a high temperature that the tears ran down her face, and then hustled her off to the chaise again, where not impossibly from the effects of this agreeable sedative she soon became insensible to his restlessness, and fell fast asleep.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this, and with my aid, Hands bound up the great bleeding stab he had received in the thigh, and after he had eaten a little and had a swallow or two more of the brandy, he began to pick up visibly, sat straighter up, spoke louder and clearer, and looked in every way another man.
-- At last, with a swallow or two, he spoke, his face still wearing the same expression of extreme perplexity.
-- And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also saw myriads of northern clios, one-and-a-quarter inches long, of which a whale would swallow a whole world at a mouthful; and some perfect sea-butterflies, animating the waters on the skirts of the shore.
-- We will fly to-night, even if the sea should swallow us up."
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：
-- I'm too big a fool to swallow your cleverness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, with the help of Satan, I shall make you swallow the carving knife, Nelly!You needn't laugh; for I've just crammed Kenneth, head downmost, in the Blackhorse marsh; and two is the same as one and I want to kill some of you: I shall have no rest till I do!
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