sweep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 扫, 扫除; 连绵区域; 激流; vt. 扫除; 掠过; 连绵, 延伸，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A memorable storm of thunder and lightning broke with that sweep of water, and there was not a moment's interval in crash, and fire, and rain, until after the moon rose at midnight.
-- But, there remained a broken country, bold and open, a little village at the bottom of the hill, a broad sweep and rise beyond it, a churchtower, a windmill, a forest for the chase, and a crag with a fortress on it used as a prison.
-- A light, or a shade (the old gentleman could not have said which), passed from it as swiftly as a change will sweep over a hill-side on a wild bright day, and he lifted his foot to put back one of the little flaming logs, which was tumbling forward.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hawk flew high over a forest far away with slow sweep of its wings; another flew with exactly the same motion in the same direction and vanished.
-- Tit moved on with sweep after sweep of his scythe, not stopping or showing signs of weariness.
-- She sent for the doctor, sent to the chemist's, set the maid who had come with her and Marya Nikolaevna to sweep and dust and scrub; she herself washed up something, washed out something else, laid something under the quilt.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he watched them sweep across the wheat, his sun-drowsed spirit was part of the great land, and he was almost freed of the impatience with which he had started out from Wheatsylvania.
-- He found a sort of maid, and came home to help, to wipe the dishes and sweep the front walk.
-- Buying note-books!Hiring women that sweep floors!Or no--the floors are swept by women hired by the superintendent of the building, nicht wahr?
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：
-- He opened his hand, stared at the coin, and with a sweep of his arm flung it into the water; then he turned and went home.
-- We will make a clean sweep of all these psychological points, of a suspicion against you, so that your crime will appear to have been something like an aberration, for in truth it was an aberration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Atlast I awake, very queer about the head, as from a giddy sleep, andsee the butcher walking off, congratulated by the two otherbutchers and the sweep and publican, and putting on his coat as hegoes; from which I augur, justly, that the victory is his.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now,' said Emma, when they were fairly beyond the sweep gates, 'now Mr. Weston, do let me know what has happened.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this criticism of her statement Bathsheba made an addition to her dignity by a slight sweep away from him.
-- When she got a little further round to the left, and drew nearer, Bathsheba could see the newcomer's profile against the sunny sky, and knew the wavy sweep from forehead to chin, with neither angle nor decisive line anywhere about it, to be the familiar contour of Liddy Smallbury.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the soldier, 'get to your work at once!Fetch the broom and sweep the chamber.'
-- 'I was carried through the streets with the rapidity of light-ning,' said she, 'and taken into a soldier's room, and I had to wait upon him like a servant, sweep his room, clean his boots, and do all kinds of menial work.
-- 'Sweep me the room as clean as you can, Up with the window, fling out my old man!
-- Then they said, 'Yes, Miss Cat-skin, you will do for the kitchen; you can sweep up the ashes, and do things of that sort.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a sweep of some half-mile between the lodge and the house, and he was riding along at a foot pace over the smooth gravel, once Nickits's, when Mr. Bounderby burst out of the shrubbery, with such violence as to make his horse shy across the road.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let the wind strike us and do its worst, let the storm sweep us away where it will--only let me see the glimmer of some coast--of some rocky cliffs, even if they dash our raft into a thousand pieces.
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：
-- He sat looking at the greenish sweep of the riding downwards, a clear way through the bracken and oaks.
-- Then he came round the great trees at the top of the knoll, on to the drive, which made a grand sweep round a lozenge of grass in front of the entrance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say, sweep it off the face of the earth and begin afresh.
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