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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a single elevated point was visible on the whole circle of the horizon, and on such level plains water would sweep along with fearful rapidity.
-- The waves were already beginning to dash over the side of the ship, and the sea might any moment sweep right over her from stem to stern.
-- The vessel will have a hard fight with the waves, and they would sweep you over without mercy."
-- At others, she would keep pace with them, and make such enormous leaps that there was imminent danger of her being pitched over on her side, and then again, every now and then the storm-driven sea would out-distance the yacht, and the angry billows would sweep over the deck from stem to stern with tremendous violence.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shudder seemed to sweep over his whole body at the recollection.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As one who has grown a fine young olive tree in a clear space where there is abun-dance of water the plant is full of promise, and though the winds beat upon it from every quarter it puts forth its white blossoms till the blasts of some fierce hurricane sweep down upon it and level it with the ground even so did Menelaus strip the fair youth Euphorbus of his armour after he had slain him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the broad sweep of a bay to the westward became visible, and I halted again.
-- A little point of light shone on the further bend of the curve, and the grey sweep of the sandy beach lay faint under the star-light.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Probably I know how much I have suffered better than any one ha I say than any one!If I can put that aside, if I can eradicate the marks of what I have endured, and can emerge before the world a ha gentleman unspoiled, unspotted is it a great deal to expect I say again, is it a great deal to expect that my children should hum do the same and sweep that accursed experience off the face of the earth?'
-- Saunterers pricked up their attention to observe it; busy people, crossing it, slackened their pace and turned their heads; companions pausing and standing aside, whispered one another to look at this spectral woman who was coming by; and the sweep of the figure as it passed seemed to create a vortex, drawing the most idle and most curious after it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It isn't low-necked, and it doesn't sweep enough, but it will have to do.
-- No, they should think a little, and sweep mud in the street before they do this thing.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?
-- I had been cutting up some caper or other I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.
-- Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
-- Childe Harold not unfrequently perches himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, and in moody phrase ejaculates: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain."
-- Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even after all her depressing conclusions, she could sweep away all thought about the matter and then the twenty dollars seemed a wonderful and delightful thing.
-- Chapter VIII INTIMATIONS BY WINTER--AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONED Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is but a wisp in the wind.
-- If she could but stroll up yon broad walk, cross that rich entrance-way, which to her was of the beauty of a jewel, and sweep in grace and luxury to possession and command--oh!how quickly would sadness flee; how, in an instant, would the heartache end.
-- She felt a wave of feeling sweep over her at this.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river soft- ened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a woodyard, likely, and piled by them cheats so you can throw a dog through it anywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there, so cool and fresh and sweet to smell on account of the woods and the flowers; but sometimes not that way, because they've left dead fish laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank; and next you've got the full day, and every- thing smiling in the sun, and the song-birds just going it!
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