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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can take the herd round through the jungle to the head of the ravine and then sweep down but he would slink out at the foot.
-- Then Little Toomai laid himself down close to the great neck lest a swinging bough should sweep him to the ground, and he wished that he were back in the lines again.
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：
-- returned Hawkeye, who, however, immediately added in his sim-plicity, 'the down stream current, it is certain, might soon sweep us beyond the reach of their rifles or the sound of their voices.'
-- Hawk-eye soon got another enemy within reach of his arm, and with one sweep of his formidable weapon he beat down the slight and inartificial defenses of his antagonist, crushing him to the earth with the blow.
-- suddenly exclaimed a voice above them; 'wait to see the enemy, fire low and sweep the glacis.'
-- 'Nothing but vast wisdom and unlimited power should dare to sweep off men in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgment; and what is there, short of the other, that can replace the crea-tures of the Lord?
-- There the beasts have been bound to a sapling, in waiting; and yonder runs the broad path away to the north, in full sweep for the Cana-das.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Employed in houses, they can wait at table, sweep rooms, brush clothes, clean boots, handle a knife, fork, and spoon properly, and even drink wine,... doing everything as well as the best servant that ever walked upon two legs.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You will now, gentlemen, walk into the court," said the usher, pointing to the door with a polite sweep of the hand.
-- The chanter, evidently out of respect for Nekhludoff, wished to sweep around him, and thus it happened that he grazed Katiousha.
-- These new brooms only take a longer time to sweep, but do not sweep any cleaner."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the mystery of that last night during which we had been chained in prison, the sleep, and the precaution so violently taken by the Captain of snatching from my eyes the glass I had raised to sweep the horizon, the mortal wound of the man, due to an unaccountable shock of the Nautilus, all put me on a new track.
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：
-- Then he seemed to sweep out of life, to be a projectile into the beyond.
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