bow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 鞠躬， 点头n. 弓(形) ； 蝴蝶结，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 only want to know one thing more, my dear Paganel," he said, "and then I must bow to your perspicacity."
-- The breakers increased under the bow of the vessel, and it was necessary to put her about to regain the open sea.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ardalion Alexandrovitch Ivolgin,' said the smiling general, with a low bow of great dignity, 'an old soldier, un-fortunate, and the father of this family; but happy in the hope of including in that family so exquisite ' He did not finish his sentence, for at this moment Fer-dishenko pushed a chair up from behind, and the general, not very firm on his legs, at this post-prandial hour, flopped into it backwards.
-- He made me a bow and arrow, and I shot a pigeon.
-- But the bow with which General Ivolgin greeted him irritated him anew; he frowned, and decided to be ab-solutely silent.
-- Evgenie Pavlovitch, too, found plenty of friends to bow to.
-- I must absolutely speak to you about something which is most grave,' said Lebedeff, mysteriously and solemnly, entering the room with a bow and looking extremely important.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.
-- He sat him-self down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.
-- They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.
-- His fool's heart was persuaded, and he took his bow from its case.
-- This bow was made from the horns of a wild ibex which he had killed as it was bounding from a rock; he had stalked it, and it had fallen as the arrow struck it to the heart.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bow down!'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see you bow gracefully, but I should like to know your names.'
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：
-- For a moment he appeared to be conscious of having the worst of the argument, then, rallying again, he answered the objection of his antagonist in the best manner his limited information would allow: 'I am no scholar, and I care not who knows it; but, judg-ing from what I have seen, at deer chases and squirrel hunts, of the sparks below, I should think a rifle in the hands of their grandfathers was not so dangerous as a hickory bow and a good flint-head might be, if drawn with Indian judg-ment, and sent by an Indian eye.'
-- When within a few yards of the cover, he fitted an arrow to his bow with the utmost care, while the antlers moved, as if their owner snuffed an enemy in the tainted air.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance. 'I am ruined for ever in their opinion ' said I to myself 'I am shut out for ever from their society, they already think me an unprincipled fellow, this letter will only make them think me a blackguard one.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw the new bow in her hair and the new way of arranging her locks which she affected one morning.
-- Friends there were, as the world takes it--those who would bow and smile in acknowledgment of her success.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest.
-- He said we ought to bow when we spoke to him, and say 'Your Grace,' or 'My Lord,' or 'Your Lordship' and he wouldn't mind it if we called him plain 'Bridgewater,' which, he said, was a title anyway, and not a name; and one of us ought to wait on him at dinner, and do any little thing for him he wanted done.
-- and the clown crack- ing jokes behind him; and by and by all hands dropped the reins, and every lady put her knuckles on her hips and every gentleman folded his arms, and then how the horses did lean over and hump themselves!And so one after the other they all skipped off into the ring, and made the sweetest bow I ever see, and then scampered out, and everybody clapped their hands and went just about wild.
-- And, then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw, and he lit into that horse with his whip and made him fairly hum and finally skipped off, and made his bow and danced off to the dressing-room, and everybody just a-howling with pleasure and astonishment.
-- Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.
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