swarm是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (昆虫等) 一大群; vi. 成群飞舞; 蜂拥而入,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:
-- But their slumbers were invaded by a swarm of mosquitoes, which allowed them no peace.
-- It was here that the swarm of diggers alighted in 1852; the natives had to fly to the interior.
-- Occasionally a swarm of par-roquets flew along a distant path, and lighted it up for an instant with gay colors; but otherwise, solemn silence reigned in this vast green temple, and the tramp of the horses, a few words exchanged with each other by the riders, the grinding noise of the wheels, and from time to time a cry from Ayrton to stir up his lazy team, were the only sounds which disturbed this immense solitude.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These infernal people seem to think that there are no rights of property, and that they can swarm where they like with their papers and their bottles.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole Charity School, just opposite, would be in motion; all the new booths, with their not very courtier-like swarm of sea-men, would join them out of curiosity, and would greet him with a wild 'hurrah!'
-- 'Yes,' said the grandmother, 'she flies where the swarm hangs in the thickest clusters.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No, indeed, Konstantin Mitritch!All we can do to keep our own!This is the second swarm that has flown away.... Luckily the lads caught them.
-- Only overhead in the birches under which he stood, the flies, like a swarm of bees, buzzed unceasingly, and from time to time the children's voices were floated across to him.
-- The words uttered by the peasant had acted on his soul like an electric shock, suddenly transforming and combining into a single whole the whole swarm of disjointed, impotent, separate thoughts that incessantly occupied his mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As, how he had not yet been married twelve 226months to the beautiful young lady I had seen in the study, whomhe had married for love; for she had not a sixpence, and had aworld of poor relations (so our fellows said) ready to swarm theDoctor out of house and home.
-- Occasionally I went to London; to lose myself in the swarm of lifethere, or to consult with Traddles on some business point.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was in the latter part of June, and the day after the interview with Troy in the hayfield, that Bathsheba was standing in her garden, watching a swarm in the air and guessing their probable settling place.
-- The bustling swarm had swept the sky in a scattered and uniform haze, which now thickened to a nebulous centre: this glided on to a bough and grew still denser, till it formed a solid black spot upon the light.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Children!Why we swarm with 'em.
-- The swarm of begging-letter writers, who would seem to be always watching eagerly for any hook, however small, to hang a letter upon, wrote to say that having seen the advertisement, they were induced to apply with confidence for various sums, ranging from ten shillings to fifty pounds: not because they knew anything about the young person, but because they felt that to part with those donations would greatly relieve the advertiser's mind.
-- It was necessarily but a sprinkling of any class of Barnacles that attended the marriage, for there were not two score in all, and what is that subtracted from Legion!But the sprinkling was a swarm in the Twickenham cottage, and filled it.
-- Pardon me, but I think you really have no idea how the human bees will swarm to the beating of any old tin kettle; in that fact lies the complete manual of governing them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were handsome, bustling, successful affairs, with a host of clerks and a swarm of patrons.
-- It was like a small swarm of bees.
-- They are the men who are in the lodginghouse sitting-rooms during bleak and bitter weather and who swarm about the cheaper shelters which only open at six in a number of the lower East Side streets.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the people begun to holler at him and make fun of him, and that made him mad, and he begun to rip and tear; so that stirred up the people, and a lot of men begun to pile down off of the benches and swarm towards the ring, saying, 'Knock him down!throw him out!'
-- And they'll just fairly swarm over you, and have a noble good time.'
-- But we got them laid in, and all the other things; and you never see a cabin as blithesome as Jim's was when they'd all swarm out for music and go for him.
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