(1) Just where the carriages trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls，with fruit blazing in the sun.

(2) "Now look at that silly cow，” she said, "careering round as if it thought it was in a circus. ”

(3) His heart thumped，and he felt hot all over at the thought of that danger.

(4) She rolled her eyes round the young men with a long sweep of her painted eyelashes, and flashed her yellow teeth at them.

(5)Clare performed the irrelevant act of stirring the fire; the intelligence had not even yet got to the bottom of him.

(6)At last after a fury of plunges he wrenched himself free.

以上这些句子中，有马车的滚动（见例1)，也有牛的狂跑（见例2);有心脏的枰评跳动（见例3),也有眼珠骨碌的转动（见例4);有搅动（见例5),扭动（见例6）。

 

英语中类似以上这些能表现不同形式的“走”，“动” 等有文采的动词很多，这里所举只是沧海一粟，但读者能从中窥见到英语动词文采的一斑。同时要知道，这些佳句无一不是作者匠心独运、反复推敲、逐字斟酌的结杲。