gesture是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vi. 姿势, 手势, 表示，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With an admonitory gesture to keep them back, he stooped, and looked in through the crevice in the wall.
-- The door-keeper will pass the 81note to Mr. Lorry, and do you make any gesture that will at-tract Mr. Lorry's attention, and show him where you stand.
-- The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that; the uncle made a graceful gesture of protest, which was so clearly a slight form of good breeding that it was not reassuring.
-- The wood-sawyer, who was a little man with a redun-dancy of gesture (he had once been a mender of roads), cast a glance at the prison, pointed at the prison, and putting his ten fingers before his face to represent bars, peeped through 394 A tale of two citiesthem jocosely.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as soon as her brother had reached her, with a gesture that struck Vronsky by its decision and its grace, she flung her left arm around his neck, drew him rapidly to her, and kissed him warmly.
-- "Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget..." "Enough, enough!"
-- But in every gesture of Madame Stahl, in every word, in every heavenly--as Kitty called it--look, and above all in the whole story of her life, which she heard from Varenka, Kitty recognized that something "that was important," of which, till then, she had known nothing.
-- He tossed his head upwards and waved the glass in his hand, greeting Vronsky, and showing him by the gesture that he could not come to him before the quartermaster, who stood craning forward his lips ready to be kissed.
-- Sviazhsky looked with smiling eyes at Levin, and even made a faint gesture of irony to him; but Levin did not think the landowner's words absurd, he understood them better than he did Sviazhsky.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ejaculated the policeman, with a gesture of contempt, and he walked after the dandy and the girl, prob-ably taking Raskolnikov for a madman or something even worse.
-- he said with a gesture of irritation.
-- Had Avdotya Romanovna been dressed like a queen, he felt that 306 Crime and Punishmenthe would not be afraid of her, but perhaps just because she was poorly dressed and that he noticed all the misery of her surroundings, his heart was filled with dread and he began to be afraid of every word he uttered, every gesture he made, which was very trying for a man who already felt diffident.
-- with a gesture of impatience, feeling that the job was going to be a troublesome one.
-- 'I am wicked, I see that,' he thought to himself, feeling ashamed a moment later of his angry gesture to Dounia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then shemade a frown and a gesture to my mother, like one who wasaccustomed to be obeyed, to come and open the door.
-- I would have withdrawn, but theDoctor made a gesture to detain me, and I remained.
-- for theDoctor made a gesture of deprecation, 'I must say before your face,as I always say behind your back, you are the best of creatures; butof course you don't- now do you?- enter into the same pursuits andfancies as Annie.'
-- 'I am told you wish to speak to me, Miss Dartle'; said I, standingnear her, with my hand upon the back of the seat, and decliningher gesture of invitation to sit down.
-- Shemade a hasty gesture with her hand, as if to entreat my patienceand my silence, and turned towards London, whence, as her dressbetokened, she had come expeditiously on foot.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure, a loving woman shows even more ingenuity in inventing doubts of her lover than in varying the monotony of his happiness; and when she is about to be forsaken, she instinctively interprets every gesture as rapidly as Virgil's courser detected the presence of his companion by snuffing the breeze.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the great-est attention to every gesture of my aunt.
-- He paused, looking on me with wonder, and again turn-ing towards the lifeless form of his creator, he seemed to forget my presence, and every feature and gesture seemed instigated by the wildest rage of some uncontrollable pas-sion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that India ever reproachedhim or even indicated by look or gesture that she was aware of his abruptly changed allegiance.
-- Mellylooked at her, startled, and the Captain made a gesture of self-reproach.
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