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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is quite a coincidence,' thought he, and when the subject of price was mentioned, he made a gesture with his hand, as if to waive away a ques-tion of so little importance.
-- The gesture took Evgenie Pavlovitch by surprise, but with the utmost gravity he touched the hand that was offered him in token of forgiveness.
-- Ivan Fedorovitch turned from the boxer with a gesture of despair.
-- But the prince's timid gesture had impressed even Hippolyte.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took off his hat, and with a violent gesture tore at his whiskers and bandages.
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：
-- The instant the father seconded this intimation by an ex-pressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
-- Heyward could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout, through the increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his footsteps, swiftly, toward the place where he had left the remainder of the party.
-- The savage spoke carelessly to his comrades, who were busied, after their awkward manner, in preparing the hors-es for the reception of the sisters, and moved a little to one side, whither by a cautious gesture he induced Heyward to follow.
-- In order to complete his victory, he was in the act of recommencing the enumeration of the rewards, when Magua made an expressive gesture and said: 'Enough; Le Renard is a wise chief, and what he does will be seen.
-- She was often defeated in her purpose, by encountering their watchful eyes, when it became necessary to feign an alarm she did not feel, and occupy the limb by some gesture of feminine apprehen-sion.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stroeve made as though he were about to knock, and then turned to me with a gesture of helplessness.
-- She gave a gesture of lassitude.
-- It's generally a gesture to arouse pity or terror in their lover."
-- Then she caught sight of a cat trying to get at a dish of prawns on the kitchen table, and with a dexterous gesture and a lively volley of abuse flung a book at its scampering tail.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the gesture of an instant, but as she did so and accompanied the action with a menacing look, she met his eye in the glass, catching her in the very act.
-- Young Trent with an impatient gesture pushed the glass towards him, and fell again in the moody attitude from which he had been unwillingly roused.
-- I swear to you,' continued the dwarf dismounting from the chair and sitting down in it, with a careful slowness of gesture very different from the rapidity with which he had sprung up unheard, 'I swear to you that I had no idea old blood ran so fast or kept so warm.
-- Mrs Quilp durst only make a gesture of entreaty.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For a moment I was staggered, though the import of his gesture was plain enough.
-- But at my first gesture towards this they behaved very oddly.
-- Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman it is how she would look.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But such was the power of the commander on board, that not a gesture betrayed the resentment which this man must have felt towards the Canadian.
-- A gesture of his brought us all to a halt; and, however desirous I might be to scale the wall, I was obliged to stop.
-- No; by a gesture he bade us crouch beside him in a deep fracture of the rock, his hand pointed to one part of the liquid mass, which I watched attentively.
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