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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was beginning to accustom myself to the sight of this interesting fishing, when suddenly, as the Indian was on the ground, I saw him make a gesture of terror, rise, and make a spring to return to the surface of the sea.
-- You cannot be ignorant that your king, Louis XIV, thinking that the gesture of a potentate was sufficient to bring the Pyrenees under his yoke, had imposed the Duke of Anjou, his grandson, on the Spaniards.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he made a little gesture of dismissal, with his eyebrows.
-- They are really very thorough rejecters of the world perhaps they live only in the gesture of rejection and negation but negatively something, at any rate."
-- It was all done in dumb show, the women danced their emotion in gesture and motion.
-- She knew, as well as he knew, that words themselves do not convey meaning, that they are but a gesture we make, a dumb show like any other.
-- And she seemed to feel his gesture through her blood, and she drew back, even though her desire sent her forward.
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