arm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 手臂， 扶手， 臂状物v. 武装； 配备n. 武器，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He opened his hand, stared at the coin, and with a sweep of his arm flung it into the water; then he turned and went home.
-- Meanwhile Razumihin sat down on the sofa beside him, as clumsily as a bear put his left arm round Raskolnikov's head, although he was able to sit up, and with his right hand gave him a spoonful of soup, blowing on it that it might not burn him.
-- As before, he put his left arm round the sick man's head, raised him up and gave him tea in spoon-fuls, again blowing each spoonful steadily and earnestly, as though this process was the principal and most effec-tive means towards his friend's recovery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Mr. Murdstone's hand,and he kept in on my arm as he said'What's this?
-- I knew aswell, when I saw my mother's head lean down upon his shoulder,and her arm touch his neck- I knew as well that he could mouldher pliant nature into any form he chose, as I know, now, that hedid it.
-- When she paid the coachmanshe took her money out of a hard steel purse, and she kept thepurse in a very jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavychain, and shut up like a bite.
-- On her stupid, cross, old Peggotty's arm again.
-- said Mr. Barkis, always leaning forward,in his slouching way, on the footboard of the cart with an arm oneach knee.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife.
-- Emma had hardly expected them: for Mr. Weston, who had called in for half a minute, in order to hear that his son was very handsome, knew nothing of their plans; and it was an agreeable surprize to her, therefore, to perceive them walking up to the house together, arm in arm.
-- She was quite determined not to utter a word that should hurt Jane Fairfax's feelings; and they followed the other ladies out of the room, arm in arm, with an appearance of good-will highly becoming to the beauty and grace of each.
-- In Frank's last letter she complained, he said, of being too weak to get into her con-servatory without having both his arm and his uncle's!This, you know, speaks a great degree of weakness but now she is so impatient to be in town, that she means to sleep only two nights on the road. So Frank writes word.
-- For a moment or two nothing was said, and she was un-suspicious of having excited any particular interest, till she found her arm drawn within his, and pressed against his heart, and heard him thus saying, in a tone of great sensi-bility, speaking low, 'Time, my dearest Emma, time will heal the wound. Your own excellent sense your exertions for your father's sake I know you will not allow yourself .'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The left arm was extended as a balance, enough of it being shown bare to make Oak wish that the event had happened in the summer, when the whole would have been revealed.
-- He went forward and stretched out his arm again.
-- During conversations each subjected his sapling to great varieties of usage bending it round his back, forming an arch of it between his two hands, overweighting it on the ground till it reached nearly a semicircle; or perhaps it was hastily tucked under the arm whilst the sample-bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events perfectly well known to half-a-dozen acute town-bred fowls which had as usual crept into the building unobserved, and waited the fulfilment of their anticipations with a high-stretched neck and oblique eye.
-- Bathsheba answered nothing, and the horse upon her arm seemed so impressed that instead of cropping the herbage she looked up.
-- "Upon my life," said Troy, through the veil, "holding up this hive makes one's arm ache worse than a week of sword-exercise."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her "mamma," and put his arm round her waist, a piece of flattery perhaps not appreciated to the full!The worthy woman might imagine this to be an easy feat; but, as a matter of fact, no arm but Vautrin's was long enough to encircle her.
-- he cried at the sight of his hostess, and he put his arm gaily round her waist.
-- Poiret gave his arm to Mlle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
-- My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled 113by all the feelings which can arm one being against the ex-istence of another.
-- If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as you do, and arm them-selves for my destruction.
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