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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had stopped among a disorder of roses it was part of Mr. Bounderby's humility to keep Nickits's roses on a reduced scale and Tom sat down on a terrace-parapet, plucking buds and picking them to pieces; while his powerful Familiar stood over him, with a foot upon the parapet, and his figure easily resting on the arm supported by that knee.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he clutched me by the arm and keenly examined my countenance.
-- Professor Hardwigg was in haste to leave his prison, or rather as he called it, his hospital; but before he attempted to do so, he caught hold of my hand, led me to the quarterdeck of the schooner, took my arm with his left hand, and pointed inland with his right, over the northern part of the bay, to where rose a high two-peaked mountain--a double cone covered with eternal snow.
-- Now, whatever may have been the intelligence of our horses, I had not the slightest reliance upon them, as a means of crossing a stormy arm of the sea.
-- He never lost sight of me, and on many occasions his arm supplied me with firm and solid support.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, hastily wiping her arm across her face as she saw Connie standing outside.
-- Well he's sixty-five, if he's a day, yet you'd have thought they were a pair of young turtle-doves, to see them, arm in arm, and kissing at the gate: yes, an' she sitting on his knee right in the bay window on Pye Croft Road, for anybody to see.
-- Then she laid her cheek on his bel-ly and pressed her arm round his warm, silent loins.
-- She was nearly at the wide riding when he came up and flung his naked arm round her soft, naked-wet middle.
-- She closed her arm round his neck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.
-- His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding his companion and addressing the opposite wall instead, seemed to intimate that he was rehearsing for the President, whose examination he was shortly to undergo, rather than troubling himself merely to enlighten so small a person as John Baptist Cavalletto.
-- 'It's ugly,' returned the little man, who had risen, and was brightening his knife upon his shoe, as he leaned an arm against the wall.
-- By a swift and sudden action of her foot, she drove her wheeled chair rapidly back to it and pulled it violently still holding her arm up in its shield-like posture, as if he were striking at her, and she warding off the blow.
-- She stretched out the arm with which she had shielded herself, and as she went on, pointed at the object of her anger.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all drew to the fire, Mother in the big chair with Beth at her feet, Meg and Amy perched on either arm of the chair, and Jo leaning on the back, where no one would see any sign of emotion if the letter should happen to be touching.
-- Jo put her arm round her and, leaning cheek to cheek, read also, with the quiet expression so seldom seen on her rest-less face.
-- And Mr. Laurence offered her his arm with old-fashioned courtesy.
-- said the old gentleman, as Laurie came running downstairs and brought up with a start of surprise at the astounding sight of Jo arm in arm with his redoubtable grandfather.
-- How she did it, she never knew, but for the next few min-utes she worked as if possessed, blindly obeying Laurie, who was quite self-possessed, and lying flat, held Amy up by his arm and hockey stick till Jo dragged a rail from the fence, and together they got the child out, more frightened than hurt.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner.
-- The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.
-- Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
-- My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
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