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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the top of the table, seated in an arm -chair rather higher than the rest, was a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.
-- said Oliver, as the boy ran to the gate, and thrust his thin arm between the rails to greet him.
-- Oliver, delighted to be of use, brought down the books under his arm in a great bustle; and waited, cap in hand, to hear what message he was to take.
-- 'Clasp your arm tighter,' said Sikes, as he drew him through the window.
-- Mr. Bumble made no reply; but in a slow and dignified manner, put his arm round the matron's waist.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself.
-- It originated in Mrs. Gardiner, who, fatigued by the exercise of the morning, found Elizabeth's arm inadequate to her support, and consequently preferred her husband's.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He, thinking no harm, agreed, and being in the head of the boat, set the sails; and, as I had the helm, I ran the boat out near a league farther, and then brought her to, as if I would fish; when, giving the boy the helm, I stepped forward to where the Moor was, and making as if I stooped for something behind him, I took him by surprise with my arm under his waist, and tossed him clear overboard into the sea.
-- How-ever, at last, as I said, I made one to answer, and covered it with skins, the hair upwards, so that it cast off the rain like a pent-house, and kept off the sun so effectually, that I could walk out in the hottest of the weather with greater advan-tage than I could before in the coolest, and when I had no need of it could close it, and carry it under my arm Thus I lived mighty comfortably, my mind being entire-ly composed by resigning myself to the will of God, and throwing myself wholly upon the disposal of His provi-dence.
-- So that I had now a double wall; and my outer wall was thickened with pieces of timber, old cables, and everything I could think of, to make it strong; having in it seven little holes, about as big as I might put my arm out at.
-- All this while I had no thought of what the matter really was, but stood trembling with the horror of the sight, ex-pecting every moment when the three prisoners should be killed; nay, once I saw one of the villains lift up his arm with a great cutlass, as the seamen call it, or sword, to strike one of the poor men; and I expected to see him fall every mo-ment; at which all the blood in my body seemed to run chill in my veins.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold insolence of Mrs. Ferrars's general behaviour to her sister, seemed, to her, to foretell such difficulties and distresses to Elinor, as her own wounded heart taught her to think of with horror; and urged by a strong impulse of affectionate sensibility, she moved after a moment, to her sister's chair, and putting one arm round her neck, and one cheek close to hers, said in a low, but eager, voice,"Dear, dear Elinor, don't mind them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly a hand pulled her arm and turned her about.
-- Carrie left him, feeling as though a great arm had slipped out before her to draw off trouble.
-- He sensed something, and slipped his arm over her shoulder, patting her arm.
-- He pressed her arm warmly.
-- He had Carrie's arm in his, and held it closely as he explained.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they tucked the old man into a beauti- ful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stan-chion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up.
-- Once when I turned short and dodged under his arm he made a grab and got me by the jacket between my shoulders, and I thought I was gone; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself.
-- She showed me a bar of lead twisted up into a knot, and said she was a good shot with it generly, but she'd wrenched her arm a day or two ago, and didn't know whether she could throw true now.
-- it hurt her arm so.
-- Throw stiff-armed from the shoul-der, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee, little voice say in a beseeching tone: "Please be careful!Do not hit me so hard!"
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