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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His arm was too trembling, however, to keep the weapon steady.
-- Already Thalcave had set the example, for whenever a wolf came too near the burning pile, the long arm of the Patagonian dashed through the flames and came out again reddened with blood.
-- But just as the Patagonian caught hold of the horse's mane, Glenarvan seized his arm with a convulsive grip, and said, pointing to the open prairie.
-- A few minutes more, and he would have fallen into the roaring waters had not the Major's strong arm barred his passage.
-- A strong arm pulled him up out of the sand and made him call out:"Who goes there?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His arm was round her, but it seemed to me that she was straining away from him with her face averted.
-- With a cry of surprise I pointed him out to the baronet, but in the instant during which I had turned to grasp his arm the man was gone.
-- He stood upon a chair, and, holding up the light in his left hand, he curved his right arm over the broad hat and round the long ringlets.
-- I said it in London, Watson, and I say it again now, that never yet have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than he who is lying yonder' he swept his long arm towards the huge mottled expanse of green-splotched bog which stretched away until it merged into the russet slopes of the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But seeing that Nasta-sia Philipovna was really about to leave the room this time, he sprang at Varia and seized her by the arm like a mad-man.
-- 'Why do you offer me your arm now?
-- Don't you know how to give your arm to a lady yet?
-- 'Now, go away, I don't wish to have your arm any longer; or perhaps, better, continue to give me your arm, and walk along beside me, but don't speak a word to me.
-- 'At this very moment, as though divining my thoughts, Rogojin raised his head from his arm and began to part his lips as though he were going to laugh but he continued to stare at me as persistently as before.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let us now, therefore, arm the sons of the Achaeans.
-- For the sweat caused by the hand that bore the weight of his shield irritated the hurt: his arm was weary with pain, and he was lifting up the strap to wipe away the blood.
-- Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow-string, but Hector struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder; he hit him just where the collar-bone divides the neck from the chest, a very deadly place, and broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand as he fell forward on his knees.
-- The band for the arm to go through was of silver, on which there was a writhing snake of cyanus with three heads that sprang from a single neck, and went in and out among one another.
-- Un-seen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was my sister's son, Tom, jest cut his arm with a scythe, tumbled on it in the 'ayfield, and, bless me!he was three months tied up sir.
-- He caught a glimpse of a most singular thing, what seemed a handless arm waving towards him, and a face of three huge indeterminate spots on white, very like the face of a pale pansy.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he ran the master raised his arm and a pistol shot rang in the air.
-- All that could be seen of him was a very small black dot moving swiftly on the blue surface of the water, a little black dot which now and then lifted a leg or an arm in the air.
-- Pinocchio offered his arm to Geppetto, who was so weak he could hardly stand, and said to him: "Lean on my arm, dear Father, and let us go.
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