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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The spot is situated a little above the Isthmus of Suez, in the arm which formerly made a deep estuary, when the Red Sea extended to the Salt Lakes.
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:
-- She put her hand on the arm of her care-worn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet.
-- The bride was quite demure on the arm of the bridegroom, who stared up into the sky before him, shutting and opening his eyes unconsciously, as if he were neither here nor there.
-- She drew her arm through her mother's, and they went away.
-- He lifted his arm from the water, in a sign to them.
-- So he strode with his blue silk wrap over his arm and felt defiant.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such an individual seated in his arm chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at th e right time after dinner.
-- I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice cold hand!The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in let me in!'
-- The curate might s et as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
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