claim是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 要求; 有所根据而索取的款项; 要求权; 要求之物; v. 要求承认; 宣称; 值得，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit,' who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If a picture of the chateau as it was to be a very few years hence, and of fifty like it as they too were to be a very few years hence, could have been shown to him that night, he might have been at a loss to claim his own from the ghastly, fire-charred, plunder-wrecked rains.
-- 'I had no intention, in the words I used, to claim it yet.
-- rejoined Stryver, laughing boastfully, 'though I don't prefer any claim to being the soul of Romance (for I hope I know better), still I am a tenderer sort of fellow than YOU.'
-- 'What I suppose, Mr. Stryver, I claim to characterise for myself And understand me, sir,' said Mr. Lorry, quickly flushing again, 'I will not not even at Tellson's have it characterised for me by any gentleman breathing.'
-- Let me kiss my dear girl with an old-fashioned bach-elor blessing, before Somebody comes to claim his own.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had on the Shoes; for as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them; and besides it was so very dirty out-of-doors, they were just the thing for him, he thought.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And while out shooting, when he seemed to be thinking of nothing at all, suddenly the old man and his family kept coming back to his mind, and the impression of them seemed to claim not merely his attention, but the solution of some question connected with them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, I have done nothing except be unpleasant to people that claim too much, but I have dreams of real discoveries some day.
-- "Yes, they claim he's a brainy man--very well-informed--and I hear his wife is a nice brainy little woman."
-- Sometimes the papers, and I can only say they flatter me when they compare me with Billy Sunday, the greatest of all evangelists and Christian preachers--sometimes they claim that I'm too sensational.
-- "Now of course," said Gottlieb, "you could claim to be co- discoverer and spend the rest of your life fighting to get recognized.
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 cried suddenly, in a fren-zy 'accept one's lot humbly as it is, once for all and stifle everything in oneself, giving up all claim to activity, life and love!'
-- Though I lay claim to the happiness of your hand, I cannot accept duties incompatible with 芒聙娄' 'Ah, don't be so ready to take offence, Pyotr Petrovitch,' Dounia interrupted with feeling, 'and be the sensible and generous man I have always considered, and wish to con-sider, you to be.
-- In fact, if there could be any hope, it would be very ephemeral, because there would be no claim for assistance in that case, far from it芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might have a misgiving that I am 'meandering' in stopping to saythis, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions,in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appearfrom anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child ofclose observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of mychildhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.
-- Still, nobody appeared, to claim the dustyyoungster from Blunderstone, Suffolk.
-- Iheard that Mr. Creakle had not preferred his claim to being aTartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe ofmasters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life,charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away,unmercifully.
-- Mr. Peggotty was no less pleasedthan his nephew, though his modesty forbade him to claim apersonal compliment so vociferously.
-- I don't profess to beprofound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as to my poor word 'suc-cess,' which you quarrel with, I do not know that I am so entirely without any claim to it.
-- The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of recon-ciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
-- She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
-- There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman's daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrad-ing you.'
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