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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
-- I have no further claim upon you.
-- There was ever present, too, the idea that he could claim a home and its comforts did he but chose to return to England and Weatherbury Farm.
-- It was some minutes before he could counteract his sudden wish to go in, and claim her.
-- Assuredly before he could claim her these few past months of his existence must be entirely blotted out.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, once more, there are other mercenary natures who never do a kindness to a friend or a relation simply because these have a claim upon them, while a service done to a stranger brings its reward to self-love.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.
-- The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
-- I am now going to claim the protection of some friends, whom I sincerely love, and of whose favour I have some hopes.'
-- But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.
-- I felt as if I were placed under a ban as if I had no right to claim their sympathies as if never more might I enjoy compan-ionship with them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they showed no aptitude for any of thesetrades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing atall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am not aware," observed the grave lady whose voice I had heard but once, "that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person, my dear."
-- Mr. Trabb then bent over number four, and in a sort of deferential confidence recommended it to me as a light article for summer wear, an article much in vogue among the nobility and gentry, an article that it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished fellow-townsman's (if he might claim me for a fellow-townsman) having worn.
-- He wore his hat on the back of his head, and looked straight before him: walking in a self-contained way as if there were nothing in the streets to claim his attention.
-- Which I meantersay, if the ghost of a man's own father cannot be allowed to claim his attention, what can, Sir?
-- I had the happiness to know you in former times, and the Drama has ever had a claim which has ever been acknowledged, on the noble and the affluent."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whoever can there bring suf-ficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his 66 Gulliver's Travelscountry for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or le-gal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.
-- For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire 316 Gulliver's Travelsto know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseas-es she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
-- I should here observe to the reader, that a decree of the general assembly in this country is expressed by the word hnhloayn, which signifies an exhortation, as near as I can render it; for they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up 358 Gulliver's Travelshis claim to be a rational creature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I have acquired an interest in hearing of your instructive experiences, and can scarcely hear enough of them, I claim no merit for that, since I believe it is a general sentiment.'
-- 'I wish I could have made a better acknowledgment, sir, of your kindness to a poor forlorn girl who had no claim upon you, and of your protection of her.'
-- I claim to deserve it.
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