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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sympathetic hand did not claim her resentment.
-- Mr. Bounderby still walking up and down when Mrs. Pegler had done, Mr. Gradgrind addressed that maligned old lady:'I am surprised, madam,' he observed with severity, 'that in your old age you have the face to claim Mr. Bounderby for your son, after your unnatural and inhuman treatment of him.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If any impostor had arisen to claim it, he would have shed tears in resentment of the attempt to deprive him of his rights.
-- So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title.
-- 'It would be settled on herself, and they would have no more legal claim on it than you,' would be the professional answer.
-- 'The Circumlocution Department, sir,' Mr Barnacle replied, 'may have possibly recommended possibly I cannot say that some public claim against the insolvent estate of a firm or copartnership to which this person may have belonged, should be enforced.
-- 'I want to know,' said Arthur Clennam, who had made up his mind to persistence in one short form of words, 'the precise nature of the claim of the Crown against a prisoner for debt, named Dorrit.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a fortune as the Count antonio.
-- If 'genius is eternal patience', as Michelangelo affirms, Amy had some claim to the divine attribute, for she perse-vered in spite of all obstacles, failures, and discouragements, firmly believing that in time she should do something wor-thy to be called 'high art'.
-- She showed him her ball book with de-mure satisfaction when he strolled instead of rushed up to claim her for the next, a glorious polka redowa.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Look ye, now,' cried the Lakeman, flinging out his arm towards him, 'there are a few of us here (and I am one of them) who have shipped for the cruise, d'ye see; now as you well know, sir, we can claim our discharge as soon as the anchor is down; so we don't want a row; it's not our interest; we want to be peaceable; we are ready to work, but we won't be flogged.'
-- I claim him for one of our clan.
-- If I claim the demi-god then, why not the prophet?
-- But while they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce their claim to more solid tribute.
-- True, among the more upright and honorable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases, where it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
-- 'Rose, my own dear Rose!For years--for years--I have loved you; hoping to win my way to fame, and then come proudly home and tell you it had been pursued only for you to share; thinking, in my daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the many silent tokens I had given of a boy's attachment, and claim your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had been sealed between us!That time has not arrived; but here, with not fame won, and no young vision realised, I offer you the heart so long your own, and stake my all upon the words with which you greet the offer.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man of honour could not have doubted the intention, but Mr. Darcy chose to doubt it or to treat it as a merely conditional recom-mendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence in short anything or noth-ing.
-- When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be a simpleton, and al-low her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.
-- I knew that Mr. Wickham ought not to be a clergyman; the business was therefore soon set-tled he resigned all claim to assistance in the church, were it possible that he could ever be in a situation to receive it, and accepted in return three thousand pounds.
-- 'They will join me early to-morrow,' he continued, 'and among them are some who will claim an acquaintance with you Mr.
-- 'Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,' replied Eliza-beth, 'have any possible claim on me, in the present instance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man told me he had not been in the Brazils for about nine years; but that he could assure me that when he came away my partner was living, but the trustees whom I had joined with him to take cogni-sance of my part were both dead: that, however, he believed I would have a very good account of the improvement of the plantation; for that, upon the general belief of my be-ing cast away and drowned, my trustees had given in the account of the produce of my part of the plantation to the procurator-fiscal, who had appropriated it, in case I never came to claim it, one-third to the king, and two-thirds to the monastery of St. Augustine, to be expended for the ben-efit of the poor, and for the conversion of the Indians to the Catholic faith: but that, if I appeared, or any one for me, to claim the inheritance, it would be restored; only that the improvement, or annual production, being distributed to charitable uses, could not be restored: but he assured me that the steward of the king's revenue from lands, and the providore, or steward of the monastery, had taken great care all along that the incumbent, that is to say my partner, gave every year a faithful account of the produce, of which they had duly received my moiety.
-- When this was past, the old man asked me if he should put me into a method to make my claim to my plantation.
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