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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He can now claim pro-tection, if he will only remember the words, from all in the jungle.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- I lay claim to no higher gift than a small insight into the glorious art of petitioning and thanksgiving, as practiced in psalmody.'
-- While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced com-plexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.
-- 'All that you see here, claim alike to be my children.'
-- He was, in truth, proceeding to Montcalm, fearless of every danger, to claim the tardy escort for which he had before conditioned.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
-- He begged me to repeat to her that he loved her still; he would reproach her for nothing, but desired only to help her; he made no claim on her, and on her recovery would not seek to induce her to return to him; she would be perfectly free.
-- Women are the instruments of my pleasure; I have no patience with their claim to be helpmates, partners, companions."
-- I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the first time that he had ever seen birds taken with a line, but the sailor modestly confessed that it was not his first attempt, and that besides he could not claim the merit of invention.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A profligate, sir, who has forfeited every claim not only upon those who have the misfortune to be of his blood, but upon society which knows nothing of him but his misdeeds.
-- This important step secured, with the assistance of a man of law whom he brought with him for the purpose, the dwarf proceeded to establish himself and his coadjutor in the house, as an assertion of his claim against all comers; and then set about making his quarters comfortable, after his own fashion.
-- His own earnest wish, coupled with the assurance he had received from Quilp, filled him with the belief that she would yet arrive to claim the humble shelter he had offered, and from the death of each day's hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.
-- But as you can't, and as the question is not what you will do for me, but what you will do for somebody else who has a better claim upon you, pray sir let me know what you intend doing.'
-- Bright and glimmering as the stars above their heads, lonely and motionless as they, it seemed to claim some kindred with the eternal lamps of Heaven, and to burn in fellowship with them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you ask them, they all claim to be innocent," said the assistant inspector; "although some are there really without any cause whatever."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only one thing I claim I claim Trelawney.
-- I ax your pardon, sir, acknowledging you for to be captaing at this present; but I claim my right, and steps outside for a council."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But was I free to claim this liberty?
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：
-- He did not want to claim social superiority, yet he would not claim intrinsic personal superiority, because he would never base his standard of values on pure being.
-- He could see that, to exist at all, he must be perfectly free of Gudrun, leave her if she wanted to be left, demand nothing of her, have no claim upon her.
-- But then, to have no claim upon her, he must stand by himself, in sheer nothingness.
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