crutch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 拐杖，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Havisham was taking exercise in the room with the long spread table, leaning on her crutch stick.
-- "This is a gay figure, Pip," said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.
-- She looked at Sarah Pocket with triumph in her weird eyes, and so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bride-cake that was hidden in cobwebs.
-- Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
-- But, when we sat by her flickering fire at night, she was most weird; for then, keeping Estella's hand drawn through her arm and clutched in her own hand, she extorted from her, by dint of referring back to what Estella had told her in her regular letters, the names and conditions of the men whom she had fascinated; and as Miss Havisham dwelt upon this roll, with the intensity of a mind mortally hurt and diseased, she sat with her other hand on her crutch stick, and her chin on that, and her wan bright eyes glaring at me, a very spectre.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away, but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long John took up his crutch and departed.
-- "Aye, aye, mates," said Long John, who was standing by, with his crutch under his arm, and at once broke out in the air and words I knew so well:"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest "And then the whole crew bore chorus: "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
-- Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible.
-- It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.
-- If an order were given, John would be on his crutch in an instant, with the cheeriest "Aye, aye, sir!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, es-corted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high proces-sion.
-- 'I see a vacant seat,' replied the Ghost, 'in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frank, sitting just behind the little girls, heard what they were saying, and pushed his crutch away from him with an impatient gesture as he watched the active lads going through all sorts of comical gymnastics.
-- Mrs. March and Meg sat among the ap-ple piles like a pair of Pomonas, sorting the contributions that kept pouring in, while Amy with a beautiful mother-ly expression in her face sketched the various groups, and watched over one pale lad, who sat adoring her with his lit-tle crutch beside him.
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