pinch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 捏, 拧, 掐, 夹痛, 紧压; n. 压力, 重压; 微量，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You dog,' snarled Quilp, 'I'll beat you with an iron rod, I'll scratch you with a rusty nail, I'll pinch your eyes, if you talk to me I will.'
-- 'Take a pinch out o' that box; I don't take much myself, for it comes dear, but I find it wakes me up sometimes, and ye're but a boy to me.
-- 'Now hand up the teapot for a little more hot water, and a pinch of fresh tea, and then both of you eat and drink as much as you can, and don't spare anything; that's all I ask of you.'
-- CHAPTER 34In course of time, that is to say, after a couple of hours or so, of diligent application, Miss Brass arrived at the conclusion of her task, and recorded the fact by wiping her pen upon the green gown, and taking a pinch of snuff from a little round tin box which she carried in her pocket.
-- They went on writing for a long time in silence after this in such a dull silence that Mr Swiveller (who required excitement) had several times fallen asleep, and written divers strange words in an unknown character with his eyes shut, when Miss Sally at length broke in upon the monotony of the office by pulling out the little tin box, taking a noisy pinch of snuff, and then expressing her opinion that Mr Richard Swiveller had 'done it.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.
-- Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout loghouse fit to hold two score of people on a pinch and loopholed for musketry on either side.
-- The knife, in fact, had come the nearest in the world to missing me altogether; it held me by a mere pinch of skin, and this the shudder tore away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ha, ha!Never say die, take a pinch of snuff, goodbye, goodbye!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, so; it does pinch some.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Spyers, offering him a pinch of snuff, "none of that gammon!You did it yourself."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went off and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get STARTED right when he's little ain't got no show when the pinch comes there ain't nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat.
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