jaw是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 颌， 颚，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear indoors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood before her, pale, his lower jaw quivering, and besought her to be calm, not knowing how or why.
-- Alexey Vronsky's frowning face turned white, and his prominent lower jaw quivered, which happened rarely with him.
-- With a face hideous with passion, his lower jaw trembling, and his cheeks white, Vronsky kicked her with his heel in the stomach and again fell to tugging at the rein.
-- All at once Stepan Arkadyevitch became aware that his lower jaw was uncontrollably forming a yawn.
-- And his jaw twitched impatiently from the incessant gnawing toothache, that prevented him from even speaking with a natural expression.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his faceturned towards me, as he finished, but without looking at me, hetook his crooked thumb off the spot where he had planted it, andslowly and thoughtfully scraped his lank jaw with it, as if he wereshaving himself.
-- Alwaysproceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw werelocked and the face frozen up in pain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From her Frenchmother, whose parents had fled Haiti in the Revolution of 1791, had come her slanting dark eyes, shadowed by inkylashes, and her black hair; and from her father, a soldier of Napoleon, she had her long straight nose and her square-cut jaw that was softened by the gentle curving of her cheeks.
-- And then her jaw dropped in horror as she realized what she had said.
-- Dr. Meade bit his lip and his jaw hardened as his face went cool again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, taking his black pipe from his mouth, and dropping his jaw as he stared at me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His jaw is of awful size and strength, and according to the best-informed naturalists, it does not contain less than a hundred and eighty-two teeth.
-- Prognathism, in anthropological language, means that particular projection of the jaw which modifies the facial angle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And gradually her fingertips knew his cheeks and lips, his jaw and chin and throat perfectly.
-- ' He stretched again, curi-ously, his muscles quivering, and his jaw oddly set.
-- And she saw his jaw set.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale.
-- Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
-- Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.
-- All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was separately touched by some specific recollection.
-- And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
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