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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paris now smote him on the jaw under his ear, whereon the life went out of him and he was en-shrouded in the darkness of death.
-- Meriones struck him under the jaw and ear, so that life went out of him and the darkness of death laid hold upon him.
-- For Hector hit him on the jaw under the ear; the end of the spear drove out his teeth and cut his tongue in two pieces, so that he fell from his chariot and let the reins fall to the ground.
-- Presently Epeus came on and gave Euryalus a blow on the jaw as he was looking round; Euryalus could not keep his legs; they gave way under him in a moment and he sprang up with a bound, as a fish leaps into the air near some shore that is all bestrewn with sea-wrack, when Boreas furs the top of the waves, and then falls back into deep water.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My ape-like companion trotted along by my side, with his hands hanging down and his jaw thrust forward.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was on this side that, at the time when the mountain was in a state of eruption, the discharge had worn away a passage, and a large heap of lava had spread to the narrow jaw which formed the northeastern gulf.
-- "Do you think I could have a bullet in my jaw for five or six months without finding it out?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I must see her as soon as possible," with trembling lower jaw Nekhludoff said, feeling that a critical moment was approaching.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, I would; but now "And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.
-- The moan, which told of pain and deadly weakness, and the way in which his jaw hung open went right to my heart.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst bony fish Conseil noticed some about three yards long, armed at the upper jaw with a piercing sword; other bright-coloured creatures, known in the time of Aristotle by the name of the sea-dragon, which are dangerous to capture on account of the spikes on their back.
-- Better armed than the whale, whose upper jaw is furnished only with whalebone, it is supplied with twenty-five large tusks, about eight inches long, cylindrical and conical at the top, each weighing two pounds.
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：
-- Her face was soft and pale and thin, almost phosphorescent, her jaw was lean.
-- He was shivering violently, and his jaw shook as he spoke.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, catching hold of the bridle, he gave his jaw a sharp wrench, by way of gentle reminder that he was not his own master; and by these means turned him round.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood's jaw fell.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the king begins to work his jaw again, and says how him and his nieces would be glad if a few of the main princi-pal friends of the family would take supper here with them this evening, and help set up with the ashes of the diseased; and says if his poor brother laying yonder could speak he knows who he would name, for they was names that was very dear to him, and mentioned often in his letters; and so he will name the same, to wit, as follows, vizz.
-- Go 'long now, and tell him anything you want to; but mind you don't work your jaw any BETWEEN here and there.'
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