jerk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 猛地一拉vi. 急拉，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hooked himself now, as the tremendous jerk he gave the cable proved, and the sailors began to haul in the monster by means of tackle attached to the mainyard.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Marvel, turning, saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a complicated path, hang for a moment, and then fling at his feet with almost invisible rapidity.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 23Mr Richard Swiveller wending homeward from the Wilderness (for such was the appropriate name of Quilp's choice retreat), after a sinuous and corkscrew fashion, with many checks and stumbles; after stopping suddenly and staring about him, then as suddenly running forward for a few paces, and as suddenly halting again and shaking his head; doing everything with a jerk and nothing by premeditation; Mr Richard Swiveller wending his way homeward after this fashion, which is considered by evil-minded men to be symbolical of intoxication, and is not held by such persons to denote that state of deep wisdom and reflection in which the actor knows himself to be, began to think that possibly he had misplaced his confidence and that the dwarf might not be precisely the sort of person to whom to entrust a secret of such delicacy and importance.
-- And with that, he darted in again with one jerk and clapped the little door to, like a figure in a Dutch clock when the hour strikes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the servant entered, the saucer, stopping first on the letter p, then on the letter o, reached the letter s and began to jerk one way and another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes accompanied this speech with a jerk at his little companion's wrist; Oliver, quickening his pace into a kind of trot between a fast walk and a run, kept up with the rapid strides of the house-breaker as well as he could.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm no sucker," and with that he opened it with a jerk and closed it equally vigorously.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he was about to give it to his friend, with a violent jerk it slipped out of his hands and hit against poor Geppetto's thin legs.
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