lame是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 跛的, 瘸的; 不能说服人的; vt. 使跛，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：
-- He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remem-ber upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size.
-- 'Carton,' said his friend, squaring himself at him with a bullying air, as if the fire-grate had been the furnace in which sustained endeavour was forged, and the one delicate thing to be done for the old Sydney Carton of old Shrews-bury School was to shoulder him into it, 'your way is, and always was, a lame way.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has a room at the Kapernaumovs' the tailors, she lodges with them; Kapernaumov is a lame man with a cleft palate and all of his numerous family have cleft palates too.
-- If she had been lame or hunchback, I believe I should have liked her better still,' he smiled dreamily.
-- Several persons came in too from the Kapernaumovs' room; the landlord, a lame one-eyed man of strange appearance with whis-kers and hair that stood up like a brush, his wife, a woman with an everlastingly scared expression, and several open-mouthed children with wonder-struck faces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His bedstead, covered with a tumbledand ragged piece of patchwork, was in the den he had come from,where another little window showed a prospect of more stinging-nettles, and a lame donkey.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now the middle of June, and the weather fine; and Mrs. Elton was growing impatient to name the day, and set-tle with Mr. Weston as to pigeon-pies and cold lamb, when a lame carriage-horse threw every thing into sad uncertainty.
-- In the meanwhile the lame horse recovered so fast, that the party to Box Hill was again under happy consideration; and at last Donwell was settled for one day, and Box Hill for the next, the weather appearing exactly right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a very lame pretence on both sides; the lamer, because we both went into the coffee-room, where he had just finished his breakfast, and where I ordered mine.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had gone forth, he went into the stable, and led the horse out; it was lame of one foot, and limped hobblety jib, hobble-ty jib; nevertheless he mounted it, and rode away to the dark forest.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If this be true (and they affirm it with great confidence) it is much to be wished, that their observations were made public, whereby the theory of comets, which at present is very lame and de-fective, might be brought to the same perfection with other arts of astronomy.
-- These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a cham-ber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bot-tomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
-- The impression was, A KING LIFTING UP A LAME BEGGAR FROM THE EARTH.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery, in a by-comer, and made him Member of Parliament for Coketown: one of the respected members for ounce weights and measures, one of the representatives of the multiplication table, one of the deaf honourable gentlemen, dumb honourable gentlemen, blind honourable gentlemen, lame honourable gentlemen, dead honourable gentlemen, to every other consideration.
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：
-- With his uncanny lame instinct for pub-licity, he had become in four or five years one of the best known of the young 'intellectuals'.
-- The new Achilles in hint had a heel, and in this heel the woman, the woman like Connie, his wife, could lame him fatally.
-- Must he have the horrible broil with her lame husband?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were too deaf to hear it, one other ancient member was too lame to get near it, and the final ancient member was too pig-headed to look at it.
-- He was one of those many wayfarers on the road of life, who seem to be afflicted with supernatural corns, rendering it impossible for them to keep up even with their lame competitors.
-- A lame foreigner with a stick.'
-- The lame foreigner with the stick wants a top room down the Yard.
-- The lame foreigner with the stick represented that you sent him; but he could represent (as far as that goes) that the Great Mogul sent him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
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