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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My queen, let me get into the fire after it say the word-I'll put my whole grey head into the fire for it!I have a poor lame wife and thirteen children.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the sun's glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them.
-- He was the ugliest man of all those that came before Troy bandy-legged, lame of one foot, with his two shoulders rounded and hunched over his chest.
-- I will lame their horses for them; I will hurl them from their chariot, and will break it in pieces.
-- This is what he says, and this is he means to do, he will lame your horses for you, he will hurl you from your chariot, and will break it in pieces.
-- Meanwhile Thetis came to the house of Vulcan, imperishable, star-bespangled, fairest of the abodes in heaven, a house of bronze wrought by the lame god's own hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My back had now become very stiff and sore, my tonsils were painful from the cabman's fingers, and the skin of my neck had been scratched by his nails; my feet hurt exceedingly and I was lame from a little cut on one foot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the way, M'ling had suddenly rushed into a thicket and driven out an under-sized Ocelot-man, also blood-stained, and lame through a wound in the foot.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,' said Mother Wolf quietly.
-- 'He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
-- And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Wain-gunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!Keep him?
-- Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have al-lowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth took an observation of the new boys and decided that the lame one was not 'dreadful', but gentle and feeble, and she would be kind to him on that account.
-- Then Polly had to be fed, the lap dog combed, and a dozen trips upstairs and down to get things or deliver orders, for the old lady was very lame and seldom left her big chair.
-- There were slow boys and bash-ful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people pre-dicted that his admission would ruin the school.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment, there walked into the room: supporting himself by a thick stick: a stout old gentleman, rather lame in one leg, who was dressed in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, nankeen breeches and gaiters, and a broad-brimmed white hat, with the sides turned up with green.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was several hours after Friday came back to me be-fore they came back to their boat; and we could hear the foremost of them, long before they came quite up, calling to those behind to come along; and could also hear them answer, and complain how lame and tired they were, and not able to come any faster: which was very welcome news to us.
-- He did so, and had but just time to get away, when the wolves came up to it, and some got upon it, when I, snapping an unchanged pistol close to the powder, set it on fire; those that were upon the timber were scorched with it, and six or seven of them fell; or rather jumped in among us with the force and fright of the fire; we despatched these in an instant, and the rest were so frightened with the light, which the night - for it was now very near dark - made more terrible that they drew back a little; upon which I ordered our last pistols to be fired off in one volley, and after that we gave a shout; upon this the wolves turned tail, and we sallied immediately upon near twenty lame ones that we found struggling on the ground, and fell to cutting them with our swords, which answered our expectation, for the crying and howling they made was better understood by their fellows; so that they all fled and left us.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- come, lame and halt and blind!(AMEN!)
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had gone barely half a mile when he met a lame Fox and a blind Cat, walking together like two good friends.
-- The lame Fox leaned on the Cat, and the blind Cat let the Fox lead him along.
-- The Donkey becomes lame and is sold to a man who wants to use his skin for a drumhead.
-- When he got up, he was lame and could hardly limp as far as the stable.
-- The next morning the veterinary--that is, the animal doctor--declared that he would be lame for the rest of his life.
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