wrist是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 腕， 腕关节，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：
-- Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow-string, but Hector struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder; he hit him just where the collar-bone divides the neck from the chest, a very deadly place, and broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand as he fell forward on his knees.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another moment Jaffers, cutting short some statement concerning a warrant, had gripped him by the handless wrist and caught his invisible throat.
-- He felt the hand that had closed round his wrist with his disengaged fingers, and his fingers went timorously up the arm, patted a muscular chest, and explored a bearded face.
-- Respectfully but it is so " "If you don't shut up I shall twist your wrist again," said the Invisible Man.
-- Then the policeman, who had been trying to pass the barman, rushed in, followed by one of the cabmen, gripped the wrist of the invisible hand that collared Marvel, was hit in the face and went reeling back.
-- "I suppose that wrist is all right," said Kemp.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One hand was almost severed at the wrist and his silvery hair was dabbled in blood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard Swiveller thrust his lank arm out of bed, and, gripping her by the wrist and drawing her close to him, bade her out with it, and freely too, or he would not answer for the consequences; being wholly unable to endure the state of excitement and expectation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took a breathing space, set my teeth, and again grappled fiercely, wrist and knee, with the machine.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boy, take his left hand by the wrist and bring it near to my right."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!'
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