arrest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 逮捕， 扣留vt. 逮捕， 扣留； 阻止； 吸引，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am not sure that as a conscientious detective my first duty is not to arrest the whole household.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To work this sportive vein still further, Mr Brass, by his counsel, moved in arrest of judgment that he had been led to criminate himself, by assurances of safety and promises of pardon, and claimed the leniency which the law extends to such confiding natures as are thus deluded.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
-- If he possessed the power to arrest any wandering eye when exhibiting the glories of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still more likely to attract attention.
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