waist是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 腰， 腰部，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：
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- It 30 Sons and Loverswore a tunic of the purest white, and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful.
-- As to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn't have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and never come straight again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Pross, on the instinct of the moment, seized her round the waist in both her arms, and held her tight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He flushed slightly, and hurriedly asked her to waltz, but he had only just put his arm round her waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped.
-- For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again.... That peasant with the long waist seemed to be gnawing something on the wall, the old lady began stretching her legs the whole length of the carriage, and filling it with a black cloud; then there was a fearful shrieking and banging, as though someone were being torn to pieces; then there was a blinding dazzle of red fire before her eyes and a wall seemed to rise up and hide everything.
-- He was dressed in a long-skirted blue coat, with buttons below the waist at the back, and wore high boots wrinkled over the ankles and straight over the calf, with big galoshes drawn over them.
-- The silky grass with its ripe seeds came almost to his waist in the dampest spots.
-- Before there was you--and THIS too," he added with a glance towards her waist that she understood-- "I put all my energies into work; now I can't, and I'm ashamed; I do it just as though it were a task set me, I'm pretending...." "Well, but would you like to change this minute with Sergey Ivanovitch?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The elephant grunted out his satisfaction, and, clasping Passepartout around the waist with his trunk, lifted him as high as his head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over oneanother, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to expresshis concurrence in this estimation of me.
-- Throat she had none; waist she had none;legs she had none, worth mentioning; for though she was morethan full-sized down to where her waist would have been, if shehad had any, and though she ter- minated, as human beingsgenerally do, in a pair of feet, she was so short that she stood at acommon-sized chair as at a table, resting a bag she carried on theseat.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Oak appeared in the entry with a steaming face, hay-bands wound about his ankles to keep out the snow, a leather strap round his waist outside the smock-frock, and looking altogether an epitome of the world's health and vigour.
-- Then she reappeared in her new riding-habit of myrtle green, which fitted her to the waist as a rind fits its fruit; and young Bob Coggan led on her mare, Boldwood fetching his own horse from the tree under which it had been tied.
-- Until she had met Troy, Bathsheba had been proud of her position as a woman; it had been a glory to her to know that her lips had been touched by no man's on earth that her waist had never been encircled by a lover's arm.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They noticed for the first time how her green eyes danced, how deep her dimples were when she laughed, howtiny her hands and feet and what a small waist she had.
-- These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starredyoung magnolia trees.
-- The thought of her waist brought her back to practical matters.
-- Mammy pulled and jerkedvigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into hereyes.
-- She had a whiter bosom and a smaller waist and a tinier footthan any girl present, but for all they mattered she might just as well be lying beside Charles with "Beloved Wife of"carved over her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."
-- The cut of her dress from the waist upward, both before and behind, made her figure very like a boy's kite; and I might have pronounced her gown a little too decidedly orange, and her gloves a little too intensely green.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Having thus, in obedience to your majesty's commands, diligently searched all his pockets, we observed a girdle about his waist made of the hide of some prodigious animal, from which, on the left side, hung a sword of the length of five men; and on the right, a bag or pouch divided into two cells, each cell capable of holding three of your majesty's 34 Gulliver's Travelssubjects.
-- I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length of my coat: but my waist and arms I measured myself.
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