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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Helena put her arm round her waist to support her, but the captain, John Mangles, who stood close beside them spoke no encouraging word, for his practiced eye saw plainly that the captain was not there.
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：
-- Holmes sank to his waist as he stepped from the path to seize it, and had we not been there to drag him out he could never have set his foot upon firm land again.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chiefs disposed their men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out as easily as goatherds draft their flocks when they have got mixed while feeding; and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like that of Neptune.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned, standing waist deep, and stared at them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fumbled in his waist cloth for flint and steel, and stooped down to singe Shere Khan's whiskers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is worn round the waist and hangs to the knees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This poetic figure, which Kit took to be in a special allusion to his own checked waistcoat, quite overcame him; Mr Brass's voice and manner added not a little to its effect, for he discoursed with all the mild austerity of a hermit, and wanted but a cord round the waist of his rusty surtout, and a skull on the chimney-piece, to be completely set up in that line of business.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently at the cell-door appeared a middle-sized, full-breasted young woman, dressed in a long, gray coat over a white waist and skirt.
-- One of these, who was serving a sentence for theft, was a flabby, large, heavy, red-haired woman with white-yellow freckles over her face, and a stout neck which was exposed by the open waist collar.
-- Missy in her hat and some dark, striped dress which clasped her waist without a wrinkle, was very pretty.
-- But the story of the driver with the long waist was unpleasant to him.
-- Maslova was again dressed in a white skirt, waist and 'kerchief.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a slight creature perhaps four feet high clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her brother glanced at her face with greater interest than usual, and, encircling her waist with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wishing to escape all danger from this terrible weapon I made a desperate struggle, and the belt, which surrounded my waist and which had been hitched on a stone, gave way.
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：
-- The crumple of her waist at the back, as she bent back to look, was a little weary; and it used to be so gay-looking.
-- he said, as his finger ca-ressed the delicate, warm, secret skin of her waist and hips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Wade, who had watched her under this final appeal with that strange attentive smile, and that repressing hand upon her own bosom with which she had watched her in her struggle at Marseilles, then put her arm about her waist as if she took possession of her for evermore.
-- In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, using her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister's waist with the other, as if she were crushing Mrs Merdle.
-- Sometimes, when she was in the outer circle of assemblies at their own residence, at Mrs Merdle's, or elsewhere she would find herself stealthily supported round the waist by Mr Sparkler's arm.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there with the strained craft steeply leaning over to it, by reason of the enormous downward drag from the lower mast-head, and every yard-arm on that side projecting like a crane over the waves; there, that blood-dripping head hung to the Pequod's waist like the giant Holofernes's from the girdle of Judith.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he remarked, feeling the set of it at the waist and eyeing it from a few paces with real pleasure.
-- Her skirt was of a rich blue material, and her shirt waist matched it, with a thin- stripe of blue upon a snow-white ground--stripes that were as fine as hairs.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A great sash of gold and silver was fastened around his waist and his tail was decorated with ribbons of many brilliant colors.
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