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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I followed Captain Nemo; and as soon as I had passed through the door, I found myself in a kind of passage lighted by electricity, similar to the waist of a ship.
-- In crossing the waist I did not meet Captain Nemo: I supposed him to be in the pilot's cage.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shouldn't like to say whose waist his arm did not go round.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
-- About his waist he wore an old brass-buckled leather belt, which was the one thing solid in his whole accoutrement.
-- He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran and with one good heave, tumbled him overboard.
-- Silver had two guns slung about him one before and one behind besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat.
-- I had a line about my waist and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth.
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