gnaw是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 啃， 咬断vi. 啮，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Upon my word, that ghastly old maid looks just like one of the long worms that will gnaw a beam through, give them time enough."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melanie smiled at him through sparkling tears while Scarlett felt the fox of wrath and impotent hate gnaw at hervitals.
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：
-- "It's your duty to invite all the rats in the world to gnaw at your bones."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had the courage to hold my tongue, to gnaw at my entrails like the Spartan boy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!What despair in those immovable inscriptions!What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished first; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they borrow a chaw they don't generly cut it off with a knife, but set the plug in between their teeth, and gnaw with their teeth and tug at the plug with their hands till they get it in two; then some-times the one that owns the tobacco looks mournful at it when it's handed back, and says, sarcastic: 'Here, gimme the CHAW, and you take the PLUG.'
-- We ain't a-going to GNAW him out, are we?'
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