paw是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 爪，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera the Panther and no man's play-thing, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
-- 'That is why,' he said, shifting his paw on the leaves.
-- I am more likely to give help than to ask it' Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it 'still I should like to know.'
-- Baloo's big paw scooped Mowgli off Bagheera's back, and as the boy lay between the big fore-paws he could see the Bear was angry.
-- If Shere Khan had made a false step with his lame paw up in the jungles by the Waingunga, Mowgli would have heard him in those long, still mornings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The intelligent animal went backwards and forwards on the shore, stopped suddenly, and looked at the water, one paw raised, as if he was pointing at some invisible game; then he barked furiously, and was suddenly silent.
-- Two hours passed, during which the apes took care not to show themselves, but they were still there, and three or four times a nose or a paw was poked out at the door or windows, and was immediately saluted by a gun-shot.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
-- Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.
-- 'Her paw went into your eye?
-- This is a serious question, my dear, and you should not go on licking your paw like that as if Dinah hadn't washed you this morning!You see, Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King.
-- You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know Oh, Kitty, do help to settle it!I'm sure your paw can wait!'
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：
-- He, going statelily on his slim legs, walked after her, then suddenly, for pure excess, he gave her a light cuff with his paw on the side of her face.
-- The cat reached forward again and put his fine white paw on the edge of the saucer.
-- And she kept her finger on the softly planted paw of the cat, and her voice had the same whimsical, humorous note of bullying.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for that monstrous animal with 151whom I was so lately engaged (it was indeed as large as an elephant), if my fears had suffered me to think so far as to make use of my hanger,' (looking fiercely, and clapping my hand on the hilt, as I spoke) 'when he poked his paw into my chamber, perhaps I should have given him such a wound, as would have made him glad to withdraw it with more haste than he put it in.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
-- At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked at it as dumb brutes look, as dogs paw and whine and study the knob.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up- stairs the hall was dark, but I found the duke's room, and started to paw around it with my hands; but I recollected it wouldn't be much like the king to let anybody else take care of that money but his own self; so then I went to his room and begun to paw around there.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the cheerful tinkle of the gold, the Fox unconsciously held out his paw that was supposed to be lame, and the Cat opened wide his two eyes till they looked like live coals, but he closed them again so quickly that Pinocchio did not notice.
-- As the Fox talked thus, Pinocchio noticed that the Cat carried his right paw in a sling.
-- With his teeth, he bit off the paw of his front foot and threw it at that poor beast, so that he might have something to eat."
-- Alidoro laughingly held out his paw to the Marionette, who shook it heartily, feeling that now he and the Dog were good friends.
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