palm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 手掌, 棕榈，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that evening than during the last two months.
-- he repeated his favorite phrase, and snatching the hand that was stroking his hair, he pressed the open palm to his mouth and kissed it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not comprehend that he was really going to a place of palm trees and brown faces and languid Christmas Eves.
-- He bought, in seventeen minutes, a Palm Beach suit, two new shirts, and, as St. Hubert was a British possession and as he had heard that all Britishers carry canes, a stick which the shop-keeper guaranteed to be as good as genuine malacca.
-- They darted on where the foam feathers below Point Carib and where, round that lone royal palm on the headland, the bright wind hums.
-- The palm thatch sent up thick smoke, dead sluggish white with currents of ghastly black through which broke sudden flames.
-- He had tentatively heard of her dead husband as a young man of wealth and family; he seemed to remember having seen in Vanity Fair a picture of the Lanyons at Palm Beach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And if I could deny her when the tears was on her face, Mas'rDavy,' said Ham, tenderly adjusting it on the rough palm of hishand, 'how could I deny her when she gave me this to carry forher- knowing what she brought it for?
-- 'No, Mr. Traddles,' replied Uriah, resuming his official seat, andsqueezing his bony hands, laid palm to palm, between his bonyknees.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In feeling for each other's palm in the gloom before the money could be passed, a minute incident occurred which told much.
-- Bathsheba too had her sample-bags, and by degrees adopted the professional pour into the hand holding up the grains in her narrow palm for inspection, in perfect Casterbridge manner.
-- He touched the palm of his hand with the blade, and then, lifting it, showed her a thin shaving of scarf-skin dangling therefrom.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't try to palm off that twaddle about the Cause to me.
-- I was crying because I'm so happy," and suddenly she opened herclenched palm and pressed some object that was in it to her lips.
-- She did not even squeeze the hand that Melanie had inserted into her palm for comfort.
-- He laughed again and held the palm of her hand against his hard cheek.
-- He kissed her palm again, and again the skin on the back of her neck crawled excitingly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mr. and Mrs. Hubble might like to see you in your new gen-teel figure too, Pip," said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought of the time when we used to compare slices.
-- He had checked off each bridge in its turn, with the handle of his safe-key on the palm of his hand.
-- When the waiter had felt my fast-cooling teapot with the palm of his hand, and had looked imploringly at me, and had gone out, Drummle, careful not to move the shoulder next me, took a cigar from his pocket and bit the end off, but showed no sign of stirring.
-- The last few drops of liquor he poured into the palm of his hand, and licked up.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his right waistcoat-pocket we found a prodigious bundle of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked 32 Gulliver's Travelswith black figures; which we humbly conceive to be writings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands.
-- He received it on the palm of his hand, then applied it close to his eye to see what it was, and afterwards turned it several times with the point of a pin (which he took out of his sleeve,) but could make nothing of it.
-- He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground with the palm upward, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness.
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