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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The population does not exceed 150 inhabitants, and consists of English and Americans, married to negroes and Cape Hottentots, who might bear away the palm for ugliness.
-- Now Hottam Station bore the palm for business and extent.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal.
-- Ajax in his turn struck noble Phorcys son of Phaenops in the middle of the belly as he was bestriding Hippothous, and broke the plate of his cuirass; whereon the spear tore out his entrails and he clutched the ground in his palm as he fell to earth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he put his open palm over his face and withdrew it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.'
-- 'Let me look,' said a woman with heavy copper rings on her wrists and ankles, and she peered at Mowgli under the palm of her hand.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a matter of no little vanity to him on Sundays, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of cho-sen singers; where, in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from the parson.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They knew the seal perfectly well; it was as broad as the palm of my hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then there appeared confounded together and intermixed, the trees of such varied lands, specimens of the vegetation of every part of the globe; there was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus, an interesting class of the order Myrtaceae--leaning against the tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its branches with those of the New Zealand kauris.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I wish you'd show me the palm of your hand,' said Pancks.
-- When he had folded it into a number of layers, one over another, so that it was small in the palm of his hand, he began to flatten it between both his hands, and to eye Clennam attentively.
-- Mr Flintwinch, stiffening with indignation and amazement, moistened the fingers of one hand at his lips, softly described a circle with them in the palm of the other hand, and continued with a menacing grin to screw himself in the direction of his wife; gasping some remark as he advanced, of which, in his choking anger, only the words, 'Such a dose!'
-- 'There are only three branches of my subject, my dear Clennam,' said Doyce, proceeding to mould them severally, with his plastic thumb, on the palm of his hand, 'and they're soon disposed of.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A burnt offering has been made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than blisters, and I'm sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a man's hand, and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks.
-- Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
-- For being at Tranque, years ago, when attached to the trading-ship Dey of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a sea-side glen not very far distant from what our sailors called Bamboo-Town, his capital.
-- But in this matter of the whale, be the front of thy face to me as the palm of this hand a lipless, unfeatured blank.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having replaced these trinkets, the Jew took out another: so small that it lay in the palm of his hand.
-- Stretching forth her trembling fingers as she spoke, the old creature shook them exultingly before her face, and fumbling in her pocket, brought out an old time-discoloured tin snuff-box, from which she shook a few grains into the outstretched palm of her companion, and a few more into her own.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't palm all your abuses of languages upon me."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now," he concluded, showing the palm of one of his white hands in a sort of at-an-end, helpless expression, "what shall I do?"
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