cling是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 抱紧; 坚守，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could endure it all, ill-usage, soli-tude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother,' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An honest Delaware now, being fairly vanquished, would have lain still, and been knocked on the head, but these knavish Maquas cling to life like so many cats-o'-the-mountain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In order, however, to maintain such views they instinctively cling to such circles in which the same views are held.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it was mere childish affection that made her cling to me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes, for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt my naked feet cling to the rungs of an iron ladder.
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：
-- The worst of it is, they cling on to the living, and won't let go."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to realise it in a sort of pussy-like way and instinctively concluded to cling with her soft little claws to Carrie.
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