clutch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 抓住, 攫住; n. 抓, 攫, 控制; 离合器，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：
-- Its tenacious grip plucked at our heels as we walked, and when we sank into it it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths, so grim and purposeful was the clutch in which it held us.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these traces of his life seemed to clutch him, and to say to him: "No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, but you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you."
-- Ivan, obviously doing his best to save her every minute of unnecessary labor, made haste, opening his arms to clutch the bundle and lay it in the cart.
-- He tried to clutch at the edge of the table, dropped the revolver, staggered, and sat down on the ground, looking about him in astonishment.
-- Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 110 Crime and Punishment 'So probably men led to execution clutch mentally at ev-ery object that meets them on the way,' flashed through his mind, but simply flashed, like lightning; he made haste to dismiss this thought芒聙娄.
-- He seemed to clutch at everything and smiled coldly when he recognised it, for he had fully made up his mind to go to the police station and knew that it would all soon be over.
-- Some of them he liked and tried to clutch at, but they faded and all the while there was an oppression within him, but it was not overwhelming, sometimes it was even pleasant芒聙娄.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man replied by shaking the little purse in his eager hand, and then throwing it down upon the table, and gathering up the cards as a miser would clutch at gold.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!You think the Hindu custom barbarous but wouldyou have had the courage to appear here tonight if the Confederacy hadn't needed you?"
-- If she could only win to Ellen!If only, by a miracle of God, Tara were stillstanding and she could drive up the long avenue of trees and go into the house and see her mother's kind, tender face,could feel once more the soft capable hands that drove out fear, could clutch Ellen's skirts and bury her face in them.
-- Prissy moaned, peering at the dark trees that closed about them on both sides of the road trees which mightreach out and clutch her if she left the shelter of the wagon.
-- Tara had escaped!Home!She dropped the bridle and ran the last fewsteps, leaped forward with an urge to clutch the walls themselves in her arms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made as little use of it as possible, trusting to my own agility and doing miracles in the way of feats of dexterity and strength upon the projecting shelves and spurs of lava which my feet seemed to clutch as strongly as my hands.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It made her want to cling fast to him, to hold him, for there was a warm, half-sleepy remoteness in his beauty that made her want to cry out and clutch him, to have him.
-- It seemed so still, like him, with a curious inward stillness that made her want to clutch it, as if she could not reach it.
-- And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Merdle himself was usually late on these occasions, as a man still detained in the clutch of giant enterprises when other men had shaken off their dwarfs for the day.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and a clutch at his hair, as became a distracted composer.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-coloured eye intently looking at you, made you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what.
-- A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
-- he intensely whispered, seizing the helm "gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!My God, men, stand by!Shove him off, you Queequeg the whale there! prick him! hit him!Stand up stand up, and stay so!Spring, men pull, men; never mind their backs scrape them! scrape away!"
-- "Stern all!Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!"
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