seize是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 抓住， 逮住； 夺取， 占领； 没收， 查封，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 more of those terrible creatures that are killed the better, at all events," said John Mangles, "so let's seize the chance, and it will not only give us a little diversion, but be doing a good action."
-- "He is going to desert us," he exclaimed at last, as he saw him seize the reins, as if preparing to mount.
-- But was he living or dead, for his hands made no attempt to seize anything to stop himself.
-- He could not get a fresh horse in the desert, and if an epidemic was going to seize their steeds, they would be seriously embarrassed how to proceed.
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：
-- 'Why should we not seize him at once?'
-- Holmes sank to his waist as he stepped from the path to seize it, and had we not been there to drag him out he could never have set his foot upon firm land again.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The face, especially the eyes, become terribly disfigured, con-vulsions seize the limbs, a terrible cry breaks from the sufferer, a wail from which everything human seems to be blotted out, so that it is impossible to believe that the man who has just fallen is the same who emitted the dreadful cry.
-- Muishkin, who was but a couple of steps away, had time to spring forward and seize the officer's arms from behind.
-- Excuse me, prince!Should he refuse to deliver up his weap-on, then I shall instantly seize one of his arms and General Ivolgin the other, and we shall hold him until the police arrive and take the matter into their own hands.
-- In your place I would send someone there to keep watch, so as to seize the exact moment when she steps out of the house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me?
-- The fierceness of this creature's countenance altogether discomposed me; though I stood at the farther end of the table, above fifty feet off; and although my mistress held her fast, for fear she might give a spring, and seize me in her talons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatsoever the public meeting held in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some Coketowner was sure to seize the occasion of alluding to his eminently practical friend Gradgrind.
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：
-- Carnal appetite makes one seize a beakful of prey: then up, up again, out of the dense into the ethereal, from the wet into the dry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Other motes there were which showed him as a heavy, selfish, drifting Booby, who, having stumbled, in the course of his unwieldy jostlings against other men, on the discovery that to get through life with ease and credit, he had but to hold his tongue, keep the bald part of his head well polished, and leave his hair alone, had had just cunning enough to seize the idea and stick to it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!constrainings seize thee; I see!the billow lifts thee!Speak, but speak! Aye, aye!thy silence, then, that voices thee.
-- Nor even in our superstitions do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid horse.
-- Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or two, in a sudden squall say to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's hair, and hold on there like grim death.
-- "It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship.
-- He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley varied the charm by a lively Scotch air; and soon afterwards Mr. Darcy, drawing near Elizabeth, said to her: 'Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as they got to the place where their other boat lay, they ran their boat into the beach and came all on shore, hauling the boat up after them, which I was glad to see, for I was afraid they would rather have left the boat at an an-chor some distance from the shore, with some hands in her to guard her, and so we should not be able to seize the boat.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now poverty threatened to seize her entirely and to remove this other world far upward like a heaven to which any Lazarus might extend, appealingly, his hands.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All he could do was to seize Pinocchio by the back of the neck and take him home.
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