nail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 指甲， 爪； 钉v. 将…钉牢， 钉住，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：
-- He was a tall, thin, withered-looking man, about forty years of age, and resembled a long nail with a big head.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The horse is here belonging to Mak...Mak...I never can say the name," said the Englishman, over his shoulder, pointing his big finger and dirty nail towards Gladiator's stall.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John F. Zeisser, M.A., M.D., nail the rest of the alphabet (part your hair Jack and look cute, the ladies will love you) will unlimber a coupla key- notes.
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：
-- He felt as if a nail were being driven into his skull.
-- Thousands of times I've fought tooth and nail with people and run back to them afterwards芒聙娄.
-- I was fighting tooth and nail with them and wanted you to help me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she turned blindly, benton flight into the refreshment rooms, but her skirt caught on a nail of the booth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You hit the nail on the head.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now,' said the grinder, as he gave him a common rough stone that lay by his side, 'this is a most capital stone; do but work it well enough, and you can make an old nail cut with it.'
-- said the eldest, 'it is noth-ing but a nail in the wall.'
-- She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember, one morning, when Glumdalclitch had set me in a box upon a window, as she usually did in fair days to give me air (for I durst not venture to let the box be hung on a nail out of the window, as we do with cages in Eng-land), after I had lifted up one of my sashes, and sat down at my table to eat a piece of sweet cake for my breakfast, above twenty wasps, allured by the smell, came flying into the room, humming louder than the drones of as many bagpipes.
-- When I had done, Glumdalclitch always carried back my boat into her closet, and hung it on a nail to dry.
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：
-- ' I shall never divorce you,' he said, as if a nail had been driven in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas she had put the lump of coarse bread into the swart, scaled, knotted hands of John Baptist (who had scarcely as much nail on his eight fingers and two thumbs as would have made out one for Monsieur Rigaud), with ready confidence; and, when he kissed her hand, had herself passed it caressingly over his face.
-- The last house in Bleeding Heart Yard which she had described as his place of habitation, was a large house, let off to various tenants; but Plornish ingeniously hinted that he lived in the parlour, by means of a painted hand under his name, the forefinger of which hand (on which the artist had depicted a ring and a most elaborate nail of the genteelest form) referred all inquirers to that apartment.
-- In this was to be found the basis of the wise system, by tooth and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British subject to be ingenious at his peril: of harassing him, obstructing him, inviting robbers (by making his remedy uncertain, and expensive) to plunder him, and at the best of confiscating his property after a short term of enjoyment, as though invention were on a par with felony.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship.
-- Ha, ha!old Ahab!the White Whale; he'll nail ye!This is a pine tree.
-- When the last nail was driven, and the lid duly planed and fitted, he lightly shouldered the coffin and went forward with it, inquiring whether they were ready for it yet in that direction.
-- "And shall I nail down the lid, sir?"
-- Nail down the lid; caulk the seams; pay over the same with pitch; batten them down tight, and hang it with the snap-spring over the ship's stern.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Packard didn't take no notice of that, but hung up his lantern on a nail and started towards where I was there in the dark, and motioned Bill to come.
-- Then Tom marked out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of his candle quit on him, and then he could go to bed, and hide the grindstone under his straw tick and sleep on it.
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