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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened that a nail came away with the wood, and projecting, gave a touch of danger to an otherwise petty weapon.
-- The little pink sloth-creature dashed at me, and I gashed down its ugly face with the nail in my stick and in another minute was scrambling up a steep side pathway, a kind of sloping chim-ney, out of the ravine.
-- Or in some narrow pathway, glancing with a transitory dar-ing into the eyes of some lithe, white-swathed female figure, I would suddenly see (with a spasmodic revulsion) that she had slit-like pupils, or glancing down note the curving nail with which she held her shapeless wrap about her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, the scaffolding was made again, and Kit, climbing up with the poker for a hammer, knocked in the nail and hung up the cage, to the immeasurable delight of the whole family.
-- Kit scratched his head mournfully, in reluctant admission that it did not, and clambering up to the old nail took down the cage and set himself to clean it and to feed the bird.
-- Barbara's little looking-glass hung in a good light near the window, and Barbara's bonnet was on a nail behind the door.
-- Here Kit drove a nail into the wall, very hard much harder than was necessary and having done so, faced about again.
-- CHAPTER 53Nell was stirring early in the morning, and having discharged her household tasks, and put everything in order for the good schoolmaster (though sorely against his will, for he would have spared her the pains), took down, from its nail by the fireside, a little bundle of keys with which the bachelor had formally invested her on the previous day, and went out alone to visit the old church.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If," he wrote, "a bacterium were to observe and analyze the nail of a man, it would declare him an inorganic being.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition, the heel of one of my shoes was loose, and a nail was working through the sole they were comfortable old shoes I wore about indoors so that I was lame.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's.
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：
-- Gerald listened with a faint, fine smile on his face, all the time, as if, somewhere, he knew so much better than Birkin, all about this: as if his own knowledge were direct and personal, whereas Birkin's was a matter of observation and inference, not quite hitting the nail on the head: though aiming near enough at it.
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