twist是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 捻, 搓; 扭转; 盘旋; n. 搓, 扭拧; 怪癖，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crush humanity out of shape once more, un-der similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To reach up to the bell was what he did not like; to cry aloud for help would have availed him little; besides, how ashamed would he have been to be found caught in a trap, like an outwitted fox!How was he to twist himself through!He saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain a prisoner till dawn, or, perhaps, even late in the morning; then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars; but all that would not be done so quickly as he could think about it.
-- 'You are so clever,' said the Reindeer; 'you can, I know, twist all the winds of the world together in a knot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pretty, boyish face, with a twist of fresh grass bound round his hair, was all working with effort; but whenever anyone looked at him he smiled.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout, who heard what passed, would willingly have embraced the pilot, while Fix would have been glad to twist his neck.
-- At the least sign of treason, however, I'll twist your neck for you."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Madeline, she wouldn't be allowed to go hanging around men's rooms learning--things, and you think you're so psychological, Mart, but honestly, any smart woman can twist you around her finger."
-- Martin kicked his shins, struck at his boulder of red cheek, tried to twist his arm.
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：
-- Then he seized the stone again and with one twist turned it back, so that it was in the same position again, though it stood a very little higher.
-- I'd twist his nose off at the mere idea!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lifted up her head, and looked darkly round at him for amoment; then laid it down again, and curved her right arm abouther neck, as a woman in a fever, or in an agony of pain from a shot,might twist herself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba, after throwing a glance here, a caution there, and lecturing one of the younger operators who had allowed his last finished sheep to go off among the flock without re-stamping it with her initials, came again to Gabriel, as he put down the luncheon to drag a frightened ewe to his shear-station, flinging it over upon its back with a dexterous twist of the arm.
-- She saw him stoop to the grass, pick up the winding lock which he had severed from her manifold tresses, twist it round his fingers, unfasten a button in the breast of his coat, and carefully put it inside.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
-- As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
-- No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me; no need to take the handkerchief from his neck and twist it round his head; no need to hug himself with both his arms, and take a shivering turn across the room, looking back at me for recognition.
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：
-- He sighed, with a twist of a smile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Pancks asked, with a little inquiring twist of his head, if he might come in again?
-- Here he put the light on his desk, and said to the stranger, with his wryest twist upon him, 'Your commands.'
-- Here the parrot, who had been standing on one leg since he screamed last, burst into a fit of laughter, bobbed himself derisively up and down on both legs, and finished by standing on one leg again, and pausing for a reply, with his head as much awry as he could possibly twist it.
-- Blandois of Paris shook with a laugh again, so that his hand shook more; now he raised it to twist his moustache, which had a damp appearance; and now he stood in the required position, with a little new swagger.
-- With no defined intention of following him, but with an impulse to keep the figure in view a little longer, Clennam quickened his pace to pass the twist in the street which hid him from his sight.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Can't you twist that smaller?"
-- And when after gaining his own deck, and his own pivot-hole there, he so vehemently wheeled round with an urgent command to the steersman (it was, as ever, something about his not steering inflexibly enough); then, the already shaken ivory received such an additional twist and wrench, that though it still remained entire, and to all appearances lusty, yet Ahab did not deem it entirely trustworthy.
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