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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He can twist the neck of a horse with a single stroke of his paw.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shall not be a loser!But for goodness' sake, don't twist about like that, sir!I have heard of you; they tell me you are a very learned person.
-- She is a contemptible old thing, but she is able to twist people round her little finger, and I admire that in her, at all events!How mean it all is, and how foolish!We were always middle-class, thorough-ly middle-class, people.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he whirled her round with a twist of his hand, and flung her down from heaven so that she fell on to the fields of mortal men; and he was ever an-gry with her when he saw his son groaning under the cruel labours that Eurystheus laid upon him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Respectfully but it is so " "If you don't shut up I shall twist your wrist again," said the Invisible Man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery gave an ugly twist to his dropping lip.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turn for turn and twist for twist (Run and hide thee, Nag.)
-- You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky's not the way of Winkie Pop!
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：
-- Something seemed to twist his heart, and suddenly he felt an exultation, a sense of wonderful freedom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as bandy-legs or such physical deformities in children are held to be the consequence of bad nursing, so, if in a mind so beautiful any moral twist or handiness could be found, Miss Sally Brass's nurse was alone to blame.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a few minutes all went on well, and she was just saying, 'I really shall do it this time ' when the path gave a sudden twist and shook itself (as she described it afterwards), and the next moment she found herself actually walking in at the door.
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：
-- A strong spirit in him woke him and made him lift his face and twist to look at her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
-- What an excellent example of the power of dress, young Oliver Twist was!Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society.
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation.
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