finger是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 手指； 指状物； 指针，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every morning the woman crept to the little stable, and cried: 'Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel if you will soon be fat.'
-- So she made the sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself.
-- One of them now no-ticed a gold ring still remaining on the little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.
-- But the old woman called out, 'Come and eat your suppers, and let the thing be till tomorrow; the finger won't run away.'
-- 'The old woman is right,' said the robbers, and they 135ceased looking for the finger and sat down.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered in a few words, but in the most sub-missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my im-patience (perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.
-- After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of 44 Gulliver's Travelsmy right ear.
-- I fell on my knees, and begged the honour of kissing her imperial foot; but this gracious princess held out her little finger towards me, after I was set on the table, 121which I embraced in both my arms, and put the tip of it with the utmost respect to my lip.
-- I measured a little finger which had fallen down from one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly four feet and an inch in length.
-- I answered, 'that was needless, and would take up too much time; for there was no more to be done, but let one of the crew put his finger into the ring, and take the box out of the sea into the ship, and so into the captain's cabin.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
-- Sissy flushed and started, and Louisa put her finger on her lip.
-- 'Ith a fact,' said Sleary, 'and even knowin' it, you couldn't put your finger on him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spread it before me on the table, I passed my finger over each letter, I spelled it through; in my excitement I read it out.
-- "Follow my finger to the western coast of Iceland, there you see Reykjavik, its capital.
-- Then without further remark, he put his finger to his lips, frowned darkly, and descended into the small boat which awaited us.
-- We were, in fact, to consider the pointed peak as the stylus of an immense sun-dial, the shadow of which pointed on one given day, like the inexorable finger of fate, to the yawning chasm which led into the interior of the earth.
-- Suddenly the imperturbable Hans once more pointed his finger to the menacing object: "Holme!"
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 said, as his finger ca-ressed the delicate, warm, secret skin of her waist and hips.
-- Then he sat down on his heels and peered under the chair, poking with his finger at the greasy little engine, and resenting the grease-marks on his clean Sunday shirt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.
-- Mrs Merdle curled the little finger of her left hand as who should say, 'I have caught you.
-- He carried his finger slowly down to the wrist, and round the wrist, and affected to look at the back of the hand for what was behind him.
-- The dismissal, and its accompanying finger pointed straight at the door, was so curt and direct that Mr Pancks did not see his way to prolong his visit.
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