embrace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 拥抱; 利用; 包含，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face reddened with shame at the thought; and then there came across him as in a flash the memory of the incidents at the Pavlofsk station, and at the other station in the morning; and the question asked him by Rogojin about THE EYES and Rogojin's cross, that he was even now wearing; and the benediction of Rogojin's mother; and his embrace on the darkened staircase that last supreme renunciation and now, to find himself full of this new 'idea,' staring into shop-windows, and looking round for things how base he was!
-- There was a moment, during this long, wretched walk back from the Petersburg Side, when the prince felt an ir-resistible desire to go straight to Rogojin's, wait for him, embrace him with tears of shame and contrition, and tell him of his distrust, and finish with it once for all.
-- Do you know, my dear fellow, I really must kiss you, and embrace you, this very moment.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She set herself to think how she might hoodwink him, and in the end she deemed that it would be best for her to go to Ida and array herself in rich attire, in the hope that Jove might become enamoured of her, and wish to embrace her.
-- Then Jove said to Apollo, 'Go, dear Phoebus, to Hector, for Neptune who holds the earth in his embrace has now gone down under the sea to avoid the severity of my displeasure.
-- But Lycaon came up to him dazed and trying hard to embrace his knees, for he would fain live, not die.
-- I see a man who I think will presently fall upon us; let us fly with our horses, or at least embrace his knees and implore him to take com-passion upon us?'
-- Go you within, and embrace the knees of the son of Peleus: beseech him by his father, his lovely mother, and his son; thus you may move him.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the islet upon which the castaways had first landed, the name of Safety Island; to the plateau which crowned the high granite precipice above the Chimneys, and from whence the gaze could embrace the whole of the vast bay, the name of Prospect Heights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one evening, as Nell was returning from a lonely walk, she happened to pass the inn where the stage-coaches stopped, just as one drove up, and there was the beautiful girl she so well remembered, pressing forward to embrace a young child whom they were helping down from the roof.
-- cried Quilp, extending his arms as if about to embrace her.
-- And there, too, is the ever faithful Barbara's mother, still holding the baby as if she had never put it down since that sad day when they little hoped to have such joy as this there she is, Heaven bless her, crying her eyes out, and sobbing as never woman sobbed before; and there is little Barbara poor little Barbara, so much thinner and so much paler, and yet so very pretty trembling like a leaf and supporting herself against the wall; and there is Mrs Garland, neater and nicer than ever, fainting away stone dead with nobody to help her; and there is Mr Abel, violently blowing his nose, and wanting to embrace everybody; and there is the single gentleman hovering round them all, and constant to nothing for an instant; and there is that good, dear, thoughtful little Jacob, sitting all alone by himself on the bottom stair, with his hands on his knees like an old man, roaring fearfully without giving any trouble to anybody; and each and all of them are for the time clean out of their wits, and do jointly and severally commit all manner of follies.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This Ustinoff had been pursuing her with his attentions for a long time, and as he tried to embrace her she pushed him away with such force that he struck the shelving, and two bottles came crashing to the floor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- VIGO BAYThe Atlantic!a vast sheet of water whose superficial area covers twenty-five millions of square miles, the length of which is nine thousand miles, with a mean breadth of two thousand seven hundred an ocean whose parallel winding shores embrace an immense circumference, watered by the largest rivers of the world, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Plata, the Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, which carry water from the most civilised, as well as from the most savage, countries!Magnificent field of water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, sheltered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so dreaded by mariners, Cape Horn and the Cape of Tempests.
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：
-- And again chuckling, she rushed to embrace the dog, in penitence, as if she were doing him some subtle injury.
-- And she flew off to embrace the chagrined little dog.
-- The great serpent had got the father, and the son was dragged into the embrace of horrifying death along with him.
-- And now, under the bridge, the master of them all pressed her to himself!And how much more powerful and terrible was his embrace than theirs, how much more concentrated and supreme his love was, than theirs in the same sort!She felt she would swoon, die, under the vibrating, inhuman tension of his arms and his body she would pass away.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cathy, catching a glimpse of her friend in his concealment, flew to embrace him; she bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek within the second, and then stopped, and drawing back, burst into a laugh, exclaiming, 'Why, how very black and cross you look!and how how funny and grim!
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