limp是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 柔软的, 软弱的; vt. /n. 跛行, 蹒跚，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Slightly observant of the smoky lights; of the people, pipe in mouth, playing with limp cards and yellow dominoes; of the one barebreasted, bare-armed, soot-begrimed workman reading a journal aloud, and of the others listening to him; of the weapons worn, or laid aside to be resumed; of the two or three customers fallen forward asleep, who in the pop-ular high-shouldered shaggy black spencer looked, in that attitude, like slumbering bears or dogs; the two outlandish customers approached the counter, and showed what they wanted.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Billy the Mule stumped off with the swaggering limp of an old campaigner, as the troop-horse's head came nuzzling into my breast, and I gave him biscuits, while Vixen, who is a most conceited little dog, told him fibs about the scores of horses that she and I kept.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The long white ridge of his spine, with the huge, prominent shoulder blades and jutting ribs and vertebrae, was bare, and Marya Nikolaevna and the waiter were struggling with the sleeve of the night shirt, and could not get the long, limp arm into it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It consisted of a brown body-coat with a great many brass buttons up the front and only one behind, a bright check neckerchief, a plaid waistcoat, soiled white trousers, and a very limp hat, worn with the wrong side foremost, to hide a hole in the brim.
-- His dress consisted of a large high-crowned hat, a worn dark suit, a pair of capacious shoes, and a dirty white neckerchief sufficiently limp and crumpled to disclose the greater portion of his wiry throat.
-- 'Will you be kind enough to add to it, Sir,' said Dick, producing a very small limp card, 'that that is my address, and that I am to be found at home every morning.
-- Perhaps his imperturbable character was never more strikingly developed, for he preserved his usual equable smile notwithstanding that his body was dangling in a most uncomfortable position, all loose and limp and shapeless, while his long peaked cap, unequally balanced against his exceedingly slight legs, threatened every instant to bring him toppling down.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lingered and lingered on, till there was no difference between the eastern and western expanses of sky, and the timid hares began to limp courageously round the dim hillocks.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 莽卢卢 5 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 The color of the men's coats were problematical; such shoes, in more fashionable quarters, are only to be seen lying in the gutter; the cuffs and collars were worn and frayed at the edges; every limp article of clothing looked like the ghost of its former self.
-- Ordinarily he wore a shabby coat and waistcoat, the limp black cravat, untidily knotted, that students affect, trousers that matched the rest of his costume, and boots that had been resoled.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said nothing, but lifted her limp hand to hislips and kissed it.
-- She felt as limp as a rag doll, warm, weak and helpless,and his supporting arms were so pleasant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby's, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Mrs. Sparsit's limp and streaming state, no extensive precautions were necessary to change her usual appearance; but, she stopped under the lee of the station wall, tumbled her shawl into a new shape, and put it on over her bonnet.
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：
-- The poor flowers hung over, limp on their stalks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under one arm he carried a limp and worn-out case, containing some wind instrument; in the same hand he had a pennyworth of snuff in a little packet of whitey-brown paper, from which he slowly comforted his poor blue old nose with a lengthened-out pinch, as Arthur Clennam looked at him.
-- He had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes and such limp little eyelids that it wouldn't stick in when he put it up, but kept tumbling out against his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very much.
-- 'The dear little thing,' said Flora, 'having gone off perfectly limp and white and cold in my own house or at least papa's for though not a freehold still a long lease at a peppercorn on the morning when Arthur foolish habit of our youthful days and Mr Clennam far more adapted to existing circumstances particularly addressing a stranger and that stranger a gentleman in an elevated station communicated the glad tidings imparted by a person of name of Pancks emboldens me.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately, Mr. Bhaer considered her the most beautiful woman living, and she found him more 'Jove-like' than ever, though his hatbrim was quite limp with the little rills trickling thence upon his shoulders (for he held the umbrella all over Jo), and every finger of his gloves needed mending.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cheeks were alternately limp and tightly puffed.
-- The face of Mr. Cuss was angry and resolute, but his costume was defective, a sort of limp white kilt that could only have passed muster in Greece.
-- It hung limp for a moment in mid-air, fluttered weirdly, stood full and decorous buttoning itself, and sat down in his chair.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he got up, he was lame and could hardly limp as far as the stable.
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