limb是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 肢, 臂, 翼, 大树枝，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：
-- One old man says at the fountain, that his right hand, armed with the knife, will be burnt off be-fore his face; that, into wounds which will be made in his arms, his breast, and his legs, there will be poured boiling oil, melted lead, hot resin, wax, and sulphur; finally, that he will be torn limb from limb by four strong horses.
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：
-- Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the pleasure,on this occasion, of renewing the acquaintance of MasterMicawber, whom I found a promising boy of about twelve orthirteen, very subject to that restlessness of limb which is not anunfrequent phenomenon in youths of his age.
-- These observations, andindeed the greater part of the observations made that evening,were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber's discovering that MasterMicawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on withboth arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddlesunder the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, orproducing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous tonature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, ordeveloping his restlessness of limb in some other formincompatible with the general interests of society; and by MasterMicawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is not to be conceived that a man of three or four-and-twenty should not have liberty of mind or limb to that amount.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became con-vulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created.
-- I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When hereturned he had a small limb of a tree in his hand and he laid it mercilessly across the horse's galled back.
-- Rhett made no reply but brought the tree limb down on the horse's back with a cruel force that made the animalleap forward.
-- She mounted the seat and brought down the hickory limb on his back.
-- Turning deliberately, Scarlett raised the tree limb she had been using as a whip and brought it down acrossPrissy's back.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him 'we fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to each other; that we ate when we were not hun-gry, and drank without the provocation of thirst; that we sat whole nights drinking strong liquors, without eating a bit, which disposed us to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or prevented digestion; that prostitute female Yahoos acquired a certain malady, which bred rottenness in the bones of those who fell into their embraces; that this, and many other diseases, were propagated from father to son; so that great numbers came into the world with com-plicated maladies upon them; that it would be endless to give him a catalogue of all diseases incident to human bod-ies, for they would not be fewer than five or six hundred, spread over every limb and joint in short, every part, ex-ternal and intestine, having diseases appropriated to itself.
-- For now I could no longer deny that I was a real Yahoo in every limb and fea-ture, since the females had a natural propensity to me, as one of their own species.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, a native Englishman is put to it every night of his life, to save his life from them Mails,' argued the first old man; 'and he knows when they're a coming round the corner, to tear him limb from limb.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb grace-fully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank, and as silent as the sphinx.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While his one live leg made lively echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap.
-- "Didn't want to try to: ain't one limb enough?
-- For it had not been very long prior to the Pequod's sailing from Nantucket, that he had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible; by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable, unimaginable casualty, his ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise smitten, and all but pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now not a moment to lose, for nineteen of the dreadful wretches sat upon the ground, all close huddled together, and had just sent the other two to butcher the poor Christian, and bring him perhaps limb by limb to their fire, and they were stooping down to untie the bands at his feet.
-- As soon as the bear got out to that part where the limb of the tree was weaker, 'Ha!'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn't wake.
-- Afterwards Jim said the witches be- witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.
-- A couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very friendly.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throwing the rope over the high limb of a giant oak tree, they pulled till the poor Marionette hung far up in space.
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