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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said to himself again, and stopped as if rooted to the ground by a kind of paralysis of limb such as attacks people under the stress of some humiliating recollection.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Furthermore I will give you strength of heart and limb to bear Automedon safely to the ships from battle, for I shall let the Trojans triumph still further, and go on killing till they reach the ships; whereon night shall fall and darkness overshadow the land.'
-- Is my son still at the ships, or has Achilles hewn him limb from limb, and given him to his hounds?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was dead; and even as he died a line of white heat, the limb of the sun, rose eastward beyond the projection of the bay, splashing its radiance across the sky and turning the dark sea into a weltering tumult of dazzling light.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The waters in the woods, and on the great lakes, run downward until they lie like my hand,' said the Indian, stretching the limb horizontally before him, 'and then they run no more.'
-- But when he felt the fingers of Heyward moving gently along his own naked arm, he struck up the limb of the young man, and, uttering a piercing cry, he darted beneath it, and plunged, at a single bound, into the opposite thicket.
-- The flash of rifles was then quick and close between them, but either party was too well skilled to leave even a limb exposed to the hostile aim.
-- She was often defeated in her purpose, by encountering their watchful eyes, when it became necessary to feign an alarm she did not feel, and occupy the limb by some gesture of feminine apprehen-sion.
-- 'Listen,' said the Indian, laying his hand firmly upon her arm, as if willing to draw her utmost attention to his words; a movement that Cora as firmly but quietly repulsed, by ex-tricating the limb from his grasp: 'Magua was born a chief and a warrior among the red Hurons of the lakes; he saw the suns of twenty summers make the snows of twenty win-ters run off in the streams before he saw a pale face; and he was happy!Then his Canada fathers came into the woods, and taught him to drink the fire-water, and he became a rascal.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair, and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air of fun and arrogance From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of these Mr Quilp delivered himself with the utmost animation and rapidity, and with so many distortions of limb and feature, that even his wife, although tolerably well accustomed to his proficiency in these respects, was well-nigh beside herself with alarm.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you see that Marionette hanging from the limb of that giant oak tree?"
-- "But I began to run," continued the Marionette, "and they after me, until they overtook me and hanged me to the limb of that oak."
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