arch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 拱 v. 拱起，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：
-- Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shad-ows of the night were broad and black.
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：
-- The tendrils of the peas hung down over the boxes; and the rose-trees shot up long branches, twined round the win-dows, and then bent towards each other: it was almost like a triumphant arch of foliage and flowers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that, he made a polite bow; and, with anotherto Miss Dartle, went away through the arch in the wall of holly bywhich he had come.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An arch look expressed 'I understand you well enough;' but she said only, 'Miss Fairfax is reserved.'
-- 'And yet,' said Emma, beginning hastily and with an arch look, but soon stopping it was better, however, to know the worst at once she hurried on 'And yet, perhaps, you may hardly be aware yourself how highly it is.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- During conversations each subjected his sapling to great varieties of usage bending it round his back, forming an arch of it between his two hands, overweighting it on the ground till it reached nearly a semicircle; or perhaps it was hastily tucked under the arm whilst the sample-bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events perfectly well known to half-a-dozen acute town-bred fowls which had as usual crept into the building unobserved, and waited the fulfilment of their anticipations with a high-stretched neck and oblique eye.
-- Something in the exact arch of her upper unbroken row of teeth, and in the keenly pointed corners of her red mouth when, with parted lips, she somewhat defiantly turned up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out.
-- Few men could have resisted the arch yet dignified entreaty of the beautiful face, thrown a little back and sideways in the well known attitude that expresses more than the words it accompanies, and which seems to have been designed for these special occasions.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dark cedars on either side of the graveled drive met in an arch overhead, turning the long avenue into a dimtunnel.
-- Suellen had now come to an"understanding" with Frank Kennedy and sang "When This Cruel War Is Over" with an arch meaning Scarlett foundwell-nigh unendurable, and Carreen was too wrapped up in dreams of Brent Tarleton to be interesting company.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Choose your bridge, Mr. Pip," returned Wemmick, "and take a walk upon your bridge, and pitch your money into the Thames over the centre arch of your bridge, and you know the end of it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But ad-vancing forward towards my master (as I shall henceforth 106 Gulliver's Travelscall him,) his youngest son, who sat next to him, an arch boy of about ten years old, took me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air, that I trembled every limb: but his fa-ther snatched me from him, and at the same time gave him such a box on the left ear, as would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the table.
-- I was every day furnishing the court with some ridic-ulous story: and Glumdalclitch, although she loved me to excess, yet was arch enough to inform the queen, whenever I committed any folly that she thought would be diverting to her majesty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the whole of next day we proceeded on our journey through this interminable gallery, arch after arch, tunnel after tunnel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing along this deep shade, and out at that arch of light at the other end, we come upon the ferry and the cottage by the best approach, I think.'
-- Among the day's unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on trees for many miles; woods of olives; white villages and towns on hill-sides, lovely without, but frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colours and sails of beautiful forms; vast piles of building mouldering to dust; hanging-gardens where the weeds had grown so strong that their stems, like wedges driven home, had split the arch and rent the wall; stone-terraced lanes, with the lizards running into and out of every chink; beggars of all sorts everywhere: pitiful, picturesque, hungry, merry; children beggars and aged beggars.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ever-green arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hang-ing baskets were filled.
-- By-and-by I heard Fred's voice, and then he came hurry-ing through the great arch to find me.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous "whiskers" inside of the whale's mouth;* another, "hogs' bristles"; a third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language: "There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his upper chop, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth."
-- Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth saw what he was doing, and at the first convenient pause, turned to him with an arch smile, and said: 'You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me?
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