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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.
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：
-- 'You will diminish them, indeed,' returned the arch girl; 'for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execu-tion and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The limpid waters of the Red Creek flowed under an arch of casuannas, banksias, and gigantic gum-trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- oh no, thank God, not to her; for as she stood, in an extremity of fear, hesitating whether to scream for help, or come from her hiding-place and fly, before he should draw nearer, there issued slowly forth from the arch another figure that of a boy who carried on his back a trunk.
-- 'Codlin an't without his usefulness,' observed Short with an arch look, 'but he don't always keep his eyes open.
-- If the peace of the simple village had moved the child more strongly, because of the dark and troubled ways that lay beyond, and through which she had journeyed with such failing feet, what was the deep impression of finding herself alone in that solemn building, where the very light, coming through sunken windows, seemed old and grey, and the air, redolent of earth and mould, seemed laden with decay, purified by time of all its grosser particles, and sighing through arch and aisle, and clustered pillars, like the breath of ages gone!Here was the broken pavement, worn, so long ago, by pious feet, that Time, stealing on the pilgrims' steps, had trodden out their track, and left but crumbling stones.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Ph脜聯nician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-worn.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was standing before an arched doorway over which were the words QUEEN ALICE in large letters, and on each side of the arch there was a bell-handle; one was marked 'Visitors' Bell,' and the other 'Servants' Bell.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a complete vaulted arch overhanging us, and our ascent was changed to a circular walk.
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：
-- At last they were under the huge arch of the station, in the tremendous shadow of the town.
-- They had descended the hill, and now they were coming to the square arch where the road passed under the colliery railway.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses.
-- We made ourselves as snug as our means allowed in the arch of the dresser.
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