grasp是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 抓住， 抓紧； 掌握， 领会，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The most transcendental ideas seem to be within my grasp when he's speaking."
-- He had only to recall his brother's wife, to remember how that sweet, delightful Varya sought, at every convenient opportunity, to remind him that she remembered his generosity and appreciated it, to grasp the impossibility of taking back his gift.
-- The simple-hearted Ivan, the cowherd, seemed completely to grasp Levin's proposal--that he should with his family take a share of the profits of the cattle-yard--and he was in complete sympathy with the plan.
-- "It is old; but do you know, when you grasp this fully, then somehow everything becomes of no consequence.
-- They naively believed that it was their business to lay before the commission their needs and the actual condition of things, and to ask assistance of the government, and utterly failed to grasp that some of their statements and requests supported the contention of the enemy's side, and so spoiled the whole business.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout even felt a strong desire to grasp his ally, Fix, by the hand.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could at times take the lead away from Bert, whom he considered useful but slightly indiscreet, and unable to grasp the "full value of a dollar."
-- Mr. Tozer could consider barns and he could consider trunks but his was not a brain to grasp two such complicated matters at the same time.
-- He knew in an unformulated way that Joyce was rich, but after seeing her in gingham, cooking in the kitchen of St. Swithin's almshouse, he did not grasp her position; and he was uncomfortable when, feeling dusty from the laboratory, he came to her great house and found her the soft-voiced mistress of many servants.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sonia had been listening with strained attention, though she too seemed unable to grasp it all; she seemed as though she had just returned to consciousness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here his right hand came slowly and feebly from under the bed-clothes, and with a purposeless uncertain grasp took hold of a stickwhich was loosely tied to the side of the bed.
-- I am aware that I am merely a female, andthat a masculine judgment is usually considered more competentto the discussion of such questions; still I must not forget that,when I lived at home with my papa and mamma, my papa was inthe habit of saying, "Emma's form is fragile, but her grasp of asubject is inferior to none."
-- He walked across the room, and came back tothe same place; holding the chair with a grasp that trembled, likehis subdued voice, in its earnestness.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Troy felt Boldwood's grasp slowly tightening.
-- Whether his grasp pinched her, or whether his mere touch was the cause, was never known, but at the moment of his seizure she writhed, and gave a quick, low scream.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I returned, it was to be sacrificed or to see those whom I most loved die under the grasp of a daemon whom I had myself created.
-- Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of nightmare; I felt the fiend's grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears.
-- The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips.
-- I was possessed by a madden-ing rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head.
-- But now, when I appeared almost within grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished, and I lost all trace of him more utterly than I had ever done before.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took her arm in a strong grasp and some of the vitality which animated himseemed to flow into her body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees, I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding.
-- In short, I turned over on my face when I came to that, and got a good grasp on the hair on each side of my head, and wrenched it well.
-- As my eyes followed her white hand, again the same dim suggestion that I could not possibly grasp crossed me.
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