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 savage struggled powerfully to gain the point of safety, and, favored by the glancing water, he was already stretch-ing forth an arm to meet the grasp of his companions, when he shot away again with the shirling current, appeared to rise into the air, with uplifted arms and starting eyeballs, and fell, with a sudden plunge, into that deep and yawn-ing abyss over which he hovered.
-- The first generous impulse of Duncan was to rush to the rescue of the hapless wretch; but he felt himself bound to the spot by the iron grasp of the immovable scout.
-- The arm of the latter slowly gave way before the increasing force of the scout, who, suddenly wresting his armed hand from the grasp of the foe, drove the sharp weapon through his naked bosom to the heart.
-- Heyward felt the grasp of the other at his throat, and saw the grim smile the savage gave, under the revengeful hope that he hurried his enemy to a fate similar to his own, as he felt his body slowly yield-ing to a resistless power, and the young man experienced the passing agony of such a moment in all its horrors.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, Neb having tightened his grasp on his stick, was just going to fell the pig, when the latter, tearing itself from Top's teeth, by which it was only held by the tip of its ear, uttered a vigorous grunt, rushed upon Herbert, almost overthrew him, and disappeared in the wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That amiable virgin, having clung to the skirts of the Law from her earliest youth; having sustained herself by their aid, as it were, in her first running alone, and maintained a firm grasp upon them ever since; had passed her life in a kind of legal childhood.
-- But Nell retained her grasp upon the old man's arm, and long after he was slumbering soundly, watched him with untiring eyes.
-- Fatigue stole over her at last; her grasp relaxed, tightened, relaxed again, and they slept side by side.
-- CHAPTER 60Kit stood as one entranced, with his eyes opened wide and fixed upon the ground, regardless alike of the tremulous hold which Mr Brass maintained on one side of his cravat, and of the firmer grasp of Miss Sally upon the other; although this latter detention was in itself no small inconvenience, as that fascinating woman, besides screwing her knuckles inconveniently into his throat from time to time, had fastened upon him in the first instance with so tight a grip that even in the disorder and distraction of his thoughts he could not divest himself of an uneasy sense of choking.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention and repeated a name.
-- I have suspected since that the Morlocks had even partially taken it to pieces while trying in their dim way to grasp its purpose.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at this there came suddenly a lowering shadow over his face, and he tightened his grasp upon my hand and raised a forefinger threateningly before my eyes.
-- They did not fall alone; with a choked cry, the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds and plunged head first into the water.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One grasp of the hand, and may God protect us!"
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：
-- She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding.
-- But he sat glistening and obstinate, forcing the wheeling mare, which spun and swerved like a wind, and yet could not get out of the grasp of his will, nor escape from the mad clamour of terror that resounded through her, as the trucks thumped slowly, heavily, horrifying, one after the other, one pursuing the other, over the rails of the crossing.
-- There was no escape, there was nothing to grasp hold of.
-- In the grasp of his hand her chin was unutterably soft and silken.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I leant forward also, for the purpose of signing to Heathcliff, whose step I recognised, not to come further; and, at the instant when my eye quitted Hareton, he gave a sudden spring, delivered himself from the careless grasp that held him, and fell.
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