arms是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 武器，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength.
-- It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her 'Dear, dear broth-er.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- His shirt-sleeves were rolled up, too, and his brown arms were bare to the elbows.
-- shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extend-ing both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him.
-- That fountain suggested the Par-is fountain, the little bundle lying on the step, the women bending over it, and the tall man with his arms up, crying, 'Dead!'
-- Answering the touch for a moment, but not coldly, her father rested his hands upon the arms of his chair, and looked up for the first time since the beginning of the conference.
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 healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, 'Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age"; the others were either blind, had with-ered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands.
-- Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sal-low arms of the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine of 'Miserabili, miserabili, excellenza!'
-- The little girl put her arms around his neck.
-- Presently she sailed by a large cherry-orchard, where was a little cottage with cu-rious red and blue windows; it was thatched, and before it two wooden soldiers stood sentry, and presented arms when anyone went past.
-- Their brother, who is older than they are, stands up in the swing; he twines his arms round the cords to hold himself fast, for in one hand he has a little cup, and in the other a clay-pipe.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A boy in Russian dress, desperately waving his arms and bowed down to the ground, overtook her.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch crushed the starchy napkin, tucked it into his waistcoat, and settling his arms comfortably, started on the oysters.
-- She took her in her arms and kissed her.
-- Her bare shoulders and arms gave Kitty a sense of chill marble, a feeling she particularly liked.
-- She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, fascinating the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, fascinating was that lovely face in its eagerness, but there was something terrible and cruel in her fascination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A moderate-sized safe stood in his bedroom, constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars; but Passepartout found neither arms nor hunting weapons anywhere; everything betrayed the most tranquil and peaceable habits.
-- The inanimate victim was borne along by the vigorous arms which supported her, and which she did not seem in the least to burden.
-- "One, sir," replied the Mormon, raising his arms heavenward "one, and that was enough!"
-- At nine the train stopped at the important town of North Platte, built between the two arms of the river, which rejoin each other around it and form a single artery, a large tributary, whose waters empty into the Missouri a little above Omaha.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doubtless Martin should have defied them and with his bride in his arms have gone forth into the night.
-- He landed from a boat at what had been the second story of a tenement and delivered a baby on the top floor; he bound up heads and arms for a line of men; but what gave him glory was the perfectly foolhardy feat of swimming the flood to save five children marooned and terrified on a bobbing church pew.
-- They looked up, arms about each other, squealing softly, and in reverence he grunted, "There--by--jiminy!"
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