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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They said nothing compromising, they did not hold hands, and as they rode home in the electric snow-flying darkness, though they sat shoulder by shoulder he did not put his arms about her except when the bob-sled slewed on sharp corners.
-- Three Cigars a Day Week, which Pickerbaugh invented in midsummer, was not altogether successful, partly because an injudicious humorist on a local newspaper wanted to know whether Dr. Pickerbaugh really expected all babes in arms to smoke as many as three cigars a day, and partly because the cigar-manufacturers came around to the Department of Health with strong remarks about Common Sense.
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：
-- He was very drunk: and had dropped asleep on the bench; every now and then, he began as though in his sleep, cracking his fingers, with his arms wide apart and the up-per part of his body bounding about on the bench, while he hummed some meaningless refrain, trying to recall some such lines as these: 'His wife a year he fondly loved His wife a a year he fondly loved.'
-- And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina Ivanovna, in the same si-lence go up to Sonia's little bed; she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia's feet, and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in each other's arms 芒聙娄 together, to-gether 芒聙娄 yes 芒聙娄 and I 芒聙娄 lay drunk.'
-- Marmeladov submissively and obediently held up both arms to facilitate the search.
-- In the first place, she appeared to be a girl quite young, and she was walking in the great heat bareheaded and with no parasol or gloves, waving her arms about in an absurd way.
-- But the poor boy, beside himself, made his way, scream-ing, through the crowd to the sorrel nag, put his arms round her bleeding dead head and kissed it, kissed the eyes and kissed the lips芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the elms bent to one another, like giants who werewhispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell intoa violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their lateconfidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, someweather-beaten ragged old rooks'-nests burdening their higherbranches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
-- said my aunt, folding her arms with her bonnet stilltied on one of them.
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- I really thought she was, she had been so short with me; but I wasquite mistaken: for she laid aside her work (which was a stockingof her own), and opening her arms wide, took my curly headwithin them, and gave it a good squeeze.
-- I did, at least; but I had mydoubts of Peggotty, who was thoughtfully sticking her needle intovarious parts of her face and arms all the time.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did assist; for though he began with grave looks and short questions, he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way, and to take the child out of her arms with all the unceremoniousness of perfect amity.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new-born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full-grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of the legs collectively, which constituted the animal's entire body just at present.
-- 'Tis that bold shepherd up there that have done the most good he sitting on the top o' rick, whizzing his great long arms about like a windmill."
-- And then I was put errand-man at the Women's Skittle Alley at the back of the Tailor's Arms in Casterbridge.
-- continued Mrs. Coggan (a wholesome-looking lady who had a voice for each class of remark according to the emotion involved; who could toss a pancake or twirl a mop with the accuracy of pure mathematics, and who at this moment showed hands shaggy with fragments of dough and arms encrusted with flour).
-- he added, turning with an apologetic smile to the shepherd, who had just appeared on the scene, and was now leaning against the doorpost with his arms folded.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.
-- Everywhere I turn I see the same figure her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier.
-- I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardour, but the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Eliza-beth whom I had loved and cherished.
-- Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from thehouse and she slowed her swift pace.
-- "Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything," he shouted, his thick, short arms making widegestures of indignation, "for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it!
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