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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had forgotten completely about his conversation with her that afternoon and was carrying on amonologue about the latest news from Fort Sumter, which he punctuated by hammering his fist on the table andwaving his arms in the air.
-- And her heart went up to God in sincerethankfulness that a pathway for her feet had been opened out of her misery and straight to the arms of Ashley.
-- Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in thescents and sounds of Tara.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His back was towards me, and he had his arms folded, and was nodding forward, heavy with sleep.
-- With that, he called to his men, who came trooping into the kitchen one after another, and piled their arms in a corner.
-- "You can say what you like," returned the sergeant, standing coolly looking at him with his arms folded, "but you have no call to say it here.
-- The same opportunity served me for noticing that Mr. Pumblechook appeared to conduct his business by looking across the street at the saddler, who appeared to transact his business by keeping his eye on the coachmaker, who appeared to get on in life by putting his hands in his pockets and contemplating the baker, who in his turn folded his arms and stared at the grocer, who stood at his door and yawned at the chemist.
-- Mr. Pumblechook began again when he had recovered; folding his arms tight on his chest and applying the screw.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ran or flew after her, touched the cage with the flower, and Jorinda stood before him, and threw her arms round his neck looking as beautiful as ever, as beautiful as when they walked together in the wood.
-- The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant: 'You are such a great fellow, and yet cannot even carry the tree!'
-- The cow-herd said: 'All right,' and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture, and set it among the grass.
-- It happened once when the child was a little older, that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep.
-- Then the huntsman arose and said: 'Gracious lord father she is alive still, and I am her son, and I was not carried away by wild beasts, but by that wretch the old cook, who tore me from her arms when she was asleep, and sprinkled her apron with the blood of a chicken.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner.
-- I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length of my coat: but my waist and arms I measured myself.
-- But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinet was near sixty feet long, each key being al-most a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose.
-- I pinched my arms and sides to awake myself, hoping I might be in a dream.
-- And I have rea-son to believe they had some imagination that I was of their own species, which I often assisted myself by stripping up 338 Gulliver's Travelsmy sleeves, and showing my naked arms and breasts in their sight, when my protector was with me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Pegasus's legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon the sign-board, the Pegasus's Arms was inscribed in Roman letters.
-- It was so pathetic to hear her saying many things of this kind, with her face turned upward, and her arms stretched out as if she were trying to stop his departing shadow and embrace it, that no one spoke a word until Mr. Bounderby (growing impatient) took the case in hand.
-- But she had to take her farewell of the male part of the company yet, and every one of them had to unfold his arms (for they all assumed the professional attitude when they found themselves near Sleary), and give her a parting kiss Master Kidderminster excepted, in whose young nature there was an original flavour of the misanthrope, who was also known to have harboured matrimonial views, and who moodily withdrew.
-- Opening his arms wide he took her by both her hands, and would have sprung her up and down, after the riding-master manner of congratulating young ladies on their dismounting from a rapid act; but there was no rebound in Sissy, and she only stood before him crying.
-- Young Thomas expressed these sentiments sitting astride of a chair before the fire, with his arms on the back, and his sulky face on his arms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Follow the direction of one of its innumerable fjords or arms of the sea, and what do you see below the sixty-fifth degree of latitude?"
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