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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His deep chest heaved as with a ground-swell; his tossed arms seemed the warring elements at work; and the thunders that rolled away from off his swarthy brow, and the light leaping from his eye, made all his simple hearers look on him with a quick fear that was strange to them.
-- Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.
-- For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog, throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam.
-- Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
-- There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All our industry and ability were devoted to packing every object in the most advantageous manner--the instruments on one side, the arms on the other, the tools here and the provisions there.
-- Our arms consisted of two rifles, with two revolving six-shooters.
-- Why these arms were provided it was impossible for me to say.
-- My arms are right--but my legs are getting a little stiff."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the tightness of his arms round her, even the intense movement of his body, and the springing of his seed in her, was a kind of sleep, from which she did not begin to rouse till he had finished and lay softly panting against her breast.
-- He lay there with his arms round her, his body on hers, his wet body touching hers, so close.
-- And he stepped up to her and put his arms around her.
-- It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
-- Yet again, once you had got right down and into the twisted and crooked heart of the town, behind the church, you were in the world of two centuries ago, in the crooked streets where the Chatterley Arms stood, and the old phar-macy, streets which used to lead Out to the wild open world of the castles and stately couchant houses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an iron box some two feet square, which he carried under his arms pretty easily.
-- So diminutive she looked, so fragile and defenceless against the bleak damp weather, flitting along in the shuffling shadow of her charge, that he felt, in his compassion, and in his habit of considering her a child apart from the rest of the rough world, as if he would have been glad to take her up in his arms and carry her to her journey's end.
-- Clennam's eyes had strayed to a natural picture on the wall, of two pretty little girls with their arms entwined.
-- Tattycoram set her full red lips together, and crossed her arms upon her bosom.
-- After that, her crying became remorseful, and she got up and put her arms round her sister.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having no top to its head, she tied on a neat little cap, and as both arms and legs were gone, she hid these deficiencies by folding it in a blanket and devoting her best bed to this chronic invalid.
-- she did go in, right up to Mr. Laurence, who looked quite tak-en aback, and held out her hand, saying, with only a small quaver in her voice, 'I came to thank you, sir, for...' But she didn't finish, for he looked so friendly that she forgot her speech and, only remembering that he had lost the little girl he loved, she put both arms round his neck and kissed him.
-- They crimped and curled her hair, they polished her neck and arms with some fragrant powder, touched her lips with coralline salve to make them redder, and Hortense would have added 'a soupcon of rouge', if Meg had not rebelled.
-- Mrs. March was herself again directly, read the message over, and stretched out her arms to her daughters, saying, in a tone they never forgot, 'I shall go at once, but it may be too late.
-- 'My poor dear, how dreadful for you!I ought to have gone,' said Jo, taking her sister in her arms as she sat down in her mother's bit chair, with a remorseful face.
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