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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The suit of clothes, now all unbuttoned and hanging loosely upon its unseen supports, stood up, arms akimbo.
-- He lit it clumsily, and folding his arms began to smoke in a languid attitude, an attitude which his occasional glances up the yard altogether belied.
-- Abruptly Huxter's door opened and Huxter appeared, eyes staring with excitement, arms gesticulating.
-- The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash.
-- An ugly-looking man, a hunch-backed human savage to all appearance, squatting in the aperture of one of the dens, would stretch his arms and yawn, showing with startling suddenness scissor-edged in-cisors and sabre-like canines, keen and brilliant as knives.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And then, and then, they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat, and they they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said I was their blood brother except that I had no tail, and should be their leader some day.'
-- Two of the stron-gest monkeys caught Mowgli under the arms and swung off with him through the treetops, twenty feet at a bound.
-- 'Look at the marks on his arms and legs.
-- Of course, in playing together, the cubs had often nipped Mowgli harder than they intended, and there were white scars all over his arms and legs.
-- The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas!
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：
-- A third wore trappings and arms of an officer of the staff; while the rest, from the plainness of the housings, and the traveling mails with which they were encumbered, were evidently fitted for the reception of as many menials, who were, seeming-ly, already waiting the pleasure of those they served.
-- His head was large; his shoulders narrow; his arms long and dangling; while his hands were small, if not delicate.
-- 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.
-- 'I am calmer, Duncan,' said Alice, raising herself from the arms of her sister, and forcing an appearance of compo-sure through her tears; 'much calmer, now.
-- exclaimed Alice, throwing herself into the arms of Cora.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
-- He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a moment Dirk was on his knees beside her, with his arms round her, kissing her, calling her all sorts of pet names, and the facile tears ran down his own cheeks.
-- He sat down on the only chair that had no arms and tilted himself on the back legs.
-- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
-- Ata flung herself on her knees before him, and clasped his legs with her arms and kissed them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were furnished with arms in case they might have to defend themselves when they alighted, and provisions in the event of their aerial voyage being prolonged.
-- Chapter 7 Gideon Spilett was standing motionless on the shore, his arms crossed, gazing over the sea, the horizon of which was lost towards the east in a thick black cloud which was spreading rapidly towards the zenith.
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