elbow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 肘, 衣服肘部 vt. 用肘推、 挤，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：
-- Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; 64 Sons and Loversand at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus 45engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand, Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but coughed just one grain of cough.
-- He stood, half turned from the prisoner, lounging with his elbow against the bar.
-- But, when his nephew, leaning an elbow on the table, covered his eyes thoughtfully and dejectedly with his hand, the fine mask looked at him sideways with a stronger con-centration of keenness, closeness, and dislike, than was 173comportable with its wearer's assumption of indifference.
-- He leaned an elbow on her table, and covered his eyes 212 A tale of two citieswith his hand.
-- The spy, who was there to pick up any crumbs he could 257find or make, did not allow his baffled state to express- itself in his sinister face; but, stood with an air of gossiping gallantry, leaning his elbow on Madame Defarge's little counter, and occasionally sipping his cognac.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And do you know, Kostya, I'll tell you the truth," he went on, leaning his elbow on the table, and propping on his hand his handsome ruddy face, in which his moist, good-natured, sleepy eyes shone like stars.
-- Sviazhsky was sitting sideways, with one elbow on the table, and a cup in one hand, while with the other hand he gathered up his beard, held it to his nose and let it drop again, as though he were smelling it.
-- "Sit down!I have to speak to you," he said, putting the portfolio under his arm, and squeezing it so tightly with his elbow that his shoulder stood up.
-- Kitty was silent for a few seconds, looking timidly and ruefully at her husband; then she went up and took him by the elbow with both hands.
-- He was sitting raised up with one elbow on the bed, his long back bent, and his head hanging low.
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：
-- Marmeladov struck his forehead with his fist, clenched his teeth, closed his eyes and leaned heavily with his elbow on the table.
-- He put his elbow on the table and leaned his head on his hand.
-- He sat down with his elbow on the table, leaned his head on his hand and looked away sullenly, prepared to listen.
-- Raskolnikov put his elbow on the table and passed his fingers through his hair.
-- Raskolnikov dropped his right elbow on the table, leaned his chin in the fingers of his right hand, and stared intent-ly at Svidriga脙炉lov.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This extremely artful suggestion, Mr. Barkisaccompanied with a nudge of his elbow that gave me quite a stitchin my side.
-- 192CHAPTER XIVMy Aunt Makes Up Her Mind about MeON going down in the morning, I found my aunt musing soprofoundly over the breakfast-table, with her elbow on the tray,that the contents of the urn had overflowed the tea-pot and werelaying the whole tablecloth under water, when my entrance puther meditations to flight.
-- But instead of sitting in her usual manner,holding her glass upon her knee, she suffered it to stand neglectedon the chimney-piece; and, resting her left elbow on her right arm,and her chin on her left hand, looked thoughtfully at me.
-- My aunt leaned her elbow on the little round table that she usuallykept beside her, and eyed him attentively.
-- he inquired, following thedirection of my glance, and polishing the elbow with his arm.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Liddy chose a position at her elbow and began to sew, sometimes pausing and looking round, or, with the air of a privileged person, taking up one of the half-sovereigns lying before her and surveying it merely as a work of art, while strictly preventing her countenance from expressing any wish to possess it as money.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow height, and the rest of the wall space is decorated with a varnished paper, on which the principal scenes from _Telemaque_ are depicted, the various classical personages being colored.
-- He sent up his name to the Countess, and waited in the ante-chamber, standing on one foot before a window that looked out upon the court; mechanically he leaned his elbow against the sash, and stared before him.
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