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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Rogojin only leaned his elbow on the table and silently stared at me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see.
-- Any how, I sat with my elbow on my knee and my face upon my hand, looking into the fire, as those two talked about my going away, and about what they should do without me, and all that.
-- Between Mr. Pocket and Herbert I got on fast; and, with one or the other always at my elbow to give me the start I wanted, and clear obstructions out of my road, I must have been as great a dolt as Drummle if I had done less.
-- She was at his elbow when he addressed her, putting a dish upon the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a time he controlled himself, and, resting with an elbow on one knee, and his head upon that hand, could look towards Rachael.
-- So, he kissed her and went away; and Louisa returned to the serene apartment of the hair-cutting character, and leaning her elbow on her hand, looked again at the short-lived sparks that so soon subsided into ashes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We sat close together, elbow touching elbow, knee touching knee!We held one another's hands not to be thrown off the raft.
-- Fourteen feet high, covered with coarse hair, of a blackish brown, the hair on the arms, from the shoulder to the elbow joints, pointing downwards, while that from the wrist to the elbow pointed upwards, it advanced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man had put the candlestick upon the table, and, supporting his right elbow with his left hand, was smoothing his leathern jaws while he looked at the visitor.
-- Still so recoiling in her chair that her overpoised weight moved it, from time to time, a little on its wheels, and gave her the appearance of a phantom of fierce aspect gliding away from him, she interposed her left arm, bent at the elbow with the back of her hand towards her face, between herself and him, and looked at him in a fixed silence.
-- There was, as usual, a cessation of the small-talk in the Lodge as she passed through it; and a Collegian who had come in on Saturday night, received the intimation from the elbow of a more seasoned Collegian, 'Look out.
-- She lowered the window on her side, and, leaning back and resting her elbow on it negligently, fanned herself with a rich Spanish fan of black and gold.
-- Jeremiah Flintwinch, who had been gradually screwing himself towards her, and who was now very near her elbow without her knowing it, made a specially wry face of objection when she said these words, and moreover twitched his gaiters, as if such pretensions were equivalent to little barbs in his legs.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at it a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the matron, leaning her elbow on the table, and looking reflectively at the fire; 'I'm sure we have all on us a great deal to be grateful for!A great deal, if we did but know it.
-- With these words, the matron dropped into her chair, and, once more resting her elbow on the table, thought of her solitary fate.
-- All this time, Mr. Giles, with the white nightcap on, had been sitting on the steps of the chaise, supporting an elbow on each knee, and wiping his eyes with a blue cotton pocket-handkerchief dotted with white spots.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This line the individual at her elbow now marked for Carrie.
-- She had her elbow in an awkward position under her side.
-- Young Ames held Carrie's elbow as he helped her up the steps.
-- "I never saw anybody do better than you did then, Cad," he added ruefully, as he leaned an elbow on the table; "I thought you and I were going to get along fine those days."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I rouses up, and rests on my elbow and listens; pretty soon I hears it again.
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