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：
-- The little one leans its elbow upon Christ's knee, and with its cheek resting on its hand, gazes up at Him, pondering as children sometimes do ponder.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He raised himself on his elbow and looked up at Agamemnon.
-- Next in order the bronze point of his spear wounded Deucalion in the fore-arm where the sinews of the elbow are united, whereon he waited Achilles' onset with his arm hanging down and death staring him in the face.
-- Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike; with the one spear he struck Achilles' shield, but did not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift of the god, stayed the point; with the other spear he grazed the elbow of Achilles' right arm drawing dark blood, but the spear itself went by him and fixed itself in the ground, foiled of its bloody banquet.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The huge limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and the wrinkled skin of the elbow points rustled.
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：
-- The simple admirer of the war-horse instantly fell back to a low, gaunt, switch-tailed mare, that was unconsciously gleaning the faded herbage of the camp nigh by; where, leaning with one elbow on the blanket that concealed an apology for a saddle, he became a spectator of the departure, while a foal was quietly making its morning repast, on the opposite side of the same animal.
-- The young man at his elbow shuddered, but seemed to suppress his feelings in tenderness to his companion.
-- 'Beat it,' repeated the young Delaware at the elbow of the scout.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They turned the south angle and followed the left bank of the river, which was abandoned at the point where it formed an elbow towards the southwest.
-- To return to the Chimneys, it was enough to cross the plateau obliquely for the space of a mile, and then to descend to the elbow formed by the first detour of the Mercy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty little girl, who begged to be directed to a certain street at a considerable distance, and indeed in quite another quarter of the town.
-- 'Sit thee down, master, in the elbow chair,' said the old man, knocking his stick upon the brick floor, and trying to do so sharply.
-- cried Quilp, rattling on the table in a dexterous manner with his fist and elbow alternately, in a kind of tune, 'a woman, a beauty.
-- The puzzled dunce, who stood beside it to say his lesson out of book, looked no longer at the ceiling for forgotten words, but drew closer to the master's elbow and boldly cast his eye upon the page; the wag of the little troop squinted and made grimaces (at the smallest boy of course), holding no book before his face, and his approving audience knew no constraint in their delight.
-- It was whispered by those who should have known, that these were Sampson and his sister Sally; and to this day, it is said, they sometimes pass, on bad nights, in the same loathsome guise, close at the elbow of the shrinking passenger.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He removed his elbow from the desk, and began to make notes.
-- Nekhludoff sat on the arm of the seat, his elbow resting on the back, laughing.
-- The smiling Theodosia, who was sitting near Maslova, seeing Nekhludoff, pushed her with her elbow and pointed to Nekhludoff.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laughed when he saw me, and gave me an elbow to shake.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she prattled on, as she settled comfortably down, with one elbow in the rug, and her chin in her hand, to watch the kittens.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he pattered on, standing on the hilltop with his crutch under his elbow and one hand upon the side of the log-house quite the old John in voice, manner, and expression.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Leaning on his elbow against an angle of a costly mosaic table, he no longer saw me, he had forgotten my presence.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And still Hermione sat at the table, with her chin in her hand, her elbow on the table, her long white face pushed up, not attending to anything.
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