pistol是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 手枪，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer imple-ments, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch could not without horror contemplate the idea of a pistol aimed at himself, and never made use of any weapon in his life.
-- Suppose I call him out," Alexey Alexandrovitch went on to himself, and vividly picturing the night he would spend after the challenge, and the pistol aimed at him, he shuddered, and knew that he never would do it--"suppose I call him out.
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：
-- Dounia started, quickly cocked the pistol and again raised it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman who, after two hours of lamentations and reproaches, falls into a dead swoon and requires salts.
-- I will learn to fence and have some pistol practice, and kill that Maxime of hers!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
-- I rushed towards the window, and drawing a pistol from my bosom, fired; but he eluded me, leaped from his station, and running with the swiftness of lightning, plunged into the lake.
-- 242 Frankenstein The report of the pistol brought a crowd into the room.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Charles' sash and pistol belt hung there too, with his revolver inthe holster.
-- Between the saber and the pistol was a daguerreotype of Charles himself, very stiff and proud in his grayuniform, his great brown eyes shining out of the frame and a shy smile on his lips.
-- He stood with military straightness in his old uniform, his pistol in its worn holster, his battered scabbard smartlyslapping his high boots, his tarnished spurs dully gleaming Major Ashley Wilkes, C.S.A.
-- "Oh, all right," said Scarlett and, after she had lighted Rhett's careful way down the steps, she went back andunhooked the sword and pistol belts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was asleep, and quietly too, though he had a pistol lying on the pillow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is my substitute for pistol and ball.
-- roared the captain, now menacing them with a pistol in each hand, just brought to him by the steward.
-- With one foot on each prow of the yoked war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to scorn; assuring him that if the pistol so much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and foam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus attired, he gave his hand to the robber, who, merely pausing to show him with a menacing gesture that he had that same pistol in a side-pocket of his great-coat, clasped it firmly in his, and, exchanging a farewell with Nancy, led him away.
-- 'Yes; he's my boy,' replied Sikes, looking hard at Oliver, and putting his hand abstractedly into the pocket where the pistol was.
-- murmured Sikes, trembling with rage, and drawing the pistol from his pocket; 'Get up, or I'll strew your brains upon the grass.'
-- He fired his own pistol after the men, who were already retreating; and dragged the boy up.
-- cried Sikes, laying the boy in a dry ditch at his feet, and drawing a pistol from his pocket.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two muskets I loaded with a brace of slugs each, and four or five smaller bullets, about the size of pistol bullets; and the fowling- piece I load-ed with near a handful of swan-shot of the largest size; I also loaded my pistols with about four bullets each; and, in this posture, well provided with ammunition for a second and third charge, I prepared myself for my expedition.
-- In this fit of fury I divided the arms which I had charged, as before, between us; I gave Friday one pistol to stick in his girdle, and three guns upon his shoulder, and I took one pistol and the other three guns myself; and in this posture we marched out.
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