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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there were dangers in this route; the last part of it was within pistol shot of natives posted on the lower slopes.
-- The ascending ridge belonged not to Maunganamu, but to the mountain system of the eastern side of Lake Taupo, so that they had not only pistol shots, but hand-to-hand fighting to fear.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shrank back into the darkest corner, and cocked the pistol in my pocket, deter-mined not to discover myself until I had an opportunity of seeing something of the stranger.
-- I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmer-ing head, but it was useless to press the trigger.
-- Pistol in hand, we all three rushed into the room.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now listen and learn; in the first place buy good powder, not damp (they say it mustn't be at all damp, but very dry), some fine kind it is you must ask for PISTOL powder, not the stuff they load cannons with.
-- The bullet last and the powder first, not the other way, or the pistol won't shoot.
-- I wish you to buy a pistol and practise every day, and you must learn to hit a mark for CERTAIN; will you?'
-- Ha, ha, ha!I know how to load a pistol now; do you know how to load a pistol, Keller?
-- First, you have to buy the powder, you know; it mustn't be wet, and it mustn't be that coarse stuff that they load cannons with it must be pistol powder.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come in," said the bearded man in an undertone, standing back and facing the unbolted doors with his pistol behind him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw the pink tongue of Mont-gomery's pistol lick out once, close to the ground.
-- I dropped the whip and snatched at the pistol in my pocket; for I meant to kill this brute, the most formidable of any left now upon the is-land, at the first excuse.
-- I carried my pistol in my hand, my whip thrust with the hatchets in the sling of my arm.
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：
-- He then seated himself in the cen-ter of the cavern, grasping his remaining pistol with a hand convulsively clenched, while his contracted and frowning eye announced the sullen desperation of his purpose.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Seignior,' said I, with as much Spanish as I could make up, 'we will talk afterwards, but we must fight now: if you have any strength left, take this pistol and sword, and lay about you.'
-- I kept my piece in my hand still without firing, being willing to keep my charge ready, because I had given the Spaniard my pistol and sword: so I called to Friday, and bade him run up to the tree from whence we first fired, and fetch the arms which lay there that had been discharged, which he did with great swiftness; and then giving him my musket, I sat down myself to load all the rest again, and bade them come to me when they wanted.
-- The Spaniard, who was as bold and brave as could be imagined, though weak, had fought the Indian a good while, and had cut two great wounds on his head; but the savage being a stout, lusty fellow, closing in with him, had thrown him down, being faint, and was wringing my sword out of his hand; when the Spaniard, though undermost, wisely quitting the sword, drew the pistol from his girdle, shot the savage through the body, and killed him upon the spot, before I, who was run-ning to help him, could come near him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he did so there was a pistol shot.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying: 'I'd LIKE to!And I orter, too a mean skunk!'
-- He was standing perfectly still in the street, and had a pistol raised in his right hand not aiming it, but holding it out with the barrel tilted up towards the sky.
-- Boggs and the men turned round to see who called him, and when they see the pistol the men jumped to one side, and the pistol-barrel come down slow and steady to a level both barrels cocked.
-- Colonel Sherburn he tossed his pistol on to the ground, and turned around on his heels and walked off.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he ran the master raised his arm and a pistol shot rang in the air.
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