clap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 拍手， 拍， 轻拍n. 拍(手) ， 掌声， 霹雳声，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：
-- Holding his watch close to the insect, Paganel saw distinctly that the time was 10 P. M.On rejoining the Major and his three sailors, Glenarvan warned them of the approaching storm, and advised them to secure themselves in their beds of branches as firmly as possible, for there was no doubt that after the first clap of thunder the wind would become unchained, and the OMBU would be violently shaken.
-- CHAPTER XVII THE PLOT UNVEILEDTHE revelation of Tom Ayrton's name was like a clap of thunder.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fell on her like a clap of thunder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let's have the shutters up,' cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands,' before a man can say Jack Robinson.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the Horse-man returning from his foray into Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to get up behind him; how they galloped over bush and brake, over hill and swamp, until they reached the bridge; when the Horseman suddenly turned into a skel-eton, threw old Brouwer into the brook, and sprang away over the tree-tops with a clap of thunder.
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：
-- The fascination of a charming, virtuous, highly educated woman might make his way easier, might do wonders in attracting people to him, throwing an aureole round him, and now everything was in ruins!This sudden horrible rupture affected him like a clap of thunder; it was like a hideous joke, an absurdity.
-- Now, Kolya, your hands on your hips, make haste, and you, Lida, keep turning the other way, and Polenka and I will sing and clap our hands!
-- There was a clap of thunder, and the rain came down like a waterfall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Peggotty, with a clap of his hands.
-- Her cousin being, as it appears, in good work, and well to do,thanked me in a very manly sort of manner for this (conductinghimself altogether, I must say, in a way that gives me a highopinion of him), and went and took as comfortable a little house asyou or I could wish to clap eyes on.
-- My aunt with one clap of herhands, and one look through her spectacles, immediately went intohysterics, for the first and only time in all my knowledge of her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Arabian Night, certainly,' thought Mr Swiveller; 'they always clap their hands instead of ringing the bell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried my sister, with a clap of her hands and a scream together,--which was her next stage.
-- He smoked his pipe as we went along, and sometimes stopped to clap me on the shoulder.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave the patient a friendly clap on the shoulder again, as if he really felt that he was a very good fellow indeed, and worthy of all commendation for having broken his leg in a manner interesting to science.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt as if she had solid ground under her feet again, and when Mr. Bhaer paused, outtalked but not one whit con-vinced, Jo wanted to clap her hands and thank him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clap eye on Captain Ahab, young man, and thou wilt find that he has only one leg."
-- Hold your hat in one hand, and clap t'other a'top of your heart, when I'm giving my orders, cook.
-- Another has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth.
-- "Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, intermeddling, monopolising, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the next day coffins to clap them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those same coffins?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time it happened, after I had laid my scheme for the setting up my tent, and making the cave, that a storm of rain falling from a thick, dark cloud, a sud-den flash of lightning happened, and after that a great clap of thunder, as is naturally the effect of it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead.
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