他举起手臂试图挡开这一击。

He raised his arm to try to deflect the blow.

《牛津词典》

他的锁骨只是在举起手臂时才感觉疼痛。

His collar bone only hurt when he lifted his arm.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

他在开普敦向群众发表讲话，举起手臂，握紧拳头。

He addressed a crowd at Cape Town by raising his arm and clenching his fist.

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What this does then is it paralyzes you because your motor neurons-- You send the command to your arm to stand, to lift up.

结果就是它能使你瘫痪,因为你的运动神经元,你想要举起手臂

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And when his father raises his hand, he flinches.

他的父亲举起手臂，他就会闪躲。

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In the eighteenth century, a poet named Mark Akenside wrote a long poem called The Pleasures of the Imagination, and in this poem there is the line "The great creator raised his plastic arm."

在十八世纪，一位名叫马克？阿肯赛德的诗人写了一首长诗,叫《想象的快乐》,诗中有一句是,伟大的造物主举起了他的plastic的手臂“

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