他举起手臂试图挡开这一击。

He raised his arm to try to deflect the blow.

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他举起手臂护住脸以免被拳击中。

He raised his arm to protect his face from the blow.

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他举起手臂将树枝从他眼前挡开。

He raised his arm to fend branches from his eyes.

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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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What happened in that case is he has learned that the raising of a hand is a signal that he is about to be hit and so he responds to that signal.

在这个例子中，他知道,举起的手臂是他即将挨打的信号,因此他对这个信号作出了反应。

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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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