level是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水平， 水准， 等级v. 弄平， 铺平a. 水平的，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：
-- Just as Alice veiled her eyes in horror, under the impression that they were about to be swept within the vortex at the foot of the cataract, the canoe floated, stationary, at the side of a flat rock, that lay on a level with the water.
-- 'It may be a minute, or it may be an hour, afore the wily sarpents steal upon us, and it is quite in natur' for them to be lying within hearing at this very moment,' said Hawkeye; 'but come they will, and in such a fashion as will leave us nothing to hope!Chingachgook' he spoke in Delaware 'my brother, we have fought our last battle together, and the Maquas will triumph in the death of the sage man of the Mohicans, and of the pale face, whose eyes can make night as day, and level the clouds to the mists of the springs!'
-- When the summit was gained, they found themselves on a level spot, but thinly covered with trees, under one of which Magua had thrown his dark form, as if willing and ready to seek that rest which was so much needed by the whole party.
-- If any such there be, and he will follow me from sun to sun, through the windings of the forest, he shall see enough to teach him that he is a fool, and that the greatest of his folly lies in striving to rise to the level of One he can never equal, be it in goodness, or be it in power.'
-- The moon had already sunk into an immense pile of black clouds, which lay impending above the western horizon, when they is-sued from the low and devious water-course to rise again to the light and level of the sandy but wooded plain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.
-- But the bank was not without some obstacles: here, the flexible branches of the trees bent level with the current; there, creepers and thorns which they had to break down with their sticks.
-- The mountain, situated about six miles to the northwest, appeared to him to measure 3,500 feet above the level of the sea.
-- After leaving the region of bushes, the party, assisted by resting on each other's shoulders, climbed for about a hundred feet up a steep acclivity and reached a level place, with very few trees, where the soil appeared volcanic.
-- Then each settled himself as well as he could to sleep, and in that rocky hole, at a height of two thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea, through a peaceful night, the islanders enjoyed profound repose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The best work and the worst, the plainest and the richest, the stateliest and the least imposing both of Heaven's work and Man's all found one common level here, and told one common tale.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fourth class consisted of people who, according to Nekhludoff, were reckoned among the criminals only because they were morally above the average level of society.
-- The only aim of the courts is to preserve the existing state of things, and for this reason they persecute and kill all those who are above the common level and who wish to raise it as well as those who are below it."
-- "I cannot agree with the view that criminals are executed because they are above the level of the average.
-- For the most part they are the excrescence of society, just as perverted, though in a different manner, as are those criminal types whom you consider below the level of the average."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm!It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this time the schooner and her little consort were gliding pretty swiftly through the water; indeed, we had already fetched up level with the camp-fire.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we do NOT know them all if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
-- The 3rd of July we were at the opening of the Straits of Magellan, level with Cape Vierges.
-- I turn on taps and they fill, and the vessel sinks that had just been level with the surface."
-- When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part of her total capacity."
-- "My friends," I answered, making a sign for them to enter, "you are not in Canada, but on board the Nautilus, fifty yards below the level of the sea."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they really kept it to the level of trivial occurrence.
-- At Birkin's table was a girl with dark, soft, fluffy hair cut short in the artist fashion, hanging level and full almost like the Egyptian princess's.
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