staircase是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 楼梯，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three climbed up the long staircase until they reached the fourth floor where Madame Terentieff lived.
-- The place was dark and gloomy-looking; the walls of the stone staircase were painted a dull red.
-- The staircase led to the first and second corridors of the hotel, along which lay the guests' bedrooms.
-- It was the first time they had met since the encounter on the staircase at the hotel.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To get to the door it was necessary to pass through the hall, and before doing so she paused on the bottom of the staircase which descended into one corner, to take a last look at the gathering.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was just in the doorway of his room when a strange sound from the staircase below reached his ears; it might have been made by two men coming up in list slippers.
-- Rastignac was impressed with a sense of the formidable power of the lackey who can accuse or condemn his masters by a word; he coolly opened the door by which the man had just entered the ante-chamber, meaning, no doubt, to show these insolent flunkeys that he was familiar with the house; but he found that he had thoughtlessly precipitated himself into a small room full of dressers, where lamps were standing, and hot-water pipes, on which towels were being dried; a dark passage and a back staircase lay beyond it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated.
-- When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine.
-- Then, the two nurses left the room, and had a lively scuffle on the staircase with a dissipated page who had waited at dinner, and who had clearly lost half his buttons at the gaming-table.
-- The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers's room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years.
-- So, up a dark brown staircase into a series of three dark brown rooms on the first floor.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she roved about by herself, and looked at all the rooms and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which there was a narrow staircase ending with a little door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently, a light went up-stairs after her, passing first the fanlight of the door, and afterwards the two staircase windows, on its way up.
-- Then she arose, put on a loose robe, and went out of her room in the dark, and up the staircase to her brother's room.
-- The same evening, Mrs. Sparsit, in her chamber window, resting from her packing operations, looked towards her great staircase and saw Louisa still descending.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the whole of two days, the sixth and seventh of July, we followed the extraordinary spiral staircase of the fissure, penetrating two leagues farther into the crust of the earth, which put us five leagues below the level of the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It received such light as it got through a grating of iron bars fashioned like a pretty large window, by means of which it could be always inspected from the gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
-- It came languishing down a square funnel that blinded a window in the staircase wall, through which the sky was never seen nor anything else.
-- It was not on the same floor, for it was a room at the side of the house, which was approached by a steep descent of a few odd steps, diverging from the main staircase nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam's door.
-- The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams.
-- Consequently when he came up the staircase to bed, candle in hand, he came full upon her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Noah's shouts were responded to, by a loud scream from Charlotte, and a louder from Mrs. Sowerberry; the former of whom rushed into the kitchen by a side-door, while the latter paused on the staircase till she was quite certain that it was consistent with the preservation of human life, to come further down.
-- This seemed to be some watchword or signal that all was right; for the light of a feeble candle gleamed on the wall at the remote end of the passage; and a man's face peeped out, from where a balustrade of the old kitchen staircase had been broken away.
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