downward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 向下的ad. (also: downwards) 向下， 往下，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
-- cried Scrooge, calling downward to a 102 Sons and Loversboy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What I have come down to be, since I first saw you in this house!Iwas on my downward way then, but the dreary, dreary road Ihave traversed since!Weak indulgence has ruined me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They moved on without further speech, some early-withered leaves from the trees which hooded the road at this spot occasionally spinning downward across their path to the earth.
-- When the rain fell in a steady and ceaseless torrent the stream dashed downward in volumes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation; which he justi-fied to me, by the like practice of those two prudent insects, the bee and the spider.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had, however, an ample supply of gourds, and my uncle counted on finding water, and enough to fill them, as soon as we commenced our downward journey.
-- We are to the southeast, two hundred and fifty miles from the base of Sneffels, and, according to my preceding notes, I think we have gone sixteen leagues in a downward direction."
-- At a certain period, the earth consisted only of an elastic crust, liable to alternative upward and downward movements in virtue of the law of attraction.
-- Our downward journey is quite checked."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But with Mrs Bolton I only feel the downward plunge, down, horribly, among the sea-weeds and the pallid mon-sters of the very bottom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he should have missed so much, and at his time of life should look so far about him for any staff to bear him company upon his downward journey and cheer it, was a just regret.
-- Some of the earliest had even already resumed their journey; and, both on the level summit by the dark water near the convent, and on the downward way of yesterday's ascent, little moving figures of men and mules, reduced to miniatures by the immensity around, went with a clear tinkling of bells and a pleasant harmony of tongues.
-- It was quite a walk, by mysterious staircases and corridors, from Mrs General's apartment, hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it, and dungeon-like opposite tenements, their walls besmeared with a thousand downward stains and streaks, as if every crazy aperture in them had been weeping tears of rust into the Adriatic for centuries to Mr Dorrit's apartment: with a whole English house-front of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them, and a hushed murmur of the Grand Canal laving the doorways below, where his gondolas and gondoliers attended his pleasure, drowsily swinging in a little forest of piles.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Lau-rence seemed to suspect that something was brewing in her mind, for after taking several brisk turns about the room, he faced round on her, speaking so abruptly that Rasselas tumbled face downward on the floor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep.
-- There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the bottom of the ocean.
-- But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line.
-- And there with the strained craft steeply leaning over to it, by reason of the enormous downward drag from the lower mast-head, and every yard-arm on that side projecting like a crane over the waves; there, that blood-dripping head hung to the Pequod's waist like the giant Holofernes's from the girdle of Judith.
-- Straightway, then, Gabriel once more started to his feet, glaring upon the old man, and vehemently exclaimed, with downward pointed finger "Think, think of the blasphemer dead, and down there! beware of the blasphemer's end!"
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that they were so shy, so subtle, and so swift of foot, that it was the most difficult thing in the world to come at them; but I was not discouraged at this, not doubting but I might now and then shoot one, as it soon happened; for after I had found their haunts a little, I laid wait in this manner for them: I observed if they saw me in the valleys, though they were upon the rocks, they would run away, as in a terrible fright; but if they were feeding in the valleys, and I was upon the rocks, they took no notice of me; from whence I con-cluded that, by the position of their optics, their sight was so directed downward that they did not readily see objects that were above them; so afterwards I took this method - I always climbed the rocks first, to get above them, and then had frequently a fair mark.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once an individual has passed this faint line on the way downward he will get no glance from her.
-- The road downward has but few landings and level places.
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