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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ridge, a mile in length, which united Maunganamu to the Wahiti chain had a downward inclination.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a prostrate man face downward upon the ground, the head doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded and the body hunched together as if in the act of throwing a somersault.
-- At the same instant Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downward upon the ground.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First he sprang spear in hand upon Deiopites and wounded him on the shoulder with a downward blow; then he killed Thoon and Ennomus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreau lay face downward in a trampled space in a canebrake.
-- I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
-- The next few days were spent in getting the elephants to-gether, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giv-ing too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.
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：
-- 'It's like the choice ointment, From the head to the beard did go; Down Aaron's head, that downward went His garment's skirts unto.'
-- 'The waters in the woods, and on the great lakes, run downward until they lie like my hand,' said the Indian, stretching the limb horizontally before him, 'and then they run no more.'
-- It fell upon the white surface of the mountain, and was reflected downward upon a dark and mysterious-looking being that arose, unexpectedly, in their path.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a soothing, luxurious, drowsy way of travelling, to lie inside that slowly-moving mountain, listening to the tinkling of the horses' bells, the occasional smacking of the carter's whip, the smooth rolling of the great broad wheels, the rattle of the harness, the cheery good-nights of passing travellers jogging past on little short-stepped horses all made pleasantly indistinct by the thick awning, which seemed made for lazy listening under, till one fell asleep!The very going to sleep, still with an indistinct idea, as the head jogged to and fro upon the pillow, of moving onward with no trouble or fatigue, and hearing all these sounds like dreamy music, lulling to the senses and the slow waking up, and finding one's self staring out through the breezy curtain half-opened in the front, far up into the cold bright sky with its countless stars, and downward at the driver's lantern dancing on like its namesake Jack of the swamps and marshes, and sideways at the dark grim trees, and forward at the long bare road rising up, up, up, until it stopped abruptly at a sharp high ridge as if there were no more road, and all beyond was sky and the stopping at the inn to bait, and being helped out, and going into a room with fire and candles, and winking very much, and being agreeably reminded that the night was cold, and anxious for very comfort's sake to think it colder than it was! What a delicious journey was that journey in the waggon.
-- The old man limped on before, and warning her of the downward step, which he achieved himself with no small difficulty, led the way into his little cottage.
-- 'Look in,' said the old man, pointing downward with his finger.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My motives are that that woman--that the first step on her downward career----" Nekhludoff became angry because he could not find the proper expression.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You cannot know how his expression followed the turns of his story!Most of us hearers were in shadow, for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted, and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated.
-- Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill-lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then saw our image clearly reflected, drawn inversely, and above us appeared an identical group reflecting our movements and our actions; in a word, like us in every point, except that they walked with their heads downward and their feet in the air.
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：
-- He could not bear to meet the uncanny, downward look of Gerald's blue eyes.
-- She raised her clenched hand high, and brought it down, with a great downward stroke on to the face and on to the breast of Gerald.
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