step是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 步； 台阶， 梯级； 步骤， 措施v. 踏， 走， 举步，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：
-- The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoner had got into a coach, and his daughter had followed him, when Mr. Lorry's feet were arrested on the step by his asking, miserably, for his shoemaking tools and the unfinished shoes.
-- The Marquis looked that way, and listened for the retreating step of his valet.
-- Now, I hear Somebody's step coming to the door.
-- Her husband's step was strong and prosperous among them; her father's firm and equal.
-- Lucie should be spared the pain of sepa-ration; and her father, always reluctant to turn his thoughts towards the dangerous ground of old, should come to the 345knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the Emperor, who happened just then to step out on the balcony; he rubbed his eyes, and put on his spec-tacles.
-- * * A.D. 1482-1513 While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
-- How well can she recall per-sons to our mind, of whom we have not thought for years; when suddenly they step forth 'every inch a man,' resem-bling the real personages, even to the finest features, and become the heroes or heroines of our world of dreams.
-- They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.
-- The Flea was the first to step forward.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the last step he stumbled, but barely touching the ice with his hand, with a violent effort recovered himself, and skated off, laughing.
-- But though Vronsky had not the least suspicion what the parents were saying, he felt on coming away from the Shtcherbatskys' that the secret spiritual bond which existed between him and Kitty had grown so much stronger that evening that some step must be taken.
-- But what step could and ought to be taken he could not imagine.
-- She went out with the rapid step which bore her rather fully-developed figure with such strange lightness.
-- Seizing the first pretext, she got up, and with her light, resolute step went for her album.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.
-- He never took one step too many, and always went to his destination by the shortest cut; he made no superfluous gestures, and was never seen to be moved or agitated.
-- It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable and complacent person, whom he had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board the Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he announced as his destination, and now turned up so unexpectedly on the Rangoon, was following Mr. Fogg's tracks step by step.
-- But just as the combatants were about to step from the train, the conductor hurried up, and shouted, "You can't get off, gentlemen!"
-- Separate himself from the man whom he had so persistently followed step by step!Leave him to wander about in this desert!Fix gazed attentively at Mr. Fogg, and, despite his suspicions and of the struggle which was going on within him, he lowered his eyes before that calm and frank look.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the stairway was the cumbersome step of Doc Vickerson.
-- The Doc's step was much livelier when he loomed into the office, a gray mass of a man with a gray mass of mustache, a form vast and unreal and undefined, like a cloud taking for the moment a likeness of humanity.
-- In the darkness, a step, the weary step of Max Gottlieb, and a hand on Martin's shoulder.
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