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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's practically only a step from that to mayor and then to governor of the state, and if I find the career suits me, there's no reason why in ten or twelve years, say in 1918 or 1920, I shouldn't have the honor of representing the great state of Winnemac in Washington, D.
-- Gottlieb suddenly looked bewildered and took a step toward Martin's retreating back.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was positively going now for a 'rehearsal' of his project, and at every step his excitement grew more and more violent.
-- And there's pomatum, too, you see, she must have things; petticoats, starched ones, shoes, too, real jaunty ones to show off her foot when she has to step over a puddle.
-- Certainly, if he had to wait whole years for a suitable opportunity, he could not reckon on a more certain step towards the success of the plan than that which had just presented itself.
-- He was just taking a step towards the stairs when he heard fresh footsteps.
-- 'Ach, what a nuisance!I've got a house-warming party to-night; it's only a step from here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, as the three go onarm-in-arm, and I linger behind alone, I follow some of thoselooks, and wonder if my mother's step be really not so light as Ihave seen it, and if the gaiety of her beauty be really almostworried away.
-- Iwalked along the path towards the house, glancing at thewindows, and fearing at every step to see Mr. Murdstone or MissMurdstone lowering out of one of them.
-- As to me or my future, not a word was said, or a step taken.
-- The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sittingon the step of an empty shop at a street-corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other placeswhich had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with hiscarriage, dropped a horse-cloth.
-- Now I must caution you that if you abet himonce, you abet him for good and all; if you step in between himand me, now, you must step in, Miss Trotwood, for ever.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They arrived, the carriage turned, the step was let down, and Mr. Elton, spruce, black, and smiling, was with them instantly.
-- 'She had set out from Mrs. Goddard's half an hour ago she had been afraid it would rain she had been afraid it would pour down every moment but she thought she might get to Hartfield first she had hurried on as fast as possible; but then, as she was passing by the house where a young woman was making up a gown for her, she thought she would just step in and see how it went on; and though she did not seem to stay half a moment there, soon after she came out it began to rain, and she did not know what to do; so she ran on directly, as fast as she could, and took shelter at Ford's.
-- 'Well, sir,' cried Mr. Weston, 'as I took Miss Taylor away, it is incumbent on me to supply her place, if I can; and I will step to Mrs. Goddard in a moment, if you wish it.'
-- 'Pray take care, Mrs. Weston, there is a step at the turn-ing.
-- Miss Smith, the step at the turning.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The step echoed with a ring unusual in a church; it was the clink of spurs.
-- I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.
-- "Oh, Troy, if you like her best, why then did you step in here and injure my happiness?"
-- The horse bore him away, and the very step of the animal seemed significant of dogged despair.
-- Troy had turned towards the gig to remount, and whilst putting his foot on the step the woman passed behind him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even so, step by step the daylight decreases, and the cicerone's droning voice grows hollower as the traveler descends into the Catacombs.
-- probably because you will need them all to pull you out of the quagmire into which a false step has plunged you.
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