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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de Beauseant would give him her attention; but suddenly she sprang forward, rushed to a window in the gallery, and watched M. d'Ajuda step into his carriage; she listened to the order that he gave, and heard the Swiss repeat it to the coachman: "To M. de Rochefide's house."
-- This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your affectionate brother, R. Walton FrankensteinLetter 2To Mrs. Saville, England Archangel, 28th March, 17 How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow!Yet a second step is taken towards my en-terprise.
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
-- You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was min-gled with accounts of domestic occurrences.
-- I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philoso-pher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pre-tence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.
-- The snows descended on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value,Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the "best damn valet on the Coast," wasthe first step upward toward his heart's desire, Gerald wanted to be a slave owner and a landed gentleman.
-- Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her cr脙陋pe veilfluttering almost to her heels.
-- Doan step down in dat mud," he orderedseverely, as Scarlett gathered up her skirts preparatory to descending.
-- Oh, Ashley, I love you so much I'd walk every step of the way to Virginia just to be near you!AndI'd cook for you and polish your boots and groom your horse Ashley, say you love me!I'll live on it for the rest ofmy life!"
-- Sherman inexorably advanced, step by step, swinging his army about them in a wide curve, forcing anotherretreat to defend the railroad at their back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XThe felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.
-- While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a trial or so: informing me that he could give me a front place for half a crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and presently offering him at the reduced price of eighteen-pence.
-- Mr. Pocket did not object to this arrangement, but urged that before any step could possibly be taken in it, it must be submitted to my guardian.
-- Let me start from my bed as I would, with the terror fresh upon me that he was discovered; let me sit listening, as I would with dread, for Herbert's returning step at night, lest it should be fleeter than ordinary, and winged with evil news,--for all that, and much more to like purpose, the round of things went on.
-- As she withdrew her hands from it, she fell back a step or two, nervously muttering some excuse.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When any young man came within a hun-dred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free; which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again: but when any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy put her into a cage, and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
-- On reaching the entrance to the 133forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.
-- She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.
-- At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took.
-- But the dwarf was enraged at his behaviour, and laid a fairy spell of ill-luck upon him; so that as he rode on the mountain pass became narrower and narrower, and at last the way was so straitened that he could not go to step for-ward: and when he thought to have turned his horse round and go back the way he came, he heard a loud laugh ringing round him, and found that the path was closed behind him, so that he was shut in all round.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had his majesty's permission to step over this wall; and, the space being so wide between that and the palace, I could easily view it on every side.
-- The emperor con-cluded me to be drowned, and that the enemy's fleet was approaching in a hostile manner: but he was soon eased of his fears; for the channel growing shallower every step I made, I came in a short time within hearing, and hold-ing up the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I cried in a loud voice, 'Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!'
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