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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, 102 Gulliver's Travelsapproaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.
-- He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground with the palm upward, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness.
-- However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but of half an hour: for the horse went about forty feet at every step and trotted so high, that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because, up to this time, he seemed to dote upon her,' said Childers, taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk.
-- He could not make up his mind how to do that, or what the consequences of the step might be.
-- Nothing was further from his thoughts than the curious old woman he had encountered on his previous visit to the same house, when he heard a step behind him that he knew, and turning, saw her in Rachael's company.
-- If you'll step out on the stairs, Blackpool, I'll mention it.
-- Stephen sat upon the step of a door, leaned against a wall under an archway, strolled up and down, listened for the church clock, stopped and watched children playing in the street.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now, Harry," cried the Professor, in an enthusiastic tone of voice, "we are truly about to take our first step into the Interior of the Earth; never before visited by man since the first creation of the world.
-- Every step I took confirmed me in my belief, and I began already to build castles in the air in relation to my marriage with my pretty little cousin.
-- It so happened that when I first took an imprudent step in the wrong direction, I did not perceive the absence of the all-important stream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, I ask you,' said Mr Meagles in the blandest confidence, falling back a step himself, and handing his daughter a step forward to illustrate his question: 'I ask you simply, as between man and man, you know, DID you ever hear of such damned nonsense as putting Pet in quarantine?'
-- A shuffling step was soon heard on the stone floor of the hall, and the door was opened by an old man, bent and dried, but with keen eyes.
-- Step in.'
-- If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward.
-- Her original timidity had grown with this concealment, and her light step and her little figure shunned the thronged streets while they passed along them.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irre-sistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
-- Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
-- The instant Laurie's step was heard in the hall, Meg fled into the study, and Mrs. March received the cul-prit alone.
-- Meg rose as she spoke, and was just going to rehearse the dignified exit, when a step in the hall made her fly into her seat and begin to sew as fast as if her life depended on fin-ishing that particular seam in a given time.
-- Step into the gar-den, Scott, while I look up Mrs. Brooke,' said John, alarmed at the silence and solitude.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
-- For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.
-- Well then, just step forward there, and take a peep over the weather-bow, and then back to me and tell me what ye see there."
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