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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I advanced a step or two, looking steadfastly into his eyes.
-- I heard a step outside, and incontinently flung open the door and found Mont-gomery within a yard of it.
-- It would be impossible to detail every step of the laps-ing of these monsters, to tell how, day by day, the human semblance left them; how they gave up bandagings and wrappings, abandoned at last every stitch of clothing; how the hair began to spread over the exposed limbs; how their foreheads fell away and their faces projected; how the quasi-human intimacy I had permitted myself with some of them in the first month of my loneliness became a shuddering horror to recall.
-- I advanced a step farther, stopped, and pulled out my re-volver.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Bagheera took one stiff step forward with them.
-- If Shere Khan had made a false step with his lame paw up in the jungles by the Waingunga, Mowgli would have heard him in those long, still mornings.
-- They dare not move, and if you come a step nearer I strike.'
-- 'We're taught to obey the man at our head: step off when he says so, and step in when he says so.
-- Next time I have to go over a man lying down I shall step on him hard.'
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：
-- Left by their guide, the travelers remained a few minutes in helpless ignorance, afraid even to move along the broken rocks, lest a false step should precipitate them down some one of the many deep and roaring caverns, into which the water seemed to tumble, on every side of them.
-- If you had daylight, it would be worth the trouble to step up on the height of this rock, and look at the perversity of the water.
-- With a noiseless step he crossed the rock, and dropped into the troubled stream.
-- With a light step and lighter heart, he re-turned to the center of the cave, and took the place he had left, where he could command a view of the opening next the river.
-- To be delivered into the hands of Sir Wil-liam Johnson was far preferable to being led into the wilds of Canada; but in order to effect even the former, it would be necessary to traverse the forest for many weary leagues, each step of which was carrying him further from the scene of the war, and, consequently, from the post, not only of honor, but of duty.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She fled, swift of foot and desperate, but he gained on her step by step, till she felt his hot breath on her neck; and still she fled silently, and silently he pursued, and when at last he seized her was it terror that thrilled her heart or was it ecstasy?
-- But there was a man ready to step into Abraham's shoes, and Abraham was forgotten.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And certainly, pedestrians, hindered at each step by bushes, caught by creepers, barred by trunks of trees, did not shine beside those supple animals, who, bounding from branch to branch, were hindered by nothing on their course.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her.
-- She had gone singing through the dim rooms, and moving with gay and lightsome step among their dusty treasures, making them older by her young life, and sterner and more grim by her gay and cheerful presence.
-- This important step secured, with the assistance of a man of law whom he brought with him for the purpose, the dwarf proceeded to establish himself and his coadjutor in the house, as an assertion of his claim against all comers; and then set about making his quarters comfortable, after his own fashion.
-- And here, when he had been thinking of all kinds of graceful and insinuating approaches, and meditating on the fearful retaliation which was slowly working against Sophy Wackles here were Nell, the old man, and all the money gone, melted away, decamped he knew not whither, as if with a fore-knowledge of the scheme and a resolution to defeat it in the very outset, before a step was taken.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at her feet and endeavored to step as lightly as possible.
-- There were twenty-six steps, but he made one short step and reached the chair with the twenty-seventh.
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