ground是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地， 地面， 土地； 场地， 场所； 理由， 根据，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：
-- 'You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years,' said Scrooge.
-- It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again.
-- 'Good Spirit,' he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it:' Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Par-is, where it was spilled.
-- Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook.
-- He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy ab-straction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way.
-- Then, as the darkness closed in, the daughter laid her head down on the hard ground close at the father's side, and watched him.
-- Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of busi-ness, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor had, in a rather significant manner.
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：
-- Now this was perhaps from arrogance; and the shadow on the ground kept itself so still 178 Andersen's Fairy Talesand quiet, that it might hear all that passed: it wished to know how it could get free, and work its way up, so as to be-come its own master.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his characteristic quickwittedness he caught the drift of each innuendo, divined whence it came, at whom and on what ground it was aimed, and that afforded him, as it always did, a certain satisfaction.
-- The princess had grown accustomed to this already with her other daughters, but now she felt that there was more ground for the prince's touchiness.
-- And the celebrated doctor expounded his plan of treatment with Soden waters, a remedy obviously prescribed primarily on the ground that they could do no harm.
-- After crossing the stream Vronsky had complete control of his mare, and began holding her in, intending to cross the great barrier behind Mahotin, and to try to overtake him in the clear ground of about five hundred yards that followed it.
-- Vronsky was aware of those eyes fastened upon him from all sides, but he saw nothing except the ears and neck of his own mare, the ground racing to meet him, and the back and white legs of Gladiator beating time swiftly before him, and keeping always the same distance ahead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead.
-- Hong Kong was the last English ground on which he would set foot; beyond, China, Japan, America offered to Fogg an almost certain refuge.
-- The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a large bar, a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers-by, who might partake of dried beef, oyster soup, biscuits, and cheese, without taking out their purses.
-- Now the ground was covered with a thin powdering of snow.
-- When the breeze came skimming the earth the sledge seemed to be lifted off the ground by its sails.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no matter what they thought, they all ground at learning the lists of names which enable a man to crawl through examinations and become an Educated Person, with a market value of five dollars an hour.
-- She had been summoned home to Dakota, perhaps for months, on the ground that her mother was unwell, and he had, or thought he had, to see her daily.
-- They rose swiftly, and he had but half-second glimpses of ground glass doors with the signs of mining companies, lumber companies, Central American railroad companies.
-- They prepared sera; the assistant in the Department of Bio-Physics was inventing electrified wire entanglements; Dr. Billy Smith, who six months before had been singing Studentenlieder at Luchow's, was working on poison gas to be used against all singers of Lieder; and to Martin was assigned the manufacture of lipovaccine, a suspension of finely ground typhoid and paratyphoid organisms in oil.
-- They ventured countryward, and lent their fleas to a species of ground squirrels which were plentiful about the village of Carib.
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