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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And this is a consolation to me!This does not hurt me, but is a positive con-so-la-tion, ho-nou-red sir,' he called out, shaken to and fro by his hair and even once striking the ground with his forehead.
-- The blow fell; the mare staggered, sank back, tried to pull, but the bar fell again with a swinging blow on her back and she fell on the ground like a log.
-- He laid the axe on the ground near the dead body and felt at once in her pocket (trying to avoid the streaming body) the same right-hand pocket from which she had taken the key on his last visit.
-- He angrily clenched and ground his teeth.
-- This familiar 'what do you want' seemed to cut the ground from the feet of the pompous gentleman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she wasmortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my motherwas 'a wax doll.'
-- But when I awoke at intervals,the ground outside the window was not the playground of SalemHouse, and the sound in my ears was not the sound of Mr. Creaklegiving it to Traddles, but was the sound of the coachman touchingup the horses.
-- But seeing me, shecalled me her dear Davy, her own boy!and coming half across theroom to meet me, kneeled down upon the ground and kissed me,and laid my head down on her bosom near the little creature thatwas nestling there, and put its hands up to my lips.
-- This she was doing when Peggotty came running in, and bounceddown on the ground beside us, and went mad about us both for aquarter of an hour.
-- When the pony-chaise stopped at the door, and my eyes wereintent upon the house, I saw a cadaverous face appear at a smallwindow on the ground floor (in a little round tower that formedone side of the house), and quickly disappear.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father never went beyond the shrubbery, where two divisions of the ground sufficed him for his long walk, or his short, as the year varied; and since Mrs. Weston's marriage her ex-ercise had been too much confined.
-- His appearance was very neat, and he looked like a sensible young man, but his person had no other advantage; and when he came to be contrasted with gentlemen, she thought he must lose all the ground he had gained in Harriet's inclination.
-- She had not time to know how Mr. Elton took the re-proof, so rapidly did another subject succeed; for Mr. John Knightley now came into the room from examining the weather, and opened on them all with the information of the ground being covered with snow, and of its still snow-ing fast, with a strong drifting wind; concluding with these words to Mr. Woodhouse: 'This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter en-gagements, sir.
-- These were very cheering thoughts; and the sight of a great deal of snow on the ground did her further service, for any thing was welcome that might justify their all three be-ing quite asunder at present.
-- The ground covered with snow, and the atmosphere in that unsettled state between frost and thaw, which is of all others the most unfriendly for exercise, every morning beginning in rain or snow, and every evening setting in to freeze, she was for many days a most honourable prisoner.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
-- Detached hurdles thatched with straw were stuck into the ground at various scattered points, amid and under which the whitish forms of his meek ewes moved and rustled.
-- On the higher levels the dead and dry carcasses of leaves tapped the ground as they bowled along helter-skelter upon the shoulders of the wind, and little birds in the hedges were rustling their feathers and tucking themselves in comfortably for the night, retaining their places if Oak kept moving, but flying away if he stopped to look at them.
-- On the ground the groups of villagers were still occupied in doing all they could to keep down the conflagration, which was not much.
-- During conversations each subjected his sapling to great varieties of usage bending it round his back, forming an arch of it between his two hands, overweighting it on the ground till it reached nearly a semicircle; or perhaps it was hastily tucked under the arm whilst the sample-bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events perfectly well known to half-a-dozen acute town-bred fowls which had as usual crept into the building unobserved, and waited the fulfilment of their anticipations with a high-stretched neck and oblique eye.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
-- Veuve Vauquer availed herself of the services of M. Goriot's coiffeur, and went to some expense over her toilette, expense justifiable on the ground that she owed it to herself and her establishment to pay some attention to appearances when such highly-respectable persons honored her house with their presence.
-- So far, Eugene had only been in the ballroom on the ground floor of the Hotel Beauseant; the fete had followed so closely on the invitation, that he had not had time to call on his cousin, and had therefore never seen Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
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