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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And on the ground beside her, when Joe picked her up, was a convict's leg-iron which had been filed asunder.
-- Similarly, he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets on the ground by his chair.
-- I arrived on the ground with a quarter of an hour to spare, attended by the Avenger,--if I may connect that expression with one who never attended on me if he could possibly help it.
-- I think Miss Pocket was conscious that the sight of me involved her in the danger of being goaded to madness, and perhaps tearing off her cap,--which was a very hideous one, in the nature of a muslin mop,--and strewing the ground with her hair,--which assuredly had never grown on her head.
-- "I am glad to have your approbation, gentlemen," said Mr. Waldengarver, with an air of dignity, in spite of his being ground against the wall at the time, and holding on by the seat of the chair.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two.
-- The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and be-laboured each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.
-- When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start, a feeling of dread came over her which she could not ex- plain, and that she might be able to find her path again, she filled her pockets with peas and lentils to sprinkle on the ground as she went along.
-- Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke.
-- The poor man thought he would try to better himself; so, pulling off his red coat, he became a gardener, and dug his ground well, and sowed turnips.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye.
-- His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, was less daunted than I could expect: he ordered me to return it into the scabbard, and cast it on the ground as gently as I could, about six feet from the end of my chain.
-- I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my hand-kerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect; and extended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side.
-- I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it: and the next day the waggoners arrived with it, but not in a very good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was dragged along for above half an Eng-lish mile; but, the ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I expected.
-- Then they measured my right thumb, and desired no more; for by a mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb is once round the wrist, and so on to the neck and the waist, and by the help of my old shirt, which I dis-played on the ground before them for a pattern, they fitted me exactly.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every ar-tery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
-- I gnashed my teeth and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul.
-- I covered it carefully with dry wood and leaves and placed wet branches upon it; and then, spreading my cloak, I lay on the ground and sank into sleep.
-- But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandemonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was built by slave labor, a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the greenincline of pasture land running down to the river; and it pleased Gerald greatly, for, even when new, it wore a look ofmellowed years.
-- When she departed from her father's house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful andflowing as a woman's body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set highfrom the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; adim, rich house, gracious but aloof.
-- Then followed three little boys, each of whom died before he had learnedto walk three little boys who now lay under the twisted cedars in the burying ground a hundred yards from the house,beneath three stones, each bearing the name of "Gerald O'Hara, Jr." From the day when Ellen first came to Tara, the place had been transformed.
-- Then, wheels ground sharply on the graveled driveway, and the soft murmur of Ellen's voice dismissing thecoachman floated into the room.
-- What a young miss could do and what she couldnot do were as different as black and white in Mammy's mind; there was no middle ground of deportment between.
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