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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
-- Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa, peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!
-- There was no rope-dancing for me; I danced on the bare ground and was larruped with the rope.'
-- You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.
-- From that ground alone, I know you will view and consider what I am going to communicate.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT CHAPTER 21 UNDER THE OCEAN CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND CHAPTER 23 ALONE CHAPTER 24 LOST!
-- ARNE SAKNUSSEMM My uncle leaped three feet from the ground with joy.
-- I could not help smiling to see him look so big on his little horse; his long legs now and then touching the ground made him look like a six-footed centaur.
-- The soil was again affected by the neighborhood of the mountains, whose granite peered out of the ground like tops of an old oak.
-- Some banks of basalt, torn from their fastenings by the fury of the waves, lay scattered on the ground like the ruins of an ancient temple--ruins eternally young, over which the storms of ages swept without producing any perceptible effect!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clifford's rooms were on the ground floor, of course.
-- In the wood everything was motionless, the old leaves on the ground keeping the frost on their underside.
-- The ground was fairly free of undergrowth, the anemones sprinkled, there was a bush or two, elder, or guelder-rose, and a purplish tangle of bramble: the old russet of bracken almost vanished under green anemone ruffs.
-- At last the keeper heaved the back of the chair off the ground and, with an instanta-neous push of his foot, tried to loosen the wheels.
-- Clinging, caressing, creeping into you in every way: but if you forced her to the sex itself, she just ground her teeth and sent out hate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By corresponding degrees she sank into a chair, then upon her knees, then upon the ground beside the bed, drawing the coverlet with her, half to hide her shamed head and wet hair in it, and half, as it seemed, to embrace it, rather than have nothing to take to her repentant breast.
-- She then put on the spectacles and read certain passages aloud from a book sternly, fiercely, wrathfully praying that her enemies (she made them by her tone and manner expressly hers) might be put to the edge of the sword, consumed by fire, smitten by plagues and leprosy, that their bones might be ground to dust, and that they might be utterly exterminated.
-- That he has no ground to go upon?'
-- Arthur, you please to hear that you have no right to mistrust your father, and have no ground to go upon.'
-- Indeed the dancing-master was so proud of it, and so wishful to display it before he left to a few select friends among the collegians, that at six o'clock on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard the college-rooms being of too confined proportions for the purpose in which so much ground was covered, and the steps were so conscientiously executed, that the dancing-master, having to play the kit besides, was thoroughly blown.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cluster of grave yet cheerful pansies on a deeper purple ground was pronounced very appropriate and pret-ty, and beth worked away early and late, with occasional lifts over hard parts.
-- The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them.
-- She felt as if she had solid ground under her feet again, and when Mr. Bhaer paused, outtalked but not one whit con-vinced, Jo wanted to clap her hands and thank him.
-- And the despairing lover cast his hat upon the ground with a gesture that would have seemed comical, if his face had not been so tragic.
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