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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I thought I spat on the ground and left him in disgust.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.
-- All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.'
-- Even thus did their tribes pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses.
-- Then they poured wine from the mixing-bowl into the cups, and prayed to the everlasting gods, saying, Trojans and Achae-ans among one another, 'Jove, most great and glorious, and ye other everlasting gods, grant that the brains of them who shall first sin against their oaths of them and their chil-dren may be shed upon the ground even as this wine, and let their wives become the slaves of strangers.'
-- I am Saturn's eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also be-cause I am your wife, and you are king over the gods.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle.
-- He saw the ground suddenly close to his face.
-- Mr. Marvel, released, suddenly dropped to the ground and made an attempt to crawl behind the legs of the fighting men.
-- I lay awake thinking weak aimless stuff, going over the experiment over and over again, or dreaming feverishly of things growing misty and vanishing about me, until everything, the ground I stood on, vanished, and so I came to that sickly falling nightmare one gets.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed.
-- Presently the ground gave rich and oozy under my feet; but I was desperate and went headlong into it, struggled through kneedeep, and so came to a winding path among tall canes.
-- I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of exis-tence by evolution sooner or later.
-- It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion.
-- Then, slinking out of the canebrake, stooping near the ground and trying to join the dust-throwing circle be-hind Moreau's back, came the Leopard-man.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Faugh!Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!'
-- When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.
-- But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.
-- 'I will go to the west wall,' Kaa whispered, 'and come down swiftly with the slope of the ground in my favor.
-- An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tus-socks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
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：
-- There we fought the Alligewi, till the ground was red with their blood.
-- One would think such a horse as that might get over a good deal of ground atwixt sun-up and sun-down.'
-- Filling it with water, he retired a short distance, to a place where the ground was more firm and dry; here he coolly seated himself, and after taking a long, and, apparently, a grateful draught, he com-menced a very strict examination of the fragments of food left by the Hurons, which had hung in a wallet on his arm.
-- 'Uncas was bold enough to say, that the beasts ridden by the gentle ones,' continued Hawkeye, glancing his eyes, not without curious interest, on the fillies of the ladies, 'planted the legs of one side on the ground at the same time, which is contrary to the movements of all trotting four-footed animals of my knowledge, except the bear.
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