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：
-- See,' he said, pointing through the trees toward a spot where a little basin of water reflected the stars from its placid bosom, 'here is the 'bloody pond'; and I am on ground that I have not only often trav-eled, but over which I have fou't the enemy, from the rising to the setting sun.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heinemann, 1913.芒聭路 This was described in Christie's catalogue as follows: "A nude woman, a native of the Society Islands, is lying on the ground beside a brook.
-- His cordial agreement with all I said cut the ground from under my feet.
-- You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."
-- I pressed her, angrily perhaps, but she looked down on the ground and began to cry.
-- But he made her promise that when she had buried him did I tell you that I dug his grave with my own hands, for none of the natives would approach the infected house, and we buried him, she and I, sewn up in three pareos joined together, under the mango-tree he made her promise that she would set fire to the house and not leave it till it was burned to the ground and not a stick remained."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer only feared one thing; it was that the balloon, held to the ground and dashed about by the wind, would be torn into shreds.
-- The solid ground ended here.
-- However, Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal, that the ground rose, and he declared that it was joined by a long slope to a hill, whose massive front he thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the mist.
-- On the left, above the promontory, this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point.
-- Large flat stones were placed on the ground at the opening of the narrow passage which had been kept.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He furthermore took occasion to apologize for any negligence that might be perceptible in his dress, on the ground that last night he had had 'the sun very strong in his eyes'; by which expression he was understood to convey to his hearers in the most delicate manner possible, the information that he had been extremely drunk.
-- The second perusal was to all appearance as unsatisfactory as the first, and plunged him into a profound reverie from which he awakened to another assault upon his nails and a long stare at the child, who with her eyes turned towards the ground awaited his further pleasure.
-- The success of this manoeuvre tickled Mr Quilp beyond description, and he laughed and stamped upon the ground as at a most irresistible jest.
-- If he were to die if sudden illness had happened to him, and he were never to come home again, alive if, one night, he should come home, and kiss and bless her as usual, and after she had gone to bed and had fallen asleep and was perhaps dreaming pleasantly, and smiling in her sleep, he should kill himself and his blood come creeping, creeping, on the ground to her own bed-room door!These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before.
-- At last they reached the passage on the ground floor, where the snoring of Mr Quilp and his legal friend sounded more terrible in their ears than the roars of lions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I would ask that it be read," sternly said the prosecutor without looking at the justiciary, sidewise raising himself, and impressing by the tone of his voice that it was his right to demand it, that he would insist on it, and that a refusal would be ground for appeal.
-- She sat down on the ground and began to sob aloud.
-- Wherever there was a patch of unpaved ground the green grass burst forth; the lindens were covered with green nap; the fowl-cherry and poplar unfolded their long, fragrant leaves.
-- "No matter, it is a ground of appeal.
-- The ground for refusing to permit him to continue his address was stated to be irrelevancy to the question at issue.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it.
-- The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a little cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke.
-- I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moonlit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness, even anger at the folly of leaving the machine having leaked away with my strength.
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