base是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 基础， 底部； 根据地v. (on) 把…基于，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spot had been consecrated to this ancient diversion from time immemorial, the old stocks conveniently forming a base facing the boundary of the churchyard, in front of which the ground was trodden hard and bare as a pavement by the players.
-- These gradually converged upon the base of the hill, and the flocks became individually visible, climbing the serpentine ways which led to the top.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought also of my father and surviving brother; should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them?
-- To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can be-fall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a con-dition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
-- You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.
-- 'I have seen,' he said, 'the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash 188 Frankensteinwith fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, in response to the needs of war, Atlanta had become amanufacturing center, a hospital base and one of the South's chief depots for the collecting of food and supplies for thearmies in the field.
-- At first shetried to stifle the thoughts, but the hard self-honesty that lay at the base of her nature would not permit it And so, whilethe bazaar went on, while she and Melanie waited on the customers who came to their booth, her mind was busilyworking, trying to justify herself to herself a task which she seldom found difficult.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each of these exclamations was a shriek; and I must remark of my sister, what is equally true of all the violent women I have ever seen, that passion was no excuse for her, because it is undeniable that instead of lapsing into passion, she consciously and deliberately took extraordinary pains to force herself into it, and became blindly furious by regular stages; "what was the name he gave me before the base man who swore to defend me?
-- And I should be false and base if I did not tell you, whether it is acceptable to you or no, and whether you are inclined to give credence to it or no, that you deeply wrong both Mr. Matthew Pocket and his son Herbert, if you suppose them to be otherwise than generous, upright, open, and incapable of anything designing or mean."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the extreme sharpness of his look out for base coin, Mr. Kidderminster, as at present situated, never saw anything but money; so Sissy passed him unrecognised, and they went in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were skirting the enormous base of the mighty volcano.
-- Geological science considers this primitive soil as the base of the mineral crust, and it has recognized that it is composed of three different strata or layers, all resting on the immovable rock known as granite.
-- We are to the southeast, two hundred and fifty miles from the base of Sneffels, and, according to my preceding notes, I think we have gone sixteen leagues in a downward direction."
-- Its base disappeared in a perfect forest of green trees, among which I perceived olives, fig trees, and vines loaded with rich grapes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may know that it's a base pretension by its having that effect.
-- For, do not, sir,' said Young John, 'do not be so base as to deny that dodge you do, and thrown me back upon myself you have!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My faithful friend and noble patron,' continued Laurie with a wave of the hand, 'who has so flatteringly presented me, is not to be blamed for the base stratagem of tonight.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.
-- Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.
-- Yes,' thinks I, 'it was only a playful cudgelling in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me not a base kick.
-- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
-- Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a man's hand, and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had hesitated for one instant to punish Oliver most severely, it must be quite clear to every experienced reader that he would have been, according to all precedents in disputes of matrimony established, a brute, an unnatural husband, an insulting creature, a base imitation of a man, and various other agreeable characters too numerous for recital within the limits of this chapter.
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