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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mean to try and succeed where Krick, the missionary so unfortunately failed in 1846; in a word, I want to follow the course of the river Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou, which waters Thibet for a distance of 1500 kilometres, flowing along the northern base of the Himalayas, and to find out at last whether this river does not join itself to the Brahmapoutre in the northeast of As-sam.
-- An enormous water-spout was gradually forming in the south—a cone of thick mists, but with the point at the bottom, and base at the top, linking together the turbulent water and the angry clouds.
-- The Australian Alps are of no great thickness, and the base is not more than eight miles wide.
-- The Maories were still in the same position round the base of the mountain, uttering fearful cries.
-- Fires lighted at intervals formed a girdle of flame round the base of the mountain, so that when darkness fell, Maunganamu appeared to rise out of a great brasier, and to hide its head in the thick darkness.
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 longed to console and encourage her somehow, and to assure her that she was not the low, base thing which she and others strove to make out; but I don't think she understood me.
-- 'Do you wish me to beg pardon of this creature because she has come here to insult our mother and disgrace the whole household, you low, base wretch?'
-- His face reddened with shame at the thought; and then there came across him as in a flash the memory of the incidents at the Pavlofsk station, and at the other station in the morning; and the question asked him by Rogojin about THE EYES and Rogojin's cross, that he was even now wearing; and the benediction of Rogojin's mother; and his embrace on the darkened staircase that last supreme renunciation and now, to find himself full of this new 'idea,' staring into shop-windows, and looking round for things how base he was!
-- 'What do I care if you are base or not?
-- I declare, I was base enough to suspect Evgenie at first; but it seems certain that that cannot be the case, and if so, why is she interfering here?
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：
-- 'If anything could add to my own base love of life,' said Heyward, suffering his unconscious eyes to wander to the youthful form of the silent Alice, 'it would be so kind an as- surance.
-- Their distance from the base of the fatal hill was but a few rods, and the steeds had been serviceable only in crossing the shallow stream.
-- On a strip of land, which ap-peared from his stand too narrow to contain such an army, but which, in truth, extended many hundreds of yards from the shores of the Horican to the base of the mountain, were to be seen the white tents and military engines of an en-campment of ten thousand men.
-- More than half a mile was passed, before the rill rippled close around the base of an extensive and dry rock.
-- Instead of pursuing his way among those lodges where Heyward had already made his unsuccessful search, his companion turned aside, and proceeded directly toward the base of an adjacent mountain, which overhung the tem-porary village.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At its base was hollowed out a little creek, the farthest part of which formed a tolerably sharp angle.
-- This second stage of the mountain rose on a base of rocks, among which it would be easy to find a retreat.
-- Before taking any rest, he wished to know if it was possible to get round the base of the cone in the case of its sides being too steep and its summit being inaccessible.
-- Also, if the summit of the mountain could not be reached on one side, and if, on the other, they could not get round the base of the cone, it would be impossible to survey the western part of the country, and their object in making the ascent would in part be altogether unattained.
-- Cyrus Harding gazed for some time at this splendid constellation, which has at its summit and at its base two stars of the first magnitude, at its left arm a star of the second, and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flinging this final interjection at Miss Sally with immeasurable scorn and contempt, Sampson Brass thrust his head into his desk, as if to shut the base world from his view, and breathed defiance from under its half-closed lid.
-- 'Come, come, Miss Brass,' said the Notary, 'you have great command of feature, but you feel, I see, that by a chance which never entered your imagination, this base design is revealed, and two of its plotters must be brought to justice.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Are not my relations toward Maria Vasilievna base and detestable?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked in silence at the high straight wall we were running by at this moment, the immovable base of a massive sandy coast.
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