downwards是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 向下， 以下，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For many Trojans and Achaeans on that day lay stretched side by side face downwards upon the earth.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel I'm lying head downwards in a sort of pit, but I ought not to save myself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he cried, and he tried to hold out his hand to her, but losing his balance, he fell off the sofa, face downwards on the floor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the trees, which some hundred feet downwards shaded the banks of the creek, they belonged, for the most part, to the species which abound in the temperate zone of America and Tasmania, and no longer to those coniferae observed in that portion of the island already explored to some miles from Prospect Heights.
-- At this place, the plateau inclined downwards from the waters, which were only restrained by their granite case.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But Charlotte," continued Coggan "not a word of the sort would Charlotte allow, nor the smallest item of taking in vain.... Ay, poor Charlotte, I wonder if she had the good fortune to get into Heaven when 'a died!But 'a was never much in luck's way, and perhaps 'a went downwards after all, poor soul."
-- This was eaten on the plateless system, which is performed by placing a slice of bread upon the table, the meat flat upon the bread, a mustard plaster upon the meat, and a pinch of salt upon the whole, then cutting them vertically downwards with a large pocket-knife till wood is reached, when the severed lump is impaled on the knife, elevated, and sent the proper way of food.
-- In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
-- The circumstance had been the gentle dip of Troy's mouth downwards upon her own.
-- From her feet, and between the beautiful yellowing ferns with their feathery arms, the ground sloped downwards to a hollow, in which was a species of swamp, dotted with fungi.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
-- As the common size of the natives is somewhat un-der six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several grada-tions downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All we could distinguish was a vast dome of white, which fell downwards from the head of the giant.
-- I have discovered that it goes directly downwards into the bowels of the earth, and in a few hours will take us to the old granitic formation.
-- The gallery now began to trend downwards in a horizontal direction, with about two inches of fall in every furlong.
-- Moreover, from time to time the slopes were much greater, the naiad sang more loudly, and we began to dip downwards in earnest.
-- Absolute "As you silence, are so we I felt,ak, dowould not speak.be We have been searching for you in all directions, both by going upwards and downwards in the gallery.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though true cylinders without within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
-- Grace being said, for those people have their grace as well as we though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
-- He was thrown at whole length upon two chests, his face downwards and inclosed in his folded arms.
-- said Don Pedro, looking downwards into the crowded plazza, with humorous concern.
-- Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat.
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