standing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 持续, 期间; 身分, 地位, 名望; a. 永存的, 常务的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrapper he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses.
-- The cur-tains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your el-bow.
-- It was a much greater sur-prise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew's and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew with approving affability.
-- He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Af-ter standing with the bridle over his heavily-splashed arm, until the wheels of the mail were no longer within hearing and the night was quite still again, he turned to walk down the hill.
-- Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and grow-ing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose.
-- The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room, until, having got past the two tall candles, he saw standing to receive him by the table between them and the fire, a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travellinghat by its ribbon in her hand.
-- 'Why don't you go and fetch things, instead of standing there staring at me?
-- Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the win-dows, cried out, 'Oh!How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes!What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!'
-- It was a Princess who was standing outside the door.
-- while he was standing in his pillory: there would be a mob, a hissing, and rejoicing, and jeering, ten times worse than in the rows about the Jews some years ago 'Oh, my blood is mounting to my brain; 'tis enough to drive one mad!I shall go wild!I know not what to do.
-- For to-day, however, she would allow it; and they must shut him in the empty cage that was standing in the window.
-- There was a whole row of them standing from the town-gates to the pal-ace.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- Chapter 4 Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.
-- It would have struck him as absurd if he had been told that he would not get a position with the salary he required, especially as he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing duties of the kind than any other man.
-- All the officials sitting on the further side under the portrait of the Tsar and the eagle, delighted at any distraction, looked round at the door; but the doorkeeper standing at the door at once drove out the intruder, and closed the glass door after him.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was standing at the top of the stairs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Passepartout, whose eyes were standing wide open.
-- Phileas Fogg, with body erect and legs wide apart, standing like a sailor, gazed without staggering at the swelling waters.
-- On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles; amid the foliage of the weeping willows were herons, solemnly standing on one leg; and on every hand were crows, ducks, hawks, wild birds, and a multitude of cranes, which the Japanese consider sacred, and which to their minds symbolise long life and prosperity.
-- "But can you sing standing on your head, with a top spinning on your left foot, and a sabre balanced on your right?"
-- Aouda, standing near him, looked at him without speaking, and he understood her look.
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