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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the crowd was an athletic young fellow of somewhat superior appearance to the rest in fact, his superiority was marked enough to lead several ruddy peasants standing by to speak to him inquiringly, as to a farmer, and to use "Sir" as a finishing word.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- Vauquer, "just imagine it; he did not even ask Victorine to sit down, she was standing the whole time.
-- He sent up his name to the Countess, and waited in the ante-chamber, standing on one foot before a window that looked out upon the court; mechanically he leaned his elbow against the sash, and stared before him.
-- Rastignac turned abruptly and saw her standing before him, coquettishly dressed in a loose white cashmere gown with knots of rose-colored ribbon here and there; her hair was carelessly coiled about her head, as is the wont of Parisian women in the morning; there was a soft fragrance about her--doubtless she was fresh from a bath;--her graceful form seemed more flexible, her beauty more luxuriant.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
-- A woman deposed that she lived near the beach and was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of the fishermen, about an hour before she heard of the dis-covery of the body, when she saw a boat with only one man in it push off from that part of the shore where the corpse was afterwards found.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I kept thinking she would," yelled Stuart "Why do you suppose ..." CHAPTER II WHEN THE TWINS left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had diedaway, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker.
-- His long white hair standing out behind him, he urged the horse forward with crop and loud cries.
-- "No, Pa, I'm no tattletale like Suellen," she assured him, standing off to view his rearranged attire with a judiciousair.
-- He tossed the reins of his horse to a small pickaninny standing near and started up the steps.
-- She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fierylittle husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- "Mrs. Joe," said Uncle Pumblechook, a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to, "I have brought you as the compliments of the season--I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of sherry wine--and I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of port wine."
-- Before we departed from that spot, four soldiers standing in a ring, fired twice into the air.
-- "You can say what you like," returned the sergeant, standing coolly looking at him with his arms folded, "but you have no call to say it here.
-- And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us--though you may not think it, Joseph," in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, "then mention this boy, standing Prancing here"--which I solemnly declare I was not doing--"that I have for ever been a willing slave to?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
-- And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together be-fore the house the shepherd said, 'I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow morning, for he is of no use now.'
-- The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when they espied their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they said they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree.
-- Then he came at last to the palace, and there in the court lay the dogs asleep; and the horses were standing in the stables; and on the roof sat the pigeons fast asleep, with their heads under their wings.
-- And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the walls; the spit was standing still; the butler had the 36 Grimms' Fairy Talesjug of ale at his lips, going to drink a draught; the maid sat with a fowl in her lap ready to be plucked; and the cook in the kitchen was still holding up her hand, as if she was go-ing to beat the boy.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me, by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of their own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of their neighbour; yet our emperor, standing upon the advan-tage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech, in the Lilli-putian tongue.
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
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