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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roys-terers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.
-- I had descended from my gig and was standing in front of him, when I saw his eyes fix themselves over my shoulder, and stare past me with an expression of the most dreadful horror.
-- I looked back at the platform when we had left it far be-hind, and saw the tall, austere figure of Holmes standing motionless and gazing after us.
-- I was standing watching his pursuit with a mixture of admiration for his extraordinary activity and fear lest he should lose his footing in the treacherous mire, when I heard the sound of steps, and turning round found a woman near me upon the path.
-- The light shone steadily as if he were standing motionless.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- III eneral Ivan Fedorovitch Epanchin was standing In the Gmiddle of the room, and gazed with great curiosity at the prince as he entered.
-- Suddenly Gania approached our hero who was at the moment standing over Nastasia Philipovna's portrait, gaz-ing at it.
-- I thought of asking you to draw the face of a criminal, one minute be-fore the fall of the guillotine, while the wretched man is still standing on the scaffold, preparatory to placing his neck on the block.'
-- Marie was standing at the coffin's head, in all her rags, crying.
-- As the train steamed out of the station, I saw them all standing on the platform waving to me and crying 'Hurrah!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.
-- There she found Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, standing alone.
-- She found him standing among the stalwart heroes who had followed him from the banks of the Aesopus, so she went close up to him and said, 'Brave son of Lycaon, will you do as I tell you?
-- Presently he found standing amid the brave warriors who had followed him from Tricca; thereon he went up to him and said, 'Son of Aesculapius, King Agamemnon says you are to come and see Menelaus immediately.
-- Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephalleni-ans round him; they had not yet heard the battle-cry, for the ranks of Trojans and Achaeans had only just begun to move, so they were standing still, waiting for some other columns of the Achaeans to attack the Trojans and begin the fight-ing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although the fire was burning up briskly, she was surprised to see that her visitor still wore his hat and coat, standing with his back to her and staring out of the window at the falling snow in the yard.
-- When she returned he was still standing there, like a man of stone, his back hunched, his collar turned up, his dripping hat-brim turned down, hiding his face and ears completely.
-- After Mrs. Hall had left the room, he remained standing in front of the fire, glaring, so Mr. Henfrey puts it, at the clock-mending.
-- He was so odd, standing there, so aggressive and explosive, bottle in one hand and test-tube in the other, that Mrs. Hall was quite alarmed.
-- Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and horror-struck, shrieked at what she saw, and made for the door of the house.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was standing on the ladder with his back to us, peering over the combing of the hatch-way.
-- A large launch, with two standing lugs, lay under the lea of the schooner; and into this the strange assortment of goods were swung.
-- Then I realized that I was in that little hell of mine again, now half swamped; and looking back over the gunwale, I saw the schooner standing away from me, with the red-haired captain mocking at me over the taff-rail, and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approached the beach.
-- The little sloth-like creature was standing and staring at me.
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