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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'None escape,' said a dappled brute standing in the door-way.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bulls were turned, to the right this time, and crashed into the standing thicket.
-- Buldeo, who was still stooping over Shere Khan's head, found himself sprawling on the grass, with a gray wolf standing over him, while Mowgli went on skinning as though he were alone in all India.
-- Then you can imagine the times that he had with his companions, ducking under the rollers; or coming in on top of a comber and landing with a swash and a splutter as the big wave went whirling far up the beach; or standing up on his tail and scratching his head as the old people did; or playing 'I'm the King of the Castle' on slippery, weedy rocks that just stuck out of the wash. Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark's fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
-- 'It's horrible,' said Kotick, backing water as a wave went over him, and steadying himself with a screw stroke of his flippers that brought him all standing within three inches of a jagged edge of rock.
-- By daylight Kotick's mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.
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：
-- The horses had been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew in the fissures of the rocks, where, standing in the water, they were left to pass the night.
-- A loud shriek from the younger of the sisters, and the form of the other standing upright before him, in bewil-dered horror, was the unexpected answer he received.
-- He found him, standing with one arm cast about the protecting post, and breathing thick and hard, after his exertions, but dis-daining to permit a single sign of suffering to escape.
-- Standing a single minute to enjoy his bitter triumph, he turned away, as if sickening at the gaze of men, and, veil-ing his face in his blanket, he walked from the lodge with the noiseless step of an Indian seeking, in the privacy of his own abode, the sympathy of one like himself, aged, forlorn and childless.
-- The entrance of these fierce-looking beings was unnoticed: some seating themselves in the shad-ows of the place, and others standing like motionless statues, until the whole of the designated band was collected.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
-- The Colonel, still standing in front of the fireplace, uttered no word.
-- It was really rather mysterious, and it seemed to me that Stroeve, standing just behind, was trembling in his shoes.
-- He had a sudden vision of her standing in the kitchen it was hardly larger than a cupboard washing the plates and glasses, the forks and spoons, giving the knives a rapid polish on the knife-board; and then putting everything away, giving the sink a scrub, and hanging the dish-cloth up to dry it was there still, a gray torn rag; then looking round to see that everything was clean and nice.
-- It may be that in order to realise the romance of life you must have something of the actor in you; and, capable of standing outside yourself, you must be able to watch your actions with an interest at once detached and absorbed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 7 Gideon Spilett was standing motionless on the shore, his arms crossed, gazing over the sea, the horizon of which was lost towards the east in a thick black cloud which was spreading rapidly towards the zenith.
-- But at last they succeeded, and could only remain standing by leaning against the rocks.
-- Meanwhile, the engineer was standing motionless, his eyes fixed on the gulf, without uttering a word.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- The lad had a remarkable manner of standing sideways as he spoke, and thrusting his head forward over his shoulder, as if he could not get at his voice without that accompanying action.
-- I was surprised to see the child standing patiently by with a cloak upon her arm, and in her hand a hat, and stick.
-- I remained standing on the spot where he had left me, unwilling to depart, and yet unknowing why I should loiter there.
-- Mr Swiveller complied, and looking about him with a propitiatory smile, observed that last week was a fine week for the ducks, and this week was a fine week for the dust; he also observed that whilst standing by the post at the street-corner, he had observed a pig with a straw in his mouth issuing out of the tobacco-shop, from which appearance he augured that another fine week for the ducks was approaching, and that rain would certainly ensue.
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