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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Women, their arms folded over their coarse aprons, standing gossiping at the end of their block, stared after the Brangwen sisters with that long, unwearying stare of aborigines; children called out names.
-- It would be queer to meet again down here in the Midlands, where their social standing was so diverse, after they had known each other on terms of equality in the houses of sundry acquaintances in town.
-- As best man, he would be standing beside the altar.
-- she cried in her sudden, mocking excitement, standing high on the path in the sunlight and waving her bouquet.
-- He glanced up, unaware, and saw the bride and her father standing on the path above him.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she demanded, tying an apron over her neat black frock, and standing with a spoonful of the leaf poised over the pot.
-- 'Throw it,' he replied, standing still, 'and then I'll tell how you boasted that you would turn me out of doors as soon as he died, and see whether he will not turn you out directly.'
-- I bid him beware of rousing the master, and while he undressed and I waited to put out the candle, he continued 'Cathy and I escaped from the wash house to have a ramble at liberty, and getting a glimpse of the Grange lights, we thought we would just go and see whether the Lintons passed their Sunday evenings standing shivering in corners, while their father and mother sat eating and drinking, and singing and laughing, and burning their eyes out before the fire.
-- Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw ah!it was beautiful a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers.
-- But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
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