sideways是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. /a. 向旁边(的) ， 侧身， 横着(的) ， 斜着(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《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as the first labourer struggled to his feet, he was kicked sideways by a blow that might have felled an ox.
-- And then something happened to his rear-most foot, and he went headlong and rolled sideways just in time to graze the feet of his brother and partner, following headlong.
-- He walked sideways to the door.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard him yelp, saw him run sideways and turn, knew I had missed, and clicked back the cock with my thumb for the next shot.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close.
-- There was nothing in the way of fighting that Kala Nag, the old wise Black Snake, did not know, for he had stood up more than once in his time to the charge of the wounded tiger, and, curling up his soft trunk to be out of harm's way, had knocked the springing brute sideways in mid-air with a quick sickle cut of his head, that he had invented all by him-self; had knocked him over, and kneeled upon him with his huge knees till the life went out with a gasp and a howl, and there was only a fluffy striped thing on the ground for Kala Nag to pull by the tail.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- What a soothing, luxurious, drowsy way of travelling, to lie inside that slowly-moving mountain, listening to the tinkling of the horses' bells, the occasional smacking of the carter's whip, the smooth rolling of the great broad wheels, the rattle of the harness, the cheery good-nights of passing travellers jogging past on little short-stepped horses all made pleasantly indistinct by the thick awning, which seemed made for lazy listening under, till one fell asleep!The very going to sleep, still with an indistinct idea, as the head jogged to and fro upon the pillow, of moving onward with no trouble or fatigue, and hearing all these sounds like dreamy music, lulling to the senses and the slow waking up, and finding one's self staring out through the breezy curtain half-opened in the front, far up into the cold bright sky with its countless stars, and downward at the driver's lantern dancing on like its namesake Jack of the swamps and marshes, and sideways at the dark grim trees, and forward at the long bare road rising up, up, up, until it stopped abruptly at a sharp high ridge as if there were no more road, and all beyond was sky and the stopping at the inn to bait, and being helped out, and going into a room with fire and candles, and winking very much, and being agreeably reminded that the night was cold, and anxious for very comfort's sake to think it colder than it was! What a delicious journey was that journey in the waggon.
-- And when he had told them all about the case, and that he had never known a worse case, he stopped a little while, like a man who had something terrible to tell them, and then said that he understood an attempt would be made by his learned friend (and here he looked sideways at Kit's gentleman) to impeach the testimony of those immaculate witnesses whom he should call before them; but he did hope and trust that his learned friend would have a greater respect and veneration for the character of the prosecutor; than whom, as he well knew, there did not exist, and never had existed, a more honourable member of that most honourable profession to which he was attached.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I felt sideways for the projecting hooks, and, as I did so, my feet were grasped from behind, and I was violently tugged backward.
-- And this time I was not seated properly in the saddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I returned with the rum, they were already seated on either side of the captain's breakfast-table Black Dog next to the door and sitting sideways so as to have one eye on his old shipmate and one, as I thought, on his retreat.
-- At the same instant, he threw himself forward and I leapt sideways towards the bows.
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：
-- His dark hair fell sideways over his brow, from under his cap, he stood strangely aloof, like one of the damned.
-- The man looked at her with a sideways look of appreciation, yet far-off, almost insolent.
-- She was sitting sideways on the horse, her face in her hands, as if in shame and grief, in a little abandon.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- D'ye see Ahab standing there, sideways looking over the stern?
-- Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest eye of Starbuck fell downright.
-- The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Grimwig of Mr. Brownlow, at the conclusion of the meal; looking sideways at Oliver, as he resumed his subject.
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