foot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 脚， 足； 英尺； 底部，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it a foot or a claw.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The joker rapped it with his own, took a nimble spring upward, and came down in a fantastic dancing attitude, with one of his stained shoes jerked off his foot into his hand, and held out.
-- Gradually, it subsided to a foot pace, swinging and lumbering upward among the many sweet scents of a summer night.
-- When Saint Antoine had again enfolded the Defarges in his dusky wings, and they, having finally alighted near the 250 A tale of two citiesSaint's boundaries, were picking their way on foot through the black mud and offal of his streets, Madame Defarge spoke to her husband: 'Say then, my friend; what did Jacques of the police tell thee?'
-- The Doctor shaded his forehead with his hand, and beat his foot nervously on the ground.
-- Still, the Doctor, with shaded forehead, beat his foot ner-vously on the ground.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.
-- The next day she was dressed from head to foot in silk and velvet.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was just going in, stepping on his whole foot so as not to creak, up the worn steps of the terrace, when he suddenly remembered what he always forgot, and what caused the most torturing side of his relations with her, her son with his questioning--hostile, as he fancied--eyes.
-- Getting his right foot in the stirrup, he smoothed the double reins, as he always did, between his fingers, and Cord let go.
-- As though she did not know which foot to put first, Frou-Frou started, dragging at the reins with her long neck, and as though she were on springs, shaking her rider from side to side.
-- Frou-Frou started into a gallop, her left foot forward, made two bounds, and fretting at the tightened reins, passed into a jolting trot, bumping her rider up and down.
-- It happened that the famous Commission of the 2nd of June had set on foot an inquiry into the irrigation of lands in the Zaraisky province, which fell under Alexey Alexandrovitch's department, and was a glaring example of fruitless expenditure and paper reforms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEARPhileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.
-- They were going to Dover; good!To Calais; good again!After all, Passepartout, who had been away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again.
-- Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
-- They lay down at the foot of a tree, and waited.
-- IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCOIt was seven in the morning when Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout set foot upon the American continent, if this name can be given to the floating quay upon which they disembarked.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly the apparition was gone and Martin sat trembling, hands trembling on the little steering-wheel, foot trembling like St. Vitus's dance on the brake.
-- He's got a bunch of nephews and so on in the German army, and the patriots like Big Foot Pearl will give an exhibit of idealism by persecuting him.
-- In the haze of a lantern held by a steward at the foot of the steps, Martin could see a smart covered launch, manned by darky sailors in naval uniform and glazed black straw hats with ribbons, and commanded by a Scotch-looking man with some sort of a peaked uniform cap over a civilian jacket.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there's pomatum, too, you see, she must have things; petticoats, starched ones, shoes, too, real jaunty ones to show off her foot when she has to step over a puddle.
-- said Zossimov to Raskolnikov, watching him carefully and, sitting down at the foot of the sofa, he settled himself as comfortably as he could.
-- Then I'd roll the stone back so that it would look as before, would press it down with my foot and walk away.
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