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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through the crack 芒聙娄' They were already at the foot of the last flight of stairs, at the level of the landlady's door, and they could, as a fact, see from below that there was a light in Raskolnikov's garret.
-- Her hair had be-gun to grow grey and thin, there had long been little crow's foot wrinkles round her eyes, her cheeks were hollow and sunken from anxiety and grief, and yet it was a handsome face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remarked that,once or twice, when Mr. Quinion was talking, he looked at Mr.Murdstone sideways, as if to make sure of his not being displeased;and that once when Mr. Passnidge (the other gentleman) was inhigh spirits, he trod upon his foot and gave him a secret cautionwith his eyes, to observe Mr. Murdstone, who was sitting stern andsilent.
-- Every barn in the neighbourhood, every stone in the church,and every foot of the churchyard, had some association of its own,in my mind, connected with these books, and stood for somelocality made famous in them.
-- God knows how infantine the memory may have been, that wasawakened within me by the sound of my mother's voice in the oldparlour, when I set foot in the hall.
-- Peggotty sat with herchin on her foot of the stocking, looking silently at the fire.
-- He was five foot nine anda half, and he lays in five and twen-ty foot of ground.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped. Emma felt her foot pressed by Mrs. Weston, and did not herself know what to think.
-- Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty. The considerable slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradu-ally acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood; and at the bottom of this bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and handsome curve around it.
-- Emma would not have smiled for the world, and only said, 'Is Mr. Elton gone on foot to Donwell? He will have a hot walk.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- The hut stood on little wheels, which raised its floor about a foot from the ground.
-- Lingering and musing here, he heard the steps of a horse at the foot of the hill, and soon there appeared in view an auburn pony with a girl on its back, ascending by the path leading past the cattle-shed.
-- He calculated that he had walked a very fair proportion of the journey; and having been on foot since daybreak, he felt tempted to lie down upon the hay in the waggon instead of pushing on to the village of Weatherbury, and having to pay for a lodging.
-- Maryann stalked off towards the rick and met Oak at the foot of the ladder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
-- You ought to have seen her!Well, and this morning I met this divine countess about nine o'clock, on foot in the Rue de Gres.
-- "Make room there, Father Goriot!Confound it, your foot covers the whole front of the stove."
-- He sent up his name to the Countess, and waited in the ante-chamber, standing on one foot before a window that looked out upon the court; mechanically he leaned his elbow against the sash, and stared before him.
-- Just at that moment Father Goriot appeared close to the gate; he had emerged from a door at the foot of the back staircase.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.
-- She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream.
-- As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against something and fell at his length on the ground.
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