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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- "The top of mine to the foot of yours,--the foot of yours to the top of mine,--Ring once, ring twice,--the best tune on the Musical Glasses!Your health.
-- On the previous night, I had been sent straight to bed in an attic with a sloping roof, which was so low in the corner where the bedstead was, that I calculated the tiles as being within a foot of my eyebrows.
-- I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
-- Finding that he could not see us very well from where he sat, he got up, and threw one leg over the back of a chair and leaned upon it; thus having one foot on the seat of the chair, and one foot on the ground.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
-- Hans did not speak so softly but the horseman 10 Grimms' Fairy Talesheard it all, and said, 'Well, friend, why do you go on foot then?'
-- Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out, 'Don't bring me any more hay!'
-- cried the little man, and dashed his right foot in a rage so 150 Grimms' Fairy Talesdeep into the floor, that he was forced to lay hold of it with both hands to pull it out.
-- Then he took up his bow, and down fell the thrush into the bushes at the foot of the tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more ar-rows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
-- Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords, of the bigness of packthread, were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.
-- It was my good fortune, that no ill accident happened in these entertainments; only once a fiery horse, that belonged to one of the captains, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole in my handkerchief, and his foot slipping, he overthrew his rider and himself; but I imme-diately relieved them both, and covering the hole with one hand, I set down the troop with the other, in the same man-ner as I took them up.
-- He then commanded his general (who was an old ex-perienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums 43beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
-- After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of 44 Gulliver's Travelsmy right ear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A foot of water in it,' said Mr. Bounderby.
-- Eyeing Mr. Bounderby from head to foot again, he turned from him, as from a man finally disposed of, to Mr. Gradgrind.
-- Mrs. Sparsit netting at the fireside, in a side-saddle attitude, with one foot in a cotton stirrup.
-- 'I can go, Mr. Bounderby, if you wish it,' said that self-sacrificing lady, making a feint of taking her foot out of the stirrup.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- She sat down wearily, tuckingone foot under her, and her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom.
-- Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and triedto rearrange her face in more placid lines.
-- For years, the O'Haras had been in badodor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not thefirst O'Hara to take his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning.
-- True, they had lived in Georgia for seventyyears and, before that, had spent a generation in the Carolinas; but the first of the family who set foot on Americanshores had come from Ulster, and that was enough for Gerald.
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