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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he left Mr. Bounderby swelling at his own portrait on the wall, as if he were going to explode himself into it; and Mrs. Sparsit still ambling on with her foot in her stirrup, looking quite cast down by the popular vices.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Harry--Harry--Harry--" I hastened to obey, but before I could reach his room, jumping three steps at a time, he was stamping his right foot upon the landing.
-- Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land.
-- Now, the understanding was, that he was to take us to the village of Stapi, situated on the southern slope of the peninsula of Sneffels, at the very foot of the volcano.
-- cried my uncle, suddenly transformed into a foot passenger--and as angry and ashamed as a dismounted cavalry officer on the field of battle.
-- But if I really had intended to leave Professor Hardwigg to his fate, it should have been at Hamburg and not at the foot of Sneffels.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing it, she stamped her foot with impatience.
-- And she did feel the peculiar, withering coldness under it all; like the soil of Lab-rador, which his gay little flowers on its surface, and a foot down is frozen.
-- But I should never forget what they said about Ted, for he was as steady and fearless a chap as ever set foot on the cage, and it was as good as branding him a coward.
-- Clifford was sit-ting up in bed, with the bed-table and typewriter pushed aside, and the keeper was standing at attention at the foot of the bed.
-- They came to the dark bottom of the hollow, turned to the right, and after a hundred yards swerved up the foot of the long slope, where bluebells stood in the light.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for imprisonment, and seemed to lag), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had better resume his own darker place.
-- Though a tall, hard-favoured, sinewy old woman, who in her youth might have enlisted in the Foot Guards without much fear of discovery, she collapsed before the little keen-eyed crab-like old man.
-- At the head of the bed and within a foot of Mrs Flintwinch's ear, was a bell, the line of which hung ready to Mrs Clennam's hand.
-- 'In the very hour of his return almost before the shoe upon his foot is dry he asperses his father's memory to his mother!Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime!Has misgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much plunder; and asks to whom they shall be given up, as reparation and restitution!'
-- Then would he come down to that house with a slap upon the table, and meet the honourable gentleman foot to foot.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kneeling at the foot of the tower, he sang a serenade in melting tones.
-- cried Meg at the foot of the gar-ret stairs.
-- Jo wanted very much to ask what his own way was, but his black brows looked rather threatening as he knit them, so she changed the subject by saying, as her foot kept time, 'That's a splendid polka!Why don't you go and try it?'
-- Meg forgot her foot and rose so quickly that she was forced to catch hold of Jo, with an exclamation of pain.
-- I turned my foot a little, that's all,' and limped upstairs to put her things on.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn," there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement, rather weary for me, when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight.
-- I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too short; but that could be mended with a chair.
-- But it was a foot too narrow, and the other bench in the room was about four inches higher than the planed one so there was no yoking them.
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