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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it.
-- Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard the news of his destination, in perfect silence; and, having had his luggage put into his hand--which was not very difficult to carry, inasmuch as it was all comprised within the limits of a brown paper parcel, about half a foot square by three inches deep--he pulled his cap over his eyes; and once more attaching himself to Mr. Bumble's coat cuff, was led away by that dignitary to a new scene of suffering.
-- 'Yes, sir,' replied Oliver, who had carefully kept himself out of sight, during the interview; and who was shaking from head to foot at the mere recollection of the sound of Mr. Bumble's voice.
-- The girl stamped her foot violently on the floor as she vented this threat; and with her lips compressed, and her hands clenched, looked alternately at the Jew and the other robber: her face quite colourless from the passion of rage into which she had gradually worked herself.
-- So he at once expressed his readiness; and, kneeling on the floor, while the Dodger sat upon the table so that he could take his foot in his laps, he applied himself to a process which Mr. Dawkins designated as 'japanning his trotter-cases.'
-- On looking intently forward, Oliver saw that the water was just below them, and that they were coming to the foot of a bridge.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you'll believe me, I did not once put my foot out of doors, though I was there a fortnight.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieuten-ant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards.
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- Here we got in, andthough not without much difficulty, got all safe on shore, and walked afterwards on foot to Yarmouth, where, as un-fortunate men, we were used with great humanity, as well by the magistrates of the town, who assigned us good quar-ters, as by particular merchants and owners of ships, and had money given us sufficient to carry us either to London or back to Hull as we thought fit.
-- I would not set my foot in the same ship with thee again for a thousand pounds.'
-- As soon as I found water enough - for my raft drew about a foot of water - I thrust her upon that flat piece of ground, and there fastened or moored her, by stick-ing my two broken oars into the ground, one on one side near one end, and one on the other side near the other end; and thus I lay till the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo safe on shore.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand.
-- Elinor was employed in walking thoughtfully from the fire to the window, from the window to the fire, without knowing that she received warmth from one, or discerning objects through the other; and Marianne, seated at the foot of the bed, with her head leaning against one of its posts, again took up Willoughby's letter, and, after shuddering over every sentence, exclaimed "It is too much!Oh, Willoughby, Willoughby, could this be yours!Cruel, cruel nothing can acquit you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her feet carried her mechanically forward, every foot of her progress being a satisfactory portion of a flight which she gladly made.
-- "I think I'll go down and stand at the foot of the stairs," she said, after a time.
-- "She said she was going down to the foot of the stairs," answered Minnie.
-- She wandered about after the dishes were put away, talked a little with Minnie, and then decided to go down and stand in the door at the foot of the stairs.
-- It made him feel light of foot as he thought about her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun.
-- He had one ankle resting on t'other knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then.
-- He hopped around the cabin con- siderable, first on one leg and then on the other, hold- ing first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick.
-- Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thir-teen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
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