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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, his weight shut up the instrument immediately by pushing the different parts one into the other, and so suddenly, that he fell full length on deck, and lay sprawling at the foot of the mainmast.
-- He set his foot on the very summit, and found that there was not even room enough to sit down.
-- At five in the evening they stopped in a gorge of no great depth, some miles above the little town of Loja, and encamped for the night at the foot of the Sierras, the first steppes of the great Cordilleras.
-- "On the other side we shall get back into the road to Antuco, and I'm quite sure I'll lead you to the foot of the mountain as straight as the best guide in the Cordilleras."
-- There surely must be a storm raging down below at the foot of the mountains.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go back and never set foot upon the moor again.'
-- At last my foot was on the threshold of his hiding place his secret was within my grasp.
-- Hol-mes struck the door just over the lock with the flat of his foot and it flew open.
-- Holmes sank to his waist as he stepped from the path to seize it, and had we not been there to drag him out he could never have set his foot upon firm land again.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the foot of the ladder he had been pale enough; but when he set foot on the scaffold at the top, his face suddenly became the colour of paper, positively like white notepaper.
-- Gania stamped his foot with impatience.
-- and Ga-nia stamped his foot twice on the pavement.
-- cried Nastasia, stamping her foot with irritation.
-- continued the latter, examining the prince from head to foot without the slightest ceremony.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once before when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold.
-- With him they came, fleet of foot and wearing their hair long behind, brave warriors, who would ever strive to tear open the corslets of their foes with their long ashen spears.
-- No man living could equal him in the marshalling of chariots and foot soldiers.
-- In my father's stables there are eleven excel-lent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you stood four or five foot away and didn't know it was sawed, you wouldn't never notice it; and besides, this was the back of the cabin, and it warn't likely anybody would go fooling around there.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio's legs were so stiff that he could not move them, and Geppetto held his hand and showed him how to put out one foot after the other.
-- He placed a little pan over a foot warmer full of hot coals.
-- CHAPTER 6 Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on a foot warmer, and awakens the next day with his feet all burned off.
-- He turned to look and behold, there in the darkness stood two big black shadows, wrapped from head to foot in black sacks.
-- They gathered a bundle of wood, piled it up at the foot of the pine, and set fire to it.
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