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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Menelaus, therefore, thrust Adrestus from him, whereon King Agamemnon struck him in the flank, and he fell: then the son of Atreus planted his foot upon his breast to draw his spear from the body.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Jaffers lay quite still, face upward and knees bent, at the foot of the steps of the inn.
-- Mr. Thomas Marvel jumped a foot and howled aloud.
-- He stopped at the foot of the "Coach and Horses" steps, and, according to Mr. Huxter, appeared to undergo a severe internal struggle before he could induce himself to enter the house.
-- Dr. Kemp's scientific pursuits have made him a very observant man, and as he recrossed the hall, he noticed a dark spot on the linoleum near the mat at the foot of the stairs.
-- His staring eyes and thick-lipped bearded face came a foot from my face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery stayed at the foot for a moment.
-- My foot struck a stone.
-- Then with an inspiration I turned over the deck chair, put my foot on the side of it, and tore away the side rail.
-- 'They broke the Law,' said I, putting my foot on the Sayer of the Law.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
-- 'Come to the foot of the hill when thou art a man, and we will talk to thee; and we will come into the croplands to play with thee by night.'
-- 'Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,' Baloo answered very earnestly.
-- He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order.
-- Mowgli turned and saw the great Python's head swaying a foot above his own.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the for-midable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds.
-- Foot by foot, they were driven back from the shores, until I, that am a chief and a Sagamore, have never seen the sun shine but through the trees, and have never visited the graves of my fathers.'
-- 'I am as ready to do the one as the other; but to fight the Iroquois 'tis necessary to find the skulkers; and to eat, 'tis necessary to get the game talk of the devil and he will come; there is a pair of the biggest antlers I have seen this season, moving the bushes below the hill!Now, Uncas,' he continued, in a half whisper, and laughing with a kind of inward sound, like one who had learned to be watchful, 'I will bet my charger three times full of powder, against a foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes, and nearer to the right than to the left.'
-- 'The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a line with the bark of the tree, and,' tapping his rifle, 'I can take him from where I stand, between the angle and the knee, with a single shot, putting an end to his tramping through the woods, for at least a month to come.
-- Just as Alice veiled her eyes in horror, under the impression that they were about to be swept within the vortex at the foot of the cataract, the canoe floated, stationary, at the side of a flat rock, that lay on a level with the water.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
-- She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saar dam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provok-ingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
-- A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweet-est water, in a little well formed of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows.
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