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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo looked at me curiously, and made a negative gesture, as much as to say that nothing would force him to set foot on terra firma again.
-- "So you are astonished, Professor, at having set foot on a strange land and finding savages?
-- The lieutenant had taken up the glass and examined the horizon steadfastly, going and coming, stamping his foot and showing more nervous agitation than his superior officer.
-- It was almost impossible to keep one's foot on the platform, which the heavy rolls of the sea beat over every instant.
-- I felt them put an iron-pointed stick into my hand, and some minutes later, after going through the usual form, we set foot on the bottom of the Atlantic at a depth of 150 fathoms.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They pressed near to receive her, looking with zest at the stooping blond head with its flower buds, and at the delicate, white, tentative foot that was reaching down to the step of the carriage.
-- Suddenly a flame ran over her, and she stamped her foot madly on the road, and he winced, afraid that she would strike him.
-- There were pictures on the walls, and the antlers of a stag and the stairs going up on one side and just near the foot of the stairs the half opened door of the dining-room.
-- I cannot believe myself, I am so transported, the moment I set foot on a foreign shore.
-- And he found what he desired, a perfect long, fierce sweep, sheering past the foot of a rock and into the trees at the base.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The roads will be buried already; and, if they were bare, I could scarcely distinguish a foot in advance.
-- A wild, wicked slip she was but she had the bonniest eye, the sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you co mpany, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.
-- The dog was throttled off; his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver.
-- he whispered to his mother, "and look how Skulker has bitten her how her foot bleeds!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what was hidden down there, at the foot of that shaft?
-- At last, with intense relief, I saw dimly coming up, a foot to the right of me, a slender loophole in the wall.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning he and I set out on foot for the Admiral Benbow, and there I found my mother in good health and spirits.
-- "If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that.
-- It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.
-- All this while, as I say, I was still running, and without taking any notice, I had drawn near to the foot of the little hill with the two peaks and had got into a part of the island where the live-oaks grew more widely apart and seemed more like forest trees in their bearing and dimensions.
-- The latter stood in several places as much as a foot or a foot and a half above the surface of the sand.
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