steep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 陡峭的; (价格等) 过高的; 急剧的(上升或下降) ; vt. 浸泡, 沉浸，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through such an atmosphere, by a steep dark shaft of dirt and poison, the way lay.
-- Two or three times, the matter in hand became so knotty, that the jackal found it imperative on him to get up, and steep his towels anew.
-- Monsieur the Marquis in his travelling carriage (which might have been lighter), conducted by four post-horses and two postilions, fagged up a steep hill.
-- Out of the wine-shop into the street, out of the street into a courtyard, out of the courtyard up a steep staircase, out of the staircase into a garret, formerly the garret where a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes.
-- Through gloomy vaults where the light of day had never shone, past hideous doors of dark dens and cages, down cav-ernous flights of steps, and again up steep rugged ascents of stone and brick, more like dry waterfalls than staircases, De-farge, the turnkey, and Jacques Three, linked hand and arm, went with all the speed they could make.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Easy as it was to mow the wet, soft grass, it was hard work going up and down the steep sides of the ravine.
-- Swinging his scythe just as ever, and moving his feet in their big, plaited shoes with firm, little steps, he climbed slowly up the steep place, and though his breeches hanging out below his smock, and his whole frame trembled with effort, he did not miss one blade of grass or one mushroom on his way, and kept making jokes with the peasants and Levin.
-- Levin walked after him and often thought he must fall, as he climbed with a scythe up a steep cliff where it would have been hard work to clamber without anything.
-- "Kitty, don't come down the steep staircase, go round."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The narrow, steep staircase was very dark.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We found the coach very near athand, and got upon the roof, but I was so dead sleepy, that whenwe stopped on the road to take up somebody else, they put meinside where there were no passengers, and where I slept until Ifound the coach going at a footpace up a steep hill among greenleaves.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A child on the watch, came towards them to beg; and Miss Bickerton, excessively frightened, gave a great scream, and calling on Harriet to follow her, ran up a steep bank, cleared a slight hedge at the top, and made the best of her way by a short cut back to Highbury.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could show others the steep and thorny way, but "reck'd not her own rede."
-- COMING HOME A CRYOn the turnpike road, between Casterbridge and Weatherbury, and about three miles from the former place, is Yalbury Hill, one of those steep long ascents which pervade the highways of this undulating part of South Wessex.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the steep sides of the mountain they dug their riflepits and on the towering heights they planted their batteries.
-- The retreat from Dalton to Kennesaw Mountain had taken from early May to mid-June and as the hot rainy daysof June passed and Sherman failed to dislodge the Confederates from the steep slippery slopes, hope again raised itshead.
-- He pretended to be surprised and smiled in a way that made her long to pushhim backwards down the steep steps.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youngest son fell to the bottom of the river's bed: luckily it was nearly dry, but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he could find no way to get out.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I was afterwards told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of the adventure; but ran as fast as I could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country.
-- But the Houyhnhnms train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They followed the girl up some steep corner-stairs without meeting any one, and stopped in the dark while she went on for a candle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as the eider duck never selects steep rocks or aspects to build its nest, but rather sloping and low cliffs near to the sea, the Icelandic hunter can carry on his trade operations w ithout much difficulty.
-- In certain places the sides of this stupendous mountain were at an angle so steep that it was impossible to climb upwards, and we were compelled to get round these obstacles as best we might.
-- My uncle was so delighted that he actually clapped his hands--as he saw how steep and sharp was the descent.
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