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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a very steep winding path on the left, which the mules never would have attempted.
-- They were being rapidly dragged down a steep declivity.
-- Through this opening the whole party passed and reached the top of the cliff by a pretty steep path.
-- At last they succeeded, and the raft, after a passage of more than half an hour, struck against the steep bank of the opposite shore.
-- The travelers had barely time to catch hold of the steep bank.
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：
-- A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.
-- The whole steep slope was covered with gray circular rings of stone, a score of them at least.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was in Switzerland I used to look with as-tonishment at the many ruins of feudal castles perched on the top of steep and rocky heights, half a mile at least above sea-level, so that to reach them one had to climb many miles of stony tracks.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, she drew Mars out of the battle, and set him down upon the steep banks of the Scamander.
-- Now, however, I will give way in spite of my displeasure; furthermore let me tell you, and I mean what I say if contrary to the desire of myself, Minerva driver of the spoil, Juno, Mercury, and King Vul-can, Jove spares steep Ilius, and will not let the Achaeans have the great triumph of sacking it, let him understand that he will incur our implacable resentment.'
-- Short of life indeed did my mother Laothoe bear me, daughter of aged Altes of Altes who reigns over the war-like Lelegae and holds steep Pedasus on the river Satnioeis.
-- Then Achilles, fain to kill him, hurled his spear at Asteropaeus, but failed to hit him and struck the steep bank of the river, driving the spear half its length into the earth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's a steep road by the down, sir," she said in answer to the question about a trap; and then, snatching at an opening, said, "It was there a carriage was upsettled, a year ago and more.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little pink sloth-creature dashed at me, and I gashed down its ugly face with the nail in my stick and in another minute was scrambling up a steep side pathway, a kind of sloping chim-ney, out of the ravine.
-- I ran over the white space and down a steep slope, through a scattered growth of trees, and came to a low-lying stretch of tall reeds, through which I pushed into a dark, thick undergrowth that black and succulent un-der foot.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the branches closed over his head again, and Kala Nag began to go down into the valley not quietly this time, but as a runaway gun goes down a steep bank in one rush.
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：
-- After crossing a low vale, through which a gushing brook meandered, he suddenly ascended a hill, so steep and difficult of ascent, that the sisters were compelled to alight in order to follow.
-- At length the party began slowly to rise a steep and rugged ascent, by a path that curiously wound among rocks and trees, avoiding the one and sup-ported by the other, in a manner that showed it had been devised by men long practised in the arts of the wilderness.
-- He then waved his hand for them to follow, and threw himself down the steep declivity, with free, but careful foot-steps.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After leaving the region of bushes, the party, assisted by resting on each other's shoulders, climbed for about a hundred feet up a steep acclivity and reached a level place, with very few trees, where the soil appeared volcanic.
-- Before taking any rest, he wished to know if it was possible to get round the base of the cone in the case of its sides being too steep and its summit being inaccessible.
-- They perceived by the tranquillity of the sea, in which no shallows troubled the waters, by its uniform color, which was stained by no yellow shades, by the absence of even a reef, that the coast was steep and that the ocean there covered a deep abyss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had a rough time getting to the top, the sides was so steep and the bushes so thick.
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