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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A wall of superb rocks, in an imposing mass, rose before us, a heap of gigantic blocks, an enormous, steep granite shore, forming dark grottos, but which presented no practicable slope; it was the prop of the Island of Crespo.
-- Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live again this ancient life he who wanted no modern one?
-- Here and there sharp points and slender needles rising to a height of 200 feet; further on a steep shore, hewn as it were with an axe and clothed with greyish tints; huge mirrors, reflecting a few rays of sunshine, half drowned in the fog.
-- I directed our steps towards a vast bay cut in the steep granite shore.
-- We followed a narrow pathway running along the summit of the steep shore.
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：
-- He descended the steep hill almost running.
-- It was another mile before they came upon Gudrun and Gerald on the steep up-climb, beside the pink, half-buried shrine.
-- It stood like a rock that had rolled down from the last steep slopes, a rock that had taken the form of a house, and was now half-buried.
-- They grew small in the distance of snow, climbing the steep slope.
-- On his left was a steep slope with black rocks and fallen masses of rock and veins of snow slashing in and about the blackness of rock, veins of snow slashing vaguely in and about the blackness of rock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a little surprised to perceive that the bumping sounds were occasioned by the progress up-stairs of the single gentleman's trunk, which, being nearly twice as wide as the staircase, and exceedingly heavy withal, it was no easy matter for the united exertions of the single gentleman and the coachman to convey up the steep ascent.
-- Up the steep hill too, crowned by the old grey castle, they toiled with rapid steps, and had not once looked behind.
-- They had made no other stoppages, but the weather continued rough, and the roads were often steep and heavy.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He clambered up and down stairs, and went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea, holding on to the walls as he went for support and breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain.
-- Perhaps it was this perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.
-- 15 The Man of the IslandROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.
-- And I had hardly moved before the boat, giving up at once her gentle dancing movement, ran straight down a slope of water so steep that it made me giddy, and struck her nose, with a spout of spray, deep into the side of the next wave.
-- The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the wave.
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