basement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 底层, 地下室，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that listless state he was mooning about the laboratory during elementary bacteriology demonstration hour, when Gottlieb sent him to the basement to bring up six male rabbits for inoculation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Giving him private directions to seek the societyof Mrs. Crupp, and to remove the 'young gal' to the basement also,I abandoned myself to enjoyment.
-- It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen'sbooks, as if we might have kept the basement story paved withbutter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of thatarticle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of this, the great stable of the convent, occupying the basement story and entered by the basement door, outside which all the disorder was, poured forth its contribution of cloud, as if the whole rugged edifice were filled with nothing else, and would collapse as soon as it had emptied itself, leaving the snow to fall upon the bare mountain summit.
-- In this preposterous attitude, unspeakably at variance with his anxious mind, Clennam descended to the basement of the house; finding that wherever it became darker than elsewhere, Flora became heavier, and that when the house was lightest she was too.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, for prudent, most wise, and economic reasons, the blacksmith's shop was in the basement of his dwelling, but with a separate entrance to it; so that always had the young and loving healthy wife listened with no unhappy nervousness, but with vigorous pleasure, to the stout ringing of her young-armed old husband's hammer; whose reverberations, muffled by passing through the floors and walls, came up to her, not unsweetly, in her nursery; and so, to stout Labor's iron lullaby, the blacksmith's infants were rocked to slumber.
-- The blows of the basement hammer every day grew more and more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the last; the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows fell; the forge choked up with cinders; the house was sold; the mother dived down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this particular evening he dined at "Rector's," a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied a basement at Clark and Monroe Streets.
-- said Mrs. Hurstwood, "and only four years ago they had that basement in Madison Street."
-- A shoemaker pegging at his last, a blastman seen through a narrow window in some basement where iron was being melted, a bench-worker seen high aloft in some window, his coat off, his sleeves rolled up; these took her back in fancy to the details of the mill.
-- Hats were all drooping, a group that would ill become a second-hand Hester Street basement collection.
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