footing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 立足点， 立场，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：
-- To keep one's footing on the yards must teach a man to hold on firm; and as to managing the reins, and making a horse go through all sorts of movements, that's easily acquired.
-- The farm servants, on equal footing with their master, were already in their places to take their share of the meal.
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：
-- I was standing watching his pursuit with a mixture of admiration for his extraordinary activity and fear lest he should lose his footing in the treacherous mire, when I heard the sound of steps, and turning round found a woman near me upon the path.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were I in any way on a footing with you, you might be offended at my audacity; but who am I, and who are you?
-- But on one occasion he explained seriously to Ga-nia that he was no Jew, that he did nothing dishonest, that he could not help the market price of money, that, thanks to his accurate habits, he had already a good footing and was respected, and that his business was flourishing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I have indicated.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The firmer the woman's footing in society, the worse it is.
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：
-- And we have not spoken of our plans for another reason, that is, because I particularly wanted you to feel on an equal footing when you first meet him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides thatMr. Quinion did what a careless man so occupied, and dealingwith a thing so anomalous, could, to treat me as one upon adifferent footing from the rest, I never said, to man or boy, how itwas that I came to be there, or gave the least indication of beingsorry that I was there.
-- Look at Barclay andPerkins!Look at Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton!It is on thatextensive footing that Mr. Micawber, I know from my ownknowledge of him, is calculated to shine; and the profits, I am told,are e-NOR-mous!But if Mr. Micawber cannot get into those firms,-which decline to answer his letters, when he offers his serviceseven in an inferior capacity- what is the use of dwelling upon thatidea?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unre-serve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection.
-- People of the name of Tupman, very lately settled there, and encumbered with many low connexions, but giving themselves immense airs, and expecting to be on a footing with the old established families.
-- What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit, espionage, and treachery? To come among us with professions of openness and simplicity; and such a league in secret to judge us all! Here have we been, the whole winter and spring, completely duped, fancying ourselves all on an equal footing of truth and honour, with two people in the midst of us who may have been carrying round, comparing and sitting in judgment on sentiments and words that were never meant for both to hear. They must take the conse-quence, if they have heard each other spoken of in a way not perfectly agreeable!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were joined by no stragglers from the village, for the weather was cold and threatening, the way dreary, the footing bad, darkness coming on, and the people had good fires in-doors and were keeping the day.
-- "I mustn't see my gentleman a footing it in the mire of the streets; there mustn't be no mud on his boots.
-- If I had never known him out of Little Britain, and had never enjoyed the privilege of being on a familiar footing at the Castle, I might have doubted him; not so for a moment, knowing him as I did.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the earlier stages of her existence, she was handed down in a literal and prosaic sense; it being almost a part of the entrance footing of every new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college.
-- 'You are coming here on the footing of a friend and companion you know if you will let me take that liberty and I should be ashamed of myself indeed if you could come here upon any other, besides which Arthur Clennam spoke in such terms you are tired my dear.'
-- Whereas, the Sparkler question was on the different footing that any one could see what was going on there, and Little Dorrit saw it and pondered on it with many doubts and wonderings.
-- He felt it his duty to remark (he was sure a gentleman of Mr Sparkler's fine sense would interpret him with all delicacy), that he could not consider this proposal definitely determined on, until he should have had the privilege of holding some correspondence with Mr Merdle; and of ascertaining it to be so far accordant with the views of that eminent gentleman as that his (Mr Dorrit's) daughter would be received on that footing which her station in life and her dowry and expectations warranted him in requiring that she should maintain in what he trusted he might be allowed, without the appearance of being mercenary, to call the Eye of the Great World.
-- 'But not, I hope, to the hum diminution of any other portion, direct or indirect, of the footing you have at present the kindness to occupy in my family.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see on what a footing we are.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary to ascend by zigzags to make the slope more easy, for it was very steep, and the footing being exceedingly precarious required the greatest caution.
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