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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, Professor; but more fortunate than you, I was able to find a footing almost directly upon a floating island."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To have gained a footing on the wall and tried to look in from above, would have been attended with some danger certainly with some noise, and the chance of terrifying the child, if that really were her habitation.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made good their footing inside our defences, while from the shelter of the woods seven or eight men, each evidently supplied with several muskets, kept up a hot though useless fire on the log-house.
-- From time to time, indeed, I had to lend him a hand, or he must have missed his footing and fallen backward down the hill.
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