footstep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 脚步(声) ， 足迹，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a great hurry in the streets of people speeding away to get shelter before the storm broke; the wonderful corner for echoes resounded with the echoes of footsteps coming and going, yet not a footstep was there.
-- A footstep in the snow.
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：
-- 'Here is the palpable impression of the footstep of a man,' cried Heyward, bending over the indicated spot; 'he has trod in the margin of this pool, and the mark cannot be mistaken.
-- 'Here is something like the footstep of one who has worn a shoe; can it be that of our friend?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Omer, hearinghis daughter's footstep before I heard it, touched me with his pipe,and shut up one eye as a caution.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And really, I do not think the impression will soon be over,' said Emma, as she crossed the low hedge, and totter-ing footstep which ended the narrow, slippery path through the cottage garden, and brought them into the lane again.
-- Her heart beat quick on hearing Harriet's footstep and voice; so, she supposed, had poor Mrs. Weston felt when she was ap-proaching Randalls.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The light footstep came closer, halting occasionally, as if the walker listened for a sound.
-- Not a footstep or wheel was audible anywhere around, and the dead silence was broken only by a heavy particle falling from a tree through the evergreens and alighting with a smart rap upon the coffin of poor Fanny.
-- A footstep drew near.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer (not yet dressed) heard the rustle of a silk dress and a young woman's light footstep on the stair; some one was going to Goriot's room.
-- The seven people thus assembled bade each other good- morning, and took their places at the table; the clock struck ten, and the student's footstep was heard outside.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sound was curiously flawed by the wind; and I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair.
-- What nervous folly made me start, and awfully connect it with the footstep of my dead sister, matters not.
-- It was past in a moment, and I listened again, and heard the footstep stumble in coming on.
-- At length, one evening when dinner was over and I had dropped into a slumber quite worn out,--for my nights had been agitated and my rest broken by fearful dreams,--I was roused by the welcome footstep on the staircase.
-- I started at every footstep and every sound, believing that he was discovered and taken, and this was the messenger to tell me so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His shuffling footstep coming towards them caused her to retreat to the other end of the room.
-- While the street was empty and silent, Little Dorrit was not afraid; but when she heard a footstep at a distance, or saw a moving shadow among the street lamps, she was startled, and whispered, 'Maggy, I see some one.
-- He had turned into the narrow and steep street from which the court of enclosure wherein the house stood opened, when another footstep turned into it behind him, and so close upon his own that he was jostled to the wall.
-- One day when he might have been some ten or twelve weeks in jail, and when he had been trying to read and had not been able to release even the imaginary people of the book from the Marshalsea, a footstep stopped at his door, and a hand tapped at it.
-- The gentleman of military exterior had so imperfectly awakened Clennam's curiosity, in the existing state of his mind, that a half-forgetfulness of such a visitor's having been referred to, was already creeping over it as a part of the sombre veil which almost always dimmed it now, when a heavy footstep on the stairs aroused him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- hearing the footstep at the door, but not turning round to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a footstep as soft and gentle as the voice, the speaker tripped away.
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