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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not even a pebble recently displaced; not a trace on the sand; not a human footstep on all that part of the beach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough.
-- Hark!A footstep on the stairs, and now the door was slowly opening.
-- Angel hands have strewn the ground deep with snow, that the lightest footstep may be lighter yet; and the very birds are dead, that they may not wake her.
-- I often tried to track the way she had gone, but her small footstep left no print upon the dewy ground, to guide me.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A more elastic footstep entered next; and now I opened my mouth for a 'good morning,' but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison SOTTO VOCE, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummaged a corner for a spade or shovel to dig through the drifts.
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：
-- The sticks were removed, and the stones lifted; for Indian cunning was known frequently to adopt these objects as covers, laboring with the utmost patience and industry, to conceal each footstep as they proceeded.
-- Yet that is not the footstep of an Indian!the weight is too much on the heel, and the toes are squared, as though one of the French dancers had been in, pigeon-winging his tribe!Run back, Uncas, and bring me the size of the singer's foot.
-- The measurements agreed, and the former un-hesitatingly pronounced that the footstep was that of David, who had once more been made to exchange his shoes for moccasins.
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