below是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…下面， 在…以下ad. 在下面， 向下，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian pur-poses; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
-- Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a pent-house roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remained on the step, half in the coach and half out of; they re-mained in the road below him.
-- But, madame sat all day at her counter, so expressly unconscious of him, and so particularly determined not to perceive that his being there had any connection with anything below the surface, that he shook in his wooden 245shoes whenever his eye lighted on her.
-- Reddening the snowy streets with the prevailing Republican colour, in winding and tramping through them, as they had red-dened them below the snow with a deeper dye, they carried him thus into the courtyard of the building where he lived.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor 'as seen in the town of Cologne,' which was to be read below in bright letters.
-- Within, down it sunk per-pendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass Of water.
-- He got the Galoshes, and he was soon below in a little duodecimo garden, where between two immense walls a plumtree and an apple-tree were standing.
-- 'You had better lay the cloth below in the stable,' said one of the travellers; 'there, at all events, one knows what one is breathing.'
-- His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Levin's face, with his scowling brows, and his kind eyes looking out in dark dejection below them, as he stood listening to her father, and glancing at her and at Vronsky.
-- He stood, listened, and gazed sometimes down at the wet mossy ground, sometimes at Laska listening all alert, sometimes at the sea of bare tree tops that stretched on the slope below him, sometimes at the darkening sky, covered with white streaks of cloud.
-- The snipe had ceased flying; but Levin resolved to stay a little longer, till Venus, which he saw below a branch if birch, should be above it, and the stars of the Great Bear should be perfectly plain.
-- He was dressed in a long-skirted blue coat, with buttons below the waist at the back, and wore high boots wrinkled over the ankles and straight over the calf, with big galoshes drawn over them.
-- A dry-looking Englishman, in high boots and a short jacket, clean-shaven, except for a tuft below his chin, came to meet him, walking with the uncouth gait of jockey, turning his elbows out and swaying from side to side.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Below deck was a square cabin, of which the walls bulged out in the form of cots, above a circular divan; in the centre was a table provided with a swinging lamp.
-- To compare her speed to four times that of a locomotive going on full steam would be below the truth.
-- The last ranks of the herd were now passing over the rails, while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon.
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
-- An instant after, Mr. Fogg and the American, whose name was Mudge, entered a hut built just below the fort.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin found himself in a confusion of little chairs and vast gilded arches, of polite but disapproving ladies with programs in their laps, unromantic musicians making unpleasant noises below and, at last, incomprehensible beauty, which made for him pictures of hills and deep forests, then suddenly became achingly long- winded.
-- "To go far below the surface of this matter into the fundamental philosophy and esthetics of office- furnishing for the doctor, there are today two warring schools, the Tapestry School and the Aseptic School, if I may venture to so denominate and conveniently distinguish them.
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