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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was all so much easier, now that he was partly freed from the tyrannical honesty of Gottliebism, from the unswerving quest for causes which, as it drove through layer below layer, seemed ever farther from the bottommost principles, from the intolerable strain of learning day by day how much he did not know.
-- Once when Dr. Loizeau, professor of surgery, had operated before a clinic which included several renowned visiting doctors--the small white figure of the surgeon below them, slashing between life and death, dramatic as a great actor taking his curtain-call--Martin came away certain that he was for surgery.
-- But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory, for the thrill of uncharted discoveries, the quest below the surface and beyond the moment, the search for fundamental laws which the scientist (however blasphemously and colloquially he may describe it) exalts above temporary healing as the religious exalts the nature and terrible glory of God above pleasant daily virtues.
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：
-- At the top, under a white sheet, was a coat of red bro-cade lined with hareskin; under it was a silk dress, then a shawl and it seemed as though there was nothing below but clothes.
-- Through the crack 芒聙娄' They were already at the foot of the last flight of stairs, at the level of the landlady's door, and they could, as a fact, see from below that there was a light in Raskolnikov's garret.
-- He was rushing away, but the passage was full of people, the doors of the flats stood open and on the landing, on the stairs and everywhere below there were people, rows of heads, all looking, but huddled together in silence and expecta-tion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I amso frightened that they are afterwards obliged to take me out ofbed, and show me the quiet churchyard out of the bedroomwindow, with the dead all lying in their graves at rest, below thesolemn moon.
-- The captain himself was in the lastextremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, oldbrown great-coat with no other coat below it.
-- Though his face was towards me, I thought, for some time, thewriting being between us, that he could not see me; but lookingthat way more attentively, it made me uncomfortable to observethat every now and then, his sleepless eyes would come below thewriting, like two red suns, and stealthily stare at me for I dare say awhole minute at a time, during which his pen went, or pretendedto go, as cleverly as ever.
-- I am the head-boy, now!I look down on the line of boys below me,with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mindthe boy I was myself, when I first came there.
-- It was not until wehad rung three or four times that we could prevail on Mrs. Cruppto communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stoutlady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a farmer can need none of my help, and is, therefore, in one sense, as much above my notice as in every other he is below it.'
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
-- But that he should talk of encouragement, should con-sider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! should suppose him-self her equal in connexion or mind! look down upon her friend, so well understanding the gradations of rank below him, and be so blind to what rose above, as to fancy himself shewing no presumption in addressing her! It was most provoking.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henery appeared in a drab kerseymere great-coat, buttoned over his smock-frock, the white skirts of the latter being visible to the distance of about a foot below the coat-tails, which, when you got used to the style of dress, looked natural enough, and even ornamental it certainly was comfortable.
-- Hence, whilst he sometimes reached the brilliant in speech because that was spontaneous, he fell below the commonplace in action, from inability to guide incipient effort.
-- Going down into the kitchen of the inn, the floor of which was a step below the passage, which in its turn was a step below the road outside, what should Joseph see to gladden his eyes but two copper-coloured discs, in the form of the countenances of Mr. Jan Coggan and Mr. Mark Clark.
-- In a few minutes she noticed the fat red nape of Coggan's neck among those standing just below her, and Joseph Poorgrass's saintly profile a little further on.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was just in the doorway of his room when a strange sound from the staircase below reached his ears; it might have been made by two men coming up in list slippers.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Below this picture was a miniature of William; and 85my tears flowed when I looked upon it.
-- The course of the Rhine below 187Mainz becomes much more picturesque.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was now below the horizon and the red glow at the rimof the world faded into pink.
-- ButFairhill was a difficult plantation to manage and spare time hard to get, and more often than not Nellie walked up anddown riderless hour after hour, while Beatrice Tarleton went through the day with the skirt of her habit absently loopedover her arm and six inches of shining boot showing below it.
-- The wide hall which ran from front to back of the house wasswarming with people, and as the O'Hara carriage drew up at the front steps, Scarlett saw girls in crinolines, bright asbutterflies, going up and coming down the stairs from the second floor, arms about each other's waists, stopping tolean over the delicate handrail of the banisters, laughing and calling to young men in the hall below them.
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