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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When her eye caught his, hesmiled, showing animal-white teeth below a close-clipped black mustache.
-- Andevery day the trains just below Five Points disgorged more sick and more wounded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a wonderful equipage, with six great coronets outside, and ragged things behind for I don't know how many footmen to hold on by, and a harrow below them, to prevent amateur footmen from yielding to the temptation.
-- "Yes, perhaps I ought to mention," said Herbert, who had become curiously crestfallen and meek, since we entered on the interesting theme, "that she is rather below my mother's nonsensical family notions.
-- For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average.
-- Whoever was below had stopped on seeing my lamp, for all was quiet.
-- All that water-side region of the upper and lower Pool below Bridge was unknown ground to me; and when I struck down by the river, I found that the spot I wanted was not where I had supposed it to be, and was anything but easy to find.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
-- They believed no otherwise than that it was the peasant who was saying this, and answered: 'That is what we intend, but first you shall look about you a little down below there,' and they rolled the barrel down into the water.
-- When she was below she fetched herself a chair, and set it before the barrel so that she had no need to stoop, and did not hurt her back or do herself any unexpected injury.
-- They are bewitched, and are obliged to watch over a great treasure which is below in the tower, and they 248 Grimms' Fairy Talescan have no rest until it is taken away, and I have likewise learnt, from their discourse, how that is to be done.'
-- And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they moved backwards and forwards, he thought to himself: 'If you shiver below by the fire, how those up above must freeze and suffer!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They made me a sign that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying aloud, Borach mevolah; and when they saw the vessels in the air, there was a universal shout of Hekinah degul.
-- I took up twenty waiters in my hand, and placed them on the table: a hundred more attended below on the ground, some with dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other li-quors slung on their shoulders; all which the waiters above drew up, as I wanted, in a very ingenious manner, by certain 73cords, as we draw the bucket up a well in Europe.
-- below par; that I had cost his 74 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty above a million and a half of sprugs' (their great-est gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) 'and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.'
-- Neither, indeed, could I forbear smiling at myself, when the queen used to place me upon her hand towards a looking-glass, by which both our persons appeared before me in full view together; and there could be nothing more ridiculous than the comparison; so that I really began to imagine my-self dwindled many degrees below my usual size.
-- I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me; for I thought it below me to cry out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an instant what he stood on fell below him, and he was gone.
-- You are altogether backward, and below the mark.'
-- In many great respects he was essentially below them.
-- Not a grain of anger with them was in his heart; he knew them, far below their surface weaknesses and misconceptions, as no one but their fellow-labourer could.
-- There was the lady who had once kept Mr. Bounderby's house, sitting at the first-floor window as he had seen her before; and there was the light porter, sometimes talking with her there, and sometimes looking over the blind below which had Bank upon it, and sometimes coming to the door and standing on the steps for a breath of air.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT CHAPTER 21 UNDER THE OCEAN CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND CHAPTER 23 ALONE CHAPTER 24 LOST!
-- Follow the direction of one of its innumerable fjords or arms of the sea, and what do you see below the sixty-fifth degree of latitude?"
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