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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, as for Robert," said the captain, "whenever he is not poking about down below in the engine-room, he is perched somewhere aloft among the rigging.
-- Lady Helena could not go on shore as she had purposed; indeed, even coaling was a difficult business, and the passengers had to content themselves below the poop as best they might.
-- Ten people could easily find room in it, and though the walls might be none too water-tight in the rainy season, at this time of the year, at any rate, it was sufficient protection against the intense cold, which, according to the thermometer, was ten degrees below zero.
-- There surely must be a storm raging down below at the foot of the mountains.
-- The trembling had ceased, though there was little doubt the forces below the surface were carrying on their devastating work further on, for shocks of earthquake are always occurring in some part or other of the Andes.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the head was written: 'Baskerville Hall,' and below in large, scrawling figures: '1742.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not knowing that it was a fit, and seeing his victim disappear head foremost into the darkness, hearing his head strike the stone steps below with a crash, Rogojin rushed downstairs, skirting the body, and flung himself headlong out of the hotel, like a raving madman.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Father Jove,' he cried, 'that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, wit-ness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
-- He prayed that no son of mine might ever sit upon knees and the gods, Jove of the world below and awful Proserpine, fulfilled his curse.
-- When they were close up with one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamas hit him on the girdle below the cuirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm; the girdle, however, was not pierced, nor nearly so, for the point of the spear struck against the silver and was turned aside as though it had been lead: King Agamemnon caught it from his hand, and drew it towards him with the fury of a lion; he then drew his sword, and killed Iphidamas by striking him on the neck.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When these thoughts were over, my head was for some time taken up in considering the nature of these wretched creatures, I mean the savages, and how it came to pass in the world that the wise Governor of all things should give up any of His creatures to such inhumanity - nay, to some-thing so much below even brutality itself - as to devour its own kind: but as this ended in some (at that time) fruit-less speculations, it occurred to me to inquire what part of the world these wretches lived in?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And just then I could not hear any more, for my cousin called from below to tell me Mrs. Richardson was come in her coach, and would take one of us to Kensington Gardens; so I was forced to go into the room and interrupt them, to ask Lucy if she would like to go, but she did not care to leave Edward; so I just run up stairs and put on a pair of silk stockings and came off with the Richardsons."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie saw at once that an average speed was necessary or the work would pile up on her and all those below would be delayed.
-- He kept a horse and neat trap, had his wife and two children, who were well established in a neat house on the North Side near Lincoln Park, and was altogether a very acceptable individual of our great American upper class--the first grade below the luxuriously rich.
-- Chapter IX CONVENTION'S OWN TINDER-BOX--THE EYE THAT IS GREEN Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick building of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the first floor sunk a very little below the level of the street.
-- As she contemplated her new state, the strain from the parlour below stole upward.
-- He drew near this lily, which had sucked its waxen beauty and perfume from below a depth of waters which he had never penetrated, and out of ooze and mould which he could not understand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I says look at my hat if you call it a hat but the lid raises up and the rest of it goes down till it's below my chin, and then it ain't rightly a hat at all, but more like my head was shoved up through a jint o' stove- pipe.
-- Then I took up the pig and held him to my breast with my jacket (so he couldn't drip) till I got a good piece below the house and then dumped him into the river.
-- He dropped below me with the current, and by and by he came a-swinging up shore in the easy water, and he went by so close I could a reached out the gun and touched him.
-- I was away below the ferry now.
-- When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he reached it, he looked into the valley far below him and there he saw the wood where unluckily he had met the Fox and the Cat, and the tall oak tree where he had been hanged; but though he searched far and near, he could not see the house where the Fairy with the Azure Hair lived.
-- The Marionette looked to see what was below them.
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