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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could scarcely believe it possible; at two yards and a half below water-mark was a regular rent, in the form of an isosceles triangle.
-- "If such an animal is in existence, if it inhabits the depths of the ocean, if it frequents the strata lying miles below the surface of the water, it must necessarily possess an organisation the strength of which would defy all comparison."
-- At this moment, leaning on the forecastle bulwark, I saw below me Ned Land grappling the martingale in one hand, brandishing his terrible harpoon in the other, scarcely twenty feet from the motionless animal.
-- But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
-- I can understand your rising to the surface; but, diving below the surface, does not your submarine contrivance encounter a pressure, and consequently undergo an upward thrust of one atmosphere for every thirty feet of water, just about fifteen pounds per square inch?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall remember it,' he had no excuse for dwelling on the subject any further, and so took a friendly leave with many expressions of good-will and many compliments to his friend on his looking so remarkably well; and went below stairs to report progress to Mr Brass.
-- In a small dull yard below his window, there was a tree green and flourishing enough, for such a place and as the air stirred among its leaves, it threw a rippling shadow on the white wall.
-- Then, with the aid of a phosphorus-box and some matches, he procured a light and applied it to a spirit-lamp which had a place of its own below the temple; then, he shut down the lids of all the little chambers; then he opened them; and then, by some wonderful and unseen agency, the steak was done, the egg was boiled, the coffee was accurately prepared, and his breakfast was ready.
-- The doctor, who was a red-nosed gentleman with a great bunch of seals dangling below a waistcoat of ribbed black satin, arrived with all speed, and taking his seat by the bedside of poor Nell, drew out his watch, and felt her pulse.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On an elevation to the right were two rows of chairs, also with high backs, reserved for the jury; below these were tables for the attorneys.
-- The driver was a young fellow in a nankeen regulation coat, belted below the waist, sitting sidewise on the box.
-- Fanirin rose, and, projecting his broad, starched front, with remarkable precision of expression began to discuss the errors of the court below in the application of the law on the six points raised, and permitted himself, though briefly, to touch upon the merits of the case and the crying injustice of the decision.
-- The only aim of the courts is to preserve the existing state of things, and for this reason they persecute and kill all those who are above the common level and who wish to raise it as well as those who are below it."
-- For the most part they are the excrescence of society, just as perverted, though in a different manner, as are those criminal types whom you consider below the level of the average."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's presentation below the threshold, you know, diluted presentation."
-- The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.
-- Below was the valley of the Thames, in which the river lay like a band of burnished steel.
-- So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour.
-- The thudding sound of a machine below grew louder and more oppressive.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Farther I could not move her, for the bridge was too low to let me do more than crawl below it.
-- Promptly afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment arose; the window of the captain's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him.
-- "Here, you below there, is it on Bill?"
-- At that another fellow, probably him who had remained below to search the captain's body, came to the door of the inn.
-- Time after time he was ordered below in disgrace.
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