tread是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. &vt. 踩， 踏， 践踏，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a much smaller man than the athlete, and doubtless was conscious that he must tread warily.
-- 'Look here, my dear sir,' he began, addressing Ptitsin in a very loud tone of voice; 'if you have really made up your mind to sacrifice an old man your father too or at all events father of your wife an old man who has served his emperor to a wretched little atheist like this, all I can say is, sir, my foot shall cease to tread your floors.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently he came down from his post on the mountain top, and as he strode swiftly onwards the high hills and the forest quaked beneath the tread of his immortal feet.
-- Or as one who yokes broad-browed oxen that they may tread barley in a thresh-ing-floor and it is soon bruised small under the feet of the lowing cattle even so did the horses of Achilles trample on the shields and bodies of the slain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she discovered she could not look for him, for if she did not step carefully she would tread on some poorsoldier.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pupils then entered among themselves upon a competitive examination on the subject of Boots, with the view of ascertaining who could tread the hardest upon whose toes.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chanticleer observ-ing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet's toes.
-- The second prince set out soon afterwards on the same errand; and when he came to the golden road, and his horse had set one foot upon it, he stopped to look at it, and thought it very beautiful, and said to himself, 'What a pity it is that anything should tread here!'
-- 'Tread upon him and kill him,' said the second.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again: because it is a general complaint, that the favou-rites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories; the same doctor proposed, 'that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused.'
-- With 350 Gulliver's Travelstools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the Yahoos draw home the sheaves in carriages, and the ser-vants tread them in certain covered huts to get out the grain, which is kept in stores.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One or two late birds sleepily chirping in their nests, and a bat heavily crossing and recrossing her, and the reek of her own tread in the thick dust that felt like velvet, were all Mrs. Sparsit heard or saw until she very softly closed a gate.
-- He had not been long gone, when she heard a light tread near the door, and knew that some one stood beside her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sound of voices succeeded, and the tread of feet.
-- 'What I envy you, sir, is,' said Mr Rugg, 'allow me to take your hat we are rather short of pegs I'll put it in the corner, nobody will tread on it there What I envy you, sir, is the luxury of your own feelings.
-- The tread and shuffle of feet on the pavement of the yard had much diminished since the taking of the Chair, the tide of Collegians having set strongly in the direction of Harmony.
-- When we went to see the famous leaning tower at Pisa, it was a bright sunny day, and it and the buildings near it looked so old, and the earth and the sky looked so young, and its shadow on the ground was so soft and retired!I could not at first think how beautiful it was, or how curious, but I thought, 'O how many times when the shadow of the wall was falling on our room, and when that weary tread of feet was going up and down the yard O how many times this place was just as quiet and lovely as it is to-day!'
-- He felt that he could leave her with a quiet mind to tread the paths of distinction, and wished but without abatement of patronage, and without prejudice to the retiring virtues of his favourite child that he had such another daughter.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a place like this I'm sure to upset something, tread on people's toes, or do something dreadful, so I keep out of mischief and let Meg sail about.
-- The year is gone, we still unite To joke and laugh and read, And tread the path of literature That doth to glory lead.
-- Her stealthy paws tread the very hall Where Snowball used to play, But she only spits at the dogs our pet So gallantly drove away.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, no, no!ye have not a whole body, sir; do ye but use poor me for your one lost leg; only tread upon me, sir; I ask no more, so I remain a part of ye."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Quicker!or I shall tread upon your heels.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, yes,' says I, 'Friday; God is stronger than the devil - God is above the devil, and therefore we pray to God to tread him down under our feet, and enable us to resist his temptations and quench his fiery darts.'
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