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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was motionless for a moment, and then with a noiseless tread began running through the green confusion.
-- I heard the twigs snap and the boughs swish aside before the heavy tread of the Horse-rhi-noceros upon my right.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man was lying on the ground, and I stretched myself not to tread on him, and he slashed up at me.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every few yards as he proceeded he was challenged by the sentinels; but he stalked sullenly onward, utterly disregard-ing the summons of the soldiers, who only spared his life because they knew the air and tread no less than the obsti-nate daring of an Indian.
-- Though the tread which had left the mark had been light and rapid, it was still plain-ly visible.
-- 'That's a trail that nothing but a nose can follow,' said the satisfied scout, looking back along their difficult way; 'grass is a treacherous carpet for a flying party to tread on, but wood and stone take no print from a moccasin.
-- At length one whose hair was beginning to be sprinkled with gray, but whose sinewy limbs and firm tread an-nounced that he was still equal to the duties of manhood, advanced out of the gloom of a corner, whither he had prob-ably posted himself to make his observations unseen, and spoke.
-- Uncas moved with a slow and dignified tread toward the post, which he immediately commenced encircling with a measured step, not unlike an ancient dance, rais-ing his voice, at the same time, in the wild and irregular chant of his war song.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the left.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- It was yet early, and the old man being still asleep, she walked out into the churchyard, brushing the dew from the long grass with her feet, and often turning aside into places where it grew longer than in others, that she might not tread upon the graves.
-- She was still ruminating upon his curious behaviour, when the floor of the crazy stairs and landing cracked beneath the tread of the other travellers who were passing to their beds.
-- While they were thus engaged, the lady of the caravan alighted on the earth, and with her hands clasped behind her, and her large bonnet trembling excessively, walked up and down in a measured tread and very stately manner, surveying the caravan from time to time with an air of calm delight, and deriving particular gratification from the red panels and the brass knocker.
-- In this, however, he was mistaken; for, after the knock had been repeated with increased impatience, the door was opened, and somebody with a very heavy tread went up the stairs and into the room above.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, sir," said the Captain, "and if I do not hesitate to tread this South Pole, it is because, up to this time, no human being has left a trace there."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She suffered torments hearing his firm tread going so distinctly down the road.
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