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在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little sauce-16 Sons and Loverspan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob.
-- Nobody under the bed; nobody in the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall.
-- But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.
-- When everybody had retired but the two pren-tices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds; which were under a counter in the back-shop.
-- The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form; but though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light, which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.
-- Not one of the three could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hid-den under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes of the body, of his two companions.
-- They had a sinister expression, under an old cocked-hat like a three-cornered spittoon, and over a great muffler for the chin and throat, which descended nearly to the wearer's knees.
-- But, though the bank was almost always with him, and though the coach (in a confused way, like the presence of pain under an opiate) was always with him, there was an-other current of impression that never ceased to run, all through the night.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the win-dows, cried out, 'Oh!How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes!What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!'
-- I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue.
-- At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was ex-actly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.
-- But sud-denly it occurred to him that he might stoop down under the table, and then creep unobserved out of the door.
-- 'I must do something in time: under such circumstances a Russian bath might do me good.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the officials sitting on the further side under the portrait of the Tsar and the eagle, delighted at any distraction, looked round at the door; but the doorkeeper standing at the door at once drove out the intruder, and closed the glass door after him.
-- Excuse me a minute..." A secretary came in, with respectful familiarity and the modest consciousness, characteristic of every secretary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some papers, and began, under pretense of asking a question, to explain some objection.
-- All the members of that family, especially the feminine half, were pictured by him, as it were, wrapped about with a mysterious poetical veil, and he not only perceived no defects whatever in them, but under the poetical veil that shrouded them he assumed the existence of the loftiest sentiments and every possible perfection.
-- Levin sat down to wait till the professor should go, but he soon began to get interested in the subject under discussion.
-- And Sergey Ivanovitch took a note from under a paper-weight and handed it to his brother.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, the house in Saville Row, which must have been a very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, was cosiness, comfort, and method idealised.
-- "Heaven preserve me!But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible."
-- As for his antagonists, they seemed much agitated; not so much by the value of their stake, as because they had some scruples about betting under conditions so difficult to their friend.
-- Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways.
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