under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； 少于，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCEThe circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The University has a baseball field under glass; its buildings are measured by the mile; it hires hundreds of young Doctors of Philosophy to give rapid instruction in Sanskrit, navigation, accountancy, spectacle-fitting, sanitary engineering, Provencal poetry, tariff schedules, rutabaga-growing, motor-car designing, the history of Voronezh, the style of Matthew Arnold, the diagnosis of myohypertrophia kymoparalytica, and department- store advertising.
-- Under his training she would learn the distinction between vague "ideals" and the hard sureness of science.
-- How many cases did you have under identical conditions, and how many of them did not get the treatment?"
-- It seemed natural to tuck her hand under his arm as they left the hospital.
-- It did not matter to him how clumsily her honey-colored hair was tucked under her black hat, a characterless little mushroom of a hat, but he did see and resent the contrast between her shirtwaist, with the third button missing, her checked skirt, her unfortunate bright brown bolero jacket, and Madeline's sleekness of blue serge.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under Nicholas I.
-- His garret was under the roof of a high, five-sto-ried house and was more like a cupboard than a room.
-- Often he went to sleep on it, as he was, without undressing, without sheets, wrapped in his old student's overcoat, with his head on one little pillow, under which he heaped up all the linen he had, clean and dirty, by way of a bolster.
-- In short, in spite of the kind and generous behaviour of Marfa Petrovna, Mr. Svidriga脙炉lov's wife, and all the rest of the household, Dounia had a very hard time, especially when Mr. Svidriga-脙炉lov, relapsing into his old regimental habits, was under the influence of Bacchus.
-- Would you believe that the crazy fellow had conceived a passion for Dounia from the beginning, but had concealed it under a show of rudeness and con-tempt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young motherto be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under hisarm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turneddown lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand,and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boatbuilders' yards,shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers'lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we cameout upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; whenHam said'Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!'
-- We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfastglowing with health and pleasure.
-- I soon found out that Mrs. Gummidge did not always make herselfso agreeable as she might have been expected to do, under thecircumstances of her residence with Mr. Peggotty.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
-- She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
-- She inherits her moth-er's talents, and must have been under subjection to her.'
-- I thought but I beg your pardon, perhaps I have been under a mistake.
-- You blush, Harriet. Does any body else occur to you at this moment under such a definition?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
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