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在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.
-- The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew 24 Grimms' Fairy Talesup to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his cus-tom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.
-- Then he came at last to the palace, and there in the court lay the dogs asleep; and the horses were standing in the stables; and on the roof sat the pigeons fast asleep, with their heads under their wings.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue; and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his maj-esty in council that I must be conveyed.
-- I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame.
-- In the mean time the emperor held frequent councils, to debate what course should be taken with me; and I was af- 29terwards assured by a particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as much in the secret as any, that the court was under many difficulties concerning me.
-- He then commanded his general (who was an old ex-perienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums 43beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.
-- 'Jupe sent his daughter out on an errand not an hour ago, and then was seen to slip out himself, with his hat over his eyes, and a bundle tied up in a handkerchief under his arm.
-- Going to have him under my wing, ma'am.'
-- Body number four, under dreary pretences of being droll (when it was very melancholy indeed), made the shallowest pretences of concealing pitfalls of knowledge, into which it was the duty of these babies to be smuggled and inveigled.
-- 'I wish I could collect all the Facts we hear so much about,' said Tom, spitefully setting his teeth, 'and all the Figures, and all the people who found them out: and I wish I could put a thousand barrels of gunpowder under them, and blow them all up together!However, when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have my revenge.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT CHAPTER 21 UNDER THE OCEAN CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND CHAPTER 23 ALONE CHAPTER 24 LOST!
-- Being very much attached to his fatherless nephew, he invited me to study under him in his home in the fatherland.
-- Under the influence of hunger this reas oning appeared admirable.
-- He looked at me from under his spectacles, and started at the odd expression of my face.
-- In the first instance we crossed some narrow streets, where we met numerous groups of galley slaves, with particolored trousers, grey and yellow, working under the orders and the sticks of severe taskmasters, and finally reached the Vor-Frelser's-Kirk.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young men with whom they talked so passionately and sang so lustily and camped under the trees in such freedom wanted, of course, the love connexion.
-- The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits...Protagoras, or whoever it was!And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray!I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks.
-- The cronies had such a curious pomposity under their assumed modesty.
-- And she did feel the peculiar, withering coldness under it all; like the soil of Lab-rador, which his gay little flowers on its surface, and a foot down is frozen.
-- Only she began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble, detestable as false teeth, which stuck up on the hill-side, under Tevershall church, and which she saw with such grim painfulness from the park.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes.
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