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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Children of Captain GrantINTRODUCTION TO VOLUME FOURTHE three books gathered under the title "In Search of the Castaways" occupied much of Verne's attention during the three years following 1865.
-- The characters used in these books were afterwards reintroduced in "The Mysterious Island," which was in its turn a sequel to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- The vast assembly dispersed under the influence of deep emotion, and at ten o'clock the passengers and crew returned on board the vessel.
-- "Monsieur Jacques Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, after a brief pause, "that would certainly be a grand achievement, and you would confer a great boon on science, but I should not like to allow you to be laboring under a mistake any longer, and I must tell you, therefore, that for the present at least, you must give up the pleasure of a visit to India."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
-- So your grave, middle-aged family prac-titioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.'
-- It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeo-man who held lands near the Baskerville estate.
-- At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man, for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the Hall and her father's farm.
-- We had risen to depart when Baskerville gave a cry, of triumph, and diving into one of the corners of the room he drew a brown boot from under a cabinet.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment the study door opened, and a military man, with a portfolio under his arm, came out talking loud-ly, and after bidding good-bye to someone inside, took his departure.
-- Her eyes show it those two bones there, the little points under her eyes, just where the cheek begins.
-- It is true that her nature sometimes rebelled against these dictates of reason, and that she grew yearly more capricious and impatient; but having a respectful and well-disciplined husband under her thumb at all times, she found it possible, as a rule, to empty any little accumulations of spleen upon his head, and therefore the harmony of the family was kept duly balanced, and things went as smoothly as family mat-ters can.
-- ; in fact, all that would naturally be said under the cir-cumstances.
-- Very little was said her modesty seemed to suffer under the infliction of discussing such a question.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?
-- Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third.
-- You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has more people under him.
-- Thetis was not un-mindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges.
-- She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying: 'Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic aid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost 脙漏clat.
-- Whatever he is, you can't get rid of him under the week.
-- Then the finer end of Fearenside's whip reached his property, and the dog, yelping with dismay, retreated under the wheels of the waggon.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a minute or two, the same voice cried: "Get under the window and hold out your hat!"
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