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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from it he began to produce bottles little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white- glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf everywhere.
-- When she took in his tea she saw broken glass in the corner of the room under the concave mirror, and a golden stain that had been carelessly wiped.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water.
-- Farther under the star-board bulwark were some big hutches containing a number of rabbits, and a solitary llama was squeezed in a mere box of a cage forward.
-- We went past the steersman to the taff-rail, and saw the water come foaming under the stern and the bubbles go dancing and vanishing in her wake.
-- The black-faced man, howling in a singular voice rolled about under the feet of the dogs.
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
-- 'Ay, roar well,' said Bagheera, under his whiskers, 'for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.'
-- 'Little Brother,' said he, 'feel under my jaw.'
-- Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera's silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
-- 'I did not know these things,' said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.
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：
-- In this manner does the mother country absorb even the fame, under that system of rule.
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
-- For many minutes the intricacy of the route admit-ted of no further dialogue; after which they emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along the line of the highway, and entered under the high but dark arches of the forest.
-- 'But you speak of instruction, and of a profession; are you an adjunct to the provincial corps, as a master of the noble science of defense and of-fense; or, perhaps, you are one who draws lines and angles, under the pretense of expounding the mathematics?'
-- 'The man is, most manifestly, a disciple of Apollo,' cried the amused Alice, 'and I take him under my own especial protection.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, the place still con-tinues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
-- Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swal-lows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; an rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watch-ing the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
-- In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its giz- zard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if crav- ing that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
-- Under this were hung flails, har- ness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
-- Under cover of his character of sing-ing-master, he made frequent visits at the farmhouse; not that he had anything to apprehend from the meddlesome interference of parents, which is so often a stumbling-block in the path of lovers.
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：
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
-- Then it was a distinction to be under forty, but now to be more than twenty-five is absurd.
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