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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAPART ONECHAPTER I.
-- Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots.
-- This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances.
-- Under the impossibility of forming an opinion, I jumped from one extreme to the other.
-- For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sat back from her drawing and looked at Ursula, from under her finely-curved lashes.
-- There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding.
-- Just inside the gate of the school shrubbery, outside the churchyard, Ursula sat down for a moment on the low stone wall under the laurel bushes, to rest.
-- Her colourless hair was untidy, wisps floating down on to her sac coat of dark blue silk, from under her blue silk hat.
-- Even walking up the path to the church, confident as she was that in every respect she stood beyond all vulgar judgment, knowing perfectly that her appearance was complete and perfect, according to the first standards, yet she suffered a torture, under her confidence and her pride, feeling herself exposed to wounds and to mockery and to despite.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A capital fellow!He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
-- The latter had never been under drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it.
-- In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses.
-- Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling to manifestations of mutual kindliness.
-- He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time!Everything's just as it was!'
-- But the beard seemed to melt away as she touched it, and she found herself sitting quietly under a tree while the Gnat (for that was the insect she had been talking to) was balancing itself on a twig just over her head, and fanning her with its wings.
-- 'Well, at any rate it's a great comfort,' she said as she stepped under the trees, 'after being so hot, to get into the into what?'
-- 'I mean to get under the under the under this, you know!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- The captain had risen earlier than usual and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his head.
-- And here, sure enough, is my mate Bill, with a spy-glass under his arm, bless his old 'art, to be sure.
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
-- I do not know how I found the strength to do it at all, and I am afraid it was roughly done, but I managed to drag her down the bank and a little way under the arch.
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