slope是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 斜线, 斜度; 倾斜面, 斜坡，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers.
-- And up the slope into the old church went all the kings and queens of Denmark, hand in hand, all with their golden crowns; and the organ played and the fountains rustled.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood, listened, and gazed sometimes down at the wet mossy ground, sometimes at Laska listening all alert, sometimes at the sea of bare tree tops that stretched on the slope below him, sometimes at the darkening sky, covered with white streaks of cloud.
-- Her face was hidden by a veil, but he drank in with glad eyes the special movement in walking, peculiar to her alone, the slope of the shoulders, and the setting of the head, and at once a sort of electric shock ran all over him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noted that Madeline was not only a rare and understanding spirit but also an extraordinarily desirable woman--fresh color, tender eyes, adorable slope from shoulder to side.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To-night these trees sheltered the southern slope from the keenest blasts, which smote the wood and floundered through it with a sound as of grumbling, or gushed over its crowning boughs in a weakened moan.
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
-- A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.
-- The sergeant brought his hand to the cap on the slope of his head, saluted, and returned to the distant group of haymakers.
-- Standing in the centre, the sky overhead was met by a circular horizon of fern: this grew nearly to the bottom of the slope and then abruptly ceased.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- JohnWilkes always held his barbecues there, on the gentle slope leading down to the rose garden, a pleasant shady placeand a far pleasanter place, for instance, than that used by the Calverts.
-- The slope had always seemed so slight, sogradual, in days when she galloped up it on her fleet-footed mare.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the understanding was, that he was to take us to the village of Stapi, situated on the southern slope of the peninsula of Sneffels, at the very foot of the volcano.
-- The mighty whirlwind of sand was spreading up the slope of the mountain to the very spot where we had proposed to halt.
-- The bottom of the funnel-shaped hollow was about five hundred feet in circumference, by which it will be seen that the slope from the summit to the bottom was very gradual, and we were therefore clearly able to get there without much fatigue or difficulty.
-- On the eighth, however, at twelve o'clock in the day, the fissure suddenly assumed a much more gentle slope still trending in a southeast direction.
-- The slope was very rapid and rather difficult.
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：
-- Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrow-ing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.
-- Clifford steered cautiously down the slope of the knoll from the hall, and Connie kept her hand on the chair.
-- And the longish slope of her haunches and her buttocks had lost its gleam and its sense of richness.
-- And softly, with that marvellous swoon-like caress of his hand in pure soft desire, softly he stroked the silky slope of her loins, down, down between her soft warm buttocks, coming nearer and nearer to the very quick of her.
-- She found Clifford slowly mounting to the spring, which was halfway up the slope of the dark larch-wood.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top.
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