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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is the pass of Antuco, on the slope of the volcano, in latitude, 37 degrees 30' , or, in other words, only half a degree out of our way."
-- CHAPTER XIV PROVIDENTIALLY RESCUEDTHE eastern side of the Cordilleras of the Andes consists of a succession of lengthened declivities, which slope down almost insensibly to the plain.
-- Between the 22d and 42d degrees the Argentine soil slopes eastward, and all the travelers had to do was to follow the slope right down to the sea.
-- Fortunately a vigorous effort drove the wagon toward the opposite shore, and the bank began to slope upward, so that the horses and bullocks were able to regain their footing, and soon the whole party found themselves on the other side, glad enough, though wet enough too.
-- A few unrecognizable bodies lay on the slope of the embankment, but from that blazing mass no living thing could be saved.
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：
-- The whole steep slope was covered with gray circular rings of stone, a score of them at least.
-- Together we made our way down the precipitous slope and approached the body, black and clear against the sil-vered stones.
-- Looking back we saw the figure moving slowly away over the broad moor, and behind him that one black smudge on the silvered slope which showed where the man was lying who had come so horribly to his end.
-- Then he came swiftly along the path, passed close to where we lay, and went on up the long slope behind us.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hector, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honoured by the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor, Polybus, Agenor, and young Acamas beauteous as a god.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then with a rustle a rabbit emerged, and went scampering up the slope before me.
-- I gave one more look into the blue shadows that had swallowed up this odd creature, and then retraced my way down the slope towards the stream, going as I judged in the direction from which I had come.
-- Beyond, the rock opened again upon a gradual slope of sunlit greenery, and on either hand the light smote down through narrow ways into the central gloom.
-- I was on the slope above the bushes; Montgomery and Moreau beat along the beach beneath.
-- Turn-ing, I pushed my way out of the crowding Beast People and went on alone up the slope towards the higher part of the headland.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will go to the west wall,' Kaa whispered, 'and come down swiftly with the slope of the ground in my favor.
-- The Black Panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound and was striking he knew better than to waste time in biting right and left among the monkeys, who were seated round Mowgli in circles fifty and sixty deep.
-- If the beach was good and hard, with a slope behind it for seals to play on, there was always the smoke of a whaler on the horizon, boiling down blubber, and Kotick knew what that meant.
-- He held on savagely, and stuck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot, moist earth.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water, bordered by high trees, between which, peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be a very fine object from many parts of the park, and the flower-garden will slope down just before it, and be exceedingly pretty.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XXXIII WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY--THE SLOPE OF THE YEARS The immediate result of this was nothing.
-- There was no apparent slope downward, and distinctly none upward, so far as the casual observer might have seen.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feel-ing our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.
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