down是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 下； 由大到小prep. 沿着…而下a. 向下的，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bring down my mackintosh and traveling-cloak, and some stout shoes, though we shall do little walking.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She halted at the fork in the grassy road, and the sick man quavered, "Emmy, ye better turn down towards Cincinnati.
-- But it was a bad sign that the Doc should first go down the hall to his bedroom.
-- I want to get down to the bottom of this disease stuff.
-- Now a pancreas is a damp and disgusting thing to find in your new hat, and when the banker did so find one, he threw down the hat and said that the students of Winnemac had gone to the devil.
-- She had often reproved Martin for his inappreciation of Howells, for wearing flannel shirts, and for his failure to hand her down from street-cars in the manner of a fiction hero.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was weighed down by debt, his brother's family was depen-dent on him, he was forced to write at heart-breaking speed, and is said never to have corrected his work.
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
-- As he went down the stairs, he even stopped short, two or three times, as though suddenly struck by some thought.
-- Without stopping to think, Raskolnikov went down the steps at once.
-- He sat down at a sticky little table in a dark and dirty corner; or-dered some beer, and eagerly drank off the first glassful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' 8imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- Consequently theadvertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss- for as to sherry, mypoor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then- and tenyears afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part ofthe country, to fifty members at half a crown a head, the winner tospend five shillings.
-- It is afact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there,that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, atninety-two.
-- Thetwilight was by this time shading down into darkness; and dimlyas they saw each other, they could not have done that without theaid of the fire.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had nestled down his head most conveniently.
-- For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, 'I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
-- Mr. Woodhouse at last was off; but Mr. Knightley, in-stead of being immediately off likewise, sat down again, seemingly inclined for more chat.
-- And so excellent in the Church!Miss Nash has put down all the texts he has ever preached from since he came to Highbury.
-- 'It is one thing,' said she, presently her cheeks in a glow 'to have very good sense in a common way, like every body else, and if there is any thing to say, to sit down and write a letter, and say just what you must, in a short way; and another, to write verses and charades like this.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
-- The handsome girl waited for some time idly in her place, and the only sound heard in the stillness was the hopping of the canary up and down the perches of its prison.
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