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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occupied thus, with eyes stretched afar, Oak gradually perceived that what he had previously taken to be a star low down behind the outskirts of the plantation was in reality no such thing.
-- Oak stepped up behind, where, leaning down upon the roof and putting his eye close to a hole, he could see into the interior clearly.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- A Parisian straying into a suburb apparently composed of lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudgery.
-- Every one came down in dressing-gown and slippers, and the conversation usually turned on anything that had happened the evening before; comments on the dress or appearance of the dinner contingent were exchanged in friendly confidence.
-- Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot's installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.
-- "And in other respects, I am quite his equal," she said to herself, turning as if to assure herself of the charms of a form that the portly Sylvie found moulded in down feathers every morning.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.
-- She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
-- So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of sev-eral books treating of natural philosophy which he desired 43me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to com-mence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M. Waldman, a fellow profes-sor, would lecture upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted.
-- I took refuge in the courtyard be-59longing to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fear-ing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees thatwere solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
-- The more sedate andolder sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack ofthe niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.
-- The big brute he's a grand horse, Scarlett; you must tell your pa to comeover and see him right away he'd already bitten a hunk out of his groom on the way down here and he'd trampledtwo of Ma's darkies who met the train at Jonesboro.
-- When we got home, Ma was out in the stable with a sackful of sugarsmoothing him down and doing it mighty well, too.
-- The rolling foothillcountry of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the riverbottoms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
-- And looked down at his leg.
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
-- Therefore I resolved to put my hunk of bread and butter down the leg of my trousers.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
-- 'Lie down and go to sleep; I will work for you.'
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