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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, 'I will at any rate give you good coun-sel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.'
-- And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, 'Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.'
-- So he said, 'Yes,' and forgot the fox's counsel, and sat down on the side of the river; and while he suspect-ed nothing, they came behind, and threw him down the bank, and took the princess, the horse, and the bird, and went home to the king their master, and said.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
-- Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock.
-- I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remembered to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just day-light.
-- I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner.
-- At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave me excessive pain, I a little loosened the strings that tied down my hair on the left side, so that I was just able to turn my head about two inches.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bitzer, after rapidly blinking at Thomas Gradgrind with both eyes at once, and so catching the light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antenn脙娄 of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead, and sat down again.
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality in fact?
-- You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls.
-- Not the least disguise toned down or shaded off that uncompromising fact in the landscape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had scarcely time to put down the wretched documents before my uncle was by my side.
-- The very idea of going down to the centre of the earth was simply absurd.
-- Take down the third atlas from the second shelf, series Z, plate 4."
-- At length, however, we went on board, and at half past ten were steaming down the Great Belt.
-- remarked my uncle as we sat down to a late breakfast; "refresh yourself, my boy, and we will take a run through the town."
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：
-- The war had brought the roof down over her head.
-- Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war; and himself being so safe and patriotic; but, also, spending more money on his country than he'd got.
-- When Miss Chatterley Emma came down to London from the Midlands to do some nursing work, she was very witty in a quiet way about Sir Geoffrey and his determined patriotism.
-- He was remotely interested; but like a man looking down a microscope, or up a telescope.
-- Nevertheless Michaelis had his apartment in Mayfair, and walked down Bond Street the image of a gentleman, for you cannot get even the best tailors to cut their low-down customers, when the customers pay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was waiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation.
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