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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The file of papers for the year 1862 was soon brought, and John began to turn over the leaves rapidly, running down each page with his eye in search of the name required.
-- It was Mary Grant who poured out her heart to God in prayer for her benefactors, while grateful happy tears streamed down her cheeks, and almost choked her utterance.
-- "Oh, as for Robert," said the captain, "whenever he is not poking about down below in the engine-room, he is perched somewhere aloft among the rigging.
-- "Well, really," said Lady Glenarvan, "you are so proud of your yacht that you make me wish to look all over it; and I should like to go down and see how our brave men are lodged."
-- At last the poor fellow shrugged his shoulders, pushed down his spectacles over his nose and said:"You are joking."
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：
-- Then with an expression of in-terest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a convex lens.
-- From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name.
-- Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light and read in a high, cracking voice the following curious, old-world narrative: 'Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth.
-- So it came to pass that one Michaelmas this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers being from home, as he well knew.
-- When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they had but known why, at this par- ticular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third- class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.
-- 'Wait in the next room, please; and leave your bundle here,' said the door-keeper, as he sat down comfortably in his own easy-chair in the ante-chamber.
-- Then he reflected, blinked his eyes, stared at his guest once more from head to foot; then abruptly motioned him to a chair, sat down himself, and waited with some impatience for the prince to speak.
-- Sit down a minute.
-- The gov-erness took her departure, and another lady came down to fetch Nastia, by Totski's instructions.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
-- He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.
-- He sat him-self down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.
-- 'Son of Atreus,' said he, 'I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are be-ing cut down by war and pestilence at once.
-- They have not raid-ed my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put down the eggs and bacon with considerable emphasis, and called rather than said to him, "Your lunch is served, sir."
-- She rapped down the mustard pot on the table, and then she noticed the overcoat and hat had been taken off and put over a chair in front of the fire, and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender.
-- He took a mouthful, glanced suspiciously at the window, took another mouthful, then rose and, taking the serviette in his hand, walked across the room and pulled the blind down to the top of the white muslin that obscured the lower panes.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them.
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