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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the armchair creaked as he sat down again.
-- Then Henfrey looked down again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water.
-- The sky was clear, the sun midway down the west-ern sky; long waves, capped by the breeze with froth, were running with us.
-- The poor devil went down like a felled ox, and rolled in the dirt among the furiously excited dogs.
-- The red-haired man gave a yawp of exultation and stood staggering, and as it seemed to me in serious danger of either going back-wards down the companion hatchway or forwards upon his victim.
-- Mont-gomery gave an angry exclamation, and went striding down the deck, and I followed him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely: 'Shere Khan speaks this much truth.
-- The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he be-longs to.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- 'It's like the choice ointment, From the head to the beard did go; Down Aaron's head, that downward went His garment's skirts unto.'
-- For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have a natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed down from generation to generation, as, our holy commandments tell us, all good and evil gifts are bestowed; though I should be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
-- I am on the hilltop and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.'
-- William Henry, man!if you are friends to the king and have business with the army, your way would be to follow the river down to Edward, and lay the matter before Webb, who tarries there, instead of pushing into the defiles, and driv-ing this saucy Frenchman back across Champlain, into his den again.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high- ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low project- ing eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather.
-- The sun gradually wheeled his broad disk down in the west.
-- A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
-- Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.
-- They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed with a de-mon, instead of keeping up it, made an opposite turn, and plunged headlong down hill to the left.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true I knew him more intimately than most: I met him first before ever he became a painter, and I saw him not infrequently during the difficult years he spent in Paris; but I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.
-- They remember that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch-bearers will presently yield their place also.
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