ladder是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 梯子， 阶梯，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every corpse is a sphynx of immortality; here too on the black coffin the sphynx gave us no answer to what he who lay within had written two days before: 'O mighty Death!thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A ladder was brought, and I got down after the lady, who was likea haystack: not daring to stir, until her basket was removed.
-- 332CHAPTER XXIVMy First DissipationIT was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself,and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe,when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder upafter him.
-- Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity,may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount,but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wearand tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, andsincere earnestness.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The ladder was against the straw-rick and is burnt to a cinder," said a spectre-like form in the smoke.
-- Troy flung down his cane and put his foot on the ladder to ascend.
-- "You can bring up some reed-sheaves to me, one by one, ma'am; if you are not afraid to come up the ladder in the dark," said Gabriel.
-- Then Oak went back again, ascended to the top, stepped off the ladder for greater expedition, and went on thatching.
-- Now Bathsheba did care a little to see the show, and had only withheld her feet from the ladder because she feared to go in alone.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What power there must be in the petitions put up by such hearts; how pure the fervor that bears their souls to Heaven in prayer!What exquisite joy they would find in self-sacrifice!What a pang for his mother's heart if she could not send him all that he asked for!And this noble affection, these sacrifices made at such terrible cost, were to serve as the ladder by which he meant to climb to Delphine de Nucingen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made out that I was fastened to a stout perpendicular ladder a few inches from the wall,--a fixture there,--the means of ascent to the loft above.
-- My eyes were fixed on the ladder against the wall, when I came to myself,--had opened on it before my mind saw it,--and thus as I recovered consciousness, I knew that I was in the place where I had lost it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,' said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.'
-- Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse.'
-- He went to the tower in which his mother was confined, and as it was so high, he wished for a ladder which would reach up to the very top.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length of my coat: but my waist and arms I measured myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I didn't climb up the ladder in them. Shouldn't be so high up, if I had.'
-- It was a room, not unacquainted with the black ladder under various tenants; but as neat, at present, as such a room could be.
-- RACHAELA candle faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies; and Stephen added to his other thoughts the stern reflection, that of all the casualties of this existence upon earth, not one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as Death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men appeared robust but heavy; fair-haired like Germans, but of pensive mien--exiles of a higher scale in the ladder of humanity than the Eskimos, but, I thought, much more unhappy, since with superior perceptions they are compelled to live within the limits of the Polar Circle.
-- You may conceive that the whole made a tolerable parcel, especially when I mention that the ladder itself was three hundred feet long!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was plain enough, nevertheless, as Little Dorrit had said; over a lime-splashed gateway in the corner, within which Plornish kept a ladder and a barrel or two.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Instantly, Sir What's-his-name recovered himself, pitched the tyrant out of the window, and turned to join the lady, victorious, but with a bump on his brow, found the door locked, tore up the curtains, made a rope ladder, got halfway down when the ladder broke, and he went headfirst into the moat, six-ty feet below.
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