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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The geographer was thrown down the forecastle ladder and disappeared below.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was just a minute before the execution,' began the prince, readily, carried away by the recollection and evi-dently forgetting everything else in a moment; 'just at the instant when he stepped off the ladder on to the scaffold.
-- At the foot of the ladder he had been pale enough; but when he set foot on the scaffold at the top, his face suddenly became the colour of paper, positively like white notepaper.
-- 'Draw the scaffold so that only the top step of the ladder comes in clearly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was standing on the ladder with his back to us, peering over the combing of the hatch-way.
-- As I came up the ladder I saw against the flushed sky for the sun was just rising the broad back and red hair of the captain, and over his shoulder the puma spinning from a tackle rigged on to the mizzen spanker-boom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ladder was manufactured with extreme care, and its uprights, formed of the twisted fibers of a species of cane, had the strength of a thick cable.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
-- The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of them-selves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.
-- But the side ladder was not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain's former sea-farings.
-- Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture.
-- But to this their leader as fiercely objected, reserving that priority for himself; particularly as his two comrades would not yield, the one to the other, in the matter; and both of them could not be first, for the ladder would but admit one man at a time.
-- Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale's head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entrance into this place I made to be, not by a door, but by a short ladder to go over the top; which ladder, when I was in, I lifted over after me; and so I was completely fenced in and fortified, as I thought, from all the world, and con-sequently slept secure in the night, which otherwise I could not have done; though, as it appeared afterwards, there was no need of all this caution from the enemies that I appre-hended danger from.
-- - I finished the ladder; so I went up the ladder to the top, and then pulled it up after me, and let it down in the inside.
-- Besides this, I had my country seat, and I had now a tol-erable plantation there also; for, first, I had my little bower, as I called it, which I kept in repair - that is to say, I kept the hedge which encircled it in constantly fitted up to its usual height, the ladder standing always in the inside.
-- As for the way which I proposed to myself to go in and out (for I left no avenue), it was by setting two ladders, one to a part of the rock which was low, and then broke in, and left room to place another ladder upon that; so when the two ladders were taken down no man living could come down to me without doing himself mischief; and if they had come down, they were still on the outside of my outer wall.
-- In this extremity I went back directly to my castle, pulled up the ladder after me, and made all things without look as wild and natural as I could.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they was starting down the ladder the duke he chuck-les again, and says: 'Quick sales AND small profits!It's a good busi- ness yes.'
-- Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.
-- But there's one thing he can have a rope ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope ladder easy enough.
-- Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark lad-der don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain't had no ex-perience, and so he don't care what kind of a ' 'Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you I'd keep still that's what I'D do.
-- But the person that et it would want to fetch a couple of kags of toothpicks along, for if that rope ladder wouldn't cramp him down to business I don't know nothing what I'm talk-ing about, and lay him in enough stomach-ache to last him till next time, too.
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