low是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 低， 矮； 低级的， 下层的， 卑贱的； 低声的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had tried on a dinner suit and come out for her approval, his long brown tie and soft- collared shirt somewhat rustic behind the low evening waistcoat, and when the clerk had gone to fetch collars, she wailed: "Darn it, Sandy, you're too grand for me.
-- Gosh, it's fierce I had to miss the select pleasures of an evening with Anxious Duer and associated highboys, and merely play a low game of poker--in which Father deftly removed the sum of six simolea, point ten, from the fore-gathered bums and yahoos.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How dare you, you low fellow!'
-- All at once he heard distinctly a faint cry, as though someone had uttered a low broken moan.
-- But from some queer, almost animal, cunning he conceived the idea of hiding his strength and lying low for a time, pretending if necessary not to be yet in full possession of his faculties, and meanwhile listening to find out what was going on.
-- Of course they sought high and low for Nikolay; they detained Dushkin and searched his house; Dmitri, too, was arrested; the Kolomensky men also were turned inside out.
-- Mistrust-fully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow 'cabin.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in thenewspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
-- So my mothersuspected, at least, as she observed her by the low glimmer of thefire: too much scared by Miss Betsey, too uneasy in herself, and toosubdued and bewildered altogether, to observe anything veryclearly, or to know what to say.
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- Mrs. Gummidge had been in a low state all day, and had burst intotears in the forenoon, when the fire smoked.
-- 'I meant, Mr. Creakle,' he returned in a low voice, 'as I said; that nopupil had a right to avail himself of his position of favouritism todegrade me.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Elton's situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and with-out low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet.
-- 'And really, I do not think the impression will soon be over,' said Emma, as she crossed the low hedge, and totter-ing footstep which ended the narrow, slippery path through the cottage garden, and brought them into the lane again.
-- She was very feverish and had a bad sore throat: Mrs. Goddard was full of care and af-fection, Mr. Perry was talked of, and Harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement, though she could not speak of her loss without many tears.
-- Emma was just describ-ing the nature of her friend's complaint; 'a throat very much inflamed, with a great deal of heat about her, a quick, low pulse, &c. and she was sorry to find from Mrs. Goddard that Harriet was liable to very bad sore-throats, and had of-ten alarmed her with them.'
-- This was the occurrence: The Coles had been settled some years in Highbury, and were very good sort of people friendly, liberal, and unpretending; but, on the other hand, they were of low origin, in trade, and only moderately genteel.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then I heard it fall," said the girl, in a soft, though not particularly low voice.
-- Occupied thus, with eyes stretched afar, Oak gradually perceived that what he had previously taken to be a star low down behind the outskirts of the plantation was in reality no such thing.
-- Had she been put into a low dress she would have run and thrust her head into a bush.
-- Gabriel said, in a low voice, which was rather meant to travel back to himself than to her.
-- Bathsheba had overtaken him at a point beside which stood a low stunted holly bush, now laden with red berries.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hair, worn in _ailes de pigeon_, and duly powdered every morning by the barber from the Ecole Polytechnique, described five points on his low forehead, and made an elegant setting to his face.
-- "That old bat always makes me shudder," said Bianchon in a low voice, indicating Mlle.
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