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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first three or four hours—that is to say, for about sixty to eighty miles, as far as Cape Gregory—the coast on either side was low and sandy.
-- They were Ando-Peruvians, of an olive tint, of medium stature and massive form, with a low forehead, almost circular face, thin lips, high cheekbones, effeminate features, and cold expression.
-- As he was thus watching and listening, Thaouka gave a low neigh, and stretched his nostrils toward the entrance of the RAMADA.
-- It was a complete copse, low and close packed, but a strange sort.
-- "The aborigines of Australia are low enough in the scale of human intelligence, and most degraded and uncivilized, but they are mild and gentle in disposition, and not sanguinary like their New Zealand neighbors.
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：
-- We have established a most important fact by these questions, Watson,' he continued in a low voice as we went upstairs together.
-- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the dis-tance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
-- We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
-- he asked in a low voice.
-- In its cold light I saw be-yond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," said Marianne, in a low voice, "nor how many painful moments."
-- I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The low crotch of the vest revealed a stiff shirt bosom of white and pink stripes.
-- The whirling wheels began to sing in a steadily modifying key, until at last they died away in a low buzz.
-- She was not used to this type, and felt that there was something hard and low about it all.
-- They looked about, and now the thing was sinking, and Minnie heard the low sip of the encroaching water.
-- Such conversation as was indulged in held the same relationship to the actual mental enactments of the twain that the low music of the orchestra does to the dramatic incident which it is used to cover.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shot this fel- low and took him into camp.
-- So Balum he tuck en give de ten cents to de po', en laid low to see what wuz gwyne to come of it.'
-- The water was three or four foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom.
-- I played it as low down on them as I could.
-- We fixed up a short forked stick to hang the old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern whenever we see a steamboat coming down-stream, to keep from getting run over; but we wouldn't have to light it for up-stream boats unless we see we was in what they call a 'crossing"; for the river was pretty high yet, very low banks being still a little under wa-ter; so up-bound boats didn't always run the channel, but hunted easy water.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking off his cap, he bowed low and opened the door of the prison, and Pinocchio ran out and away, with never a look backward.
-- And bending low over him, he asked: "Who are you?"
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