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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ardalion Alexandrovitch Ivolgin,' said the smiling general, with a low bow of great dignity, 'an old soldier, un-fortunate, and the father of this family; but happy in the hope of including in that family so exquisite ' He did not finish his sentence, for at this moment Fer-dishenko pushed a chair up from behind, and the general, not very firm on his legs, at this post-prandial hour, flopped into it backwards.
-- They stopped before a somewhat low doorway on the fourth floor.
-- As soon as the visitors had crossed the low dark hall, and entered the narrow reception-room, furnished with half a dozen cane chairs, and two small card-tables, Madame Terentieff, in the shrill tones habitual to her, continued her stream of invectives.
-- said the general in a low voice to Totski.
-- I made an honest girl like you serve a low woman like myself.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon, lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta, with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea; Laas, moreover, and Oetylus; these were led by Menelaus of the loud battle-cry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others.
-- These were inspired of Mars, but the others by Minerva and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murder-ous Mars, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she uprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.
-- 'Holy Minerva,' she cried, 'protectress of our city, mighty goddess, break the spear of Diomed and lay him low before the Scaean gates.
-- these in turn did he lay low upon the earth, and King Agamemnon was glad when he saw him making hav-oc of the Trojans with his mighty bow.
-- When they had fled through the set stakes and trench and many Achaeans had been laid low at the hands of the Trojans, they halted at their ships, call-ing upon one another and praying every man instantly as they lifted up their hands to the gods; but Hector wheeled his horses this way and that, his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo or murderous Mars.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
-- "All right," said the intruder, as it seemed in a low voice curiously different from the huskiness of its first inquiry.
-- said the anaemic cabman, going off at a tangent, trying to see up the hill over the dirty yellow blind in the low window of the inn.
-- Then he had an odd impression that he had heard a low voice say, "Good Heavens! Kemp!"
-- The shop was old-fashioned and low and dark, and the house rose above it for four storeys, dark and dismal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
-- He talked to Montgomery in a tone too low for me to hear.
-- We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.
-- In a minute or so the trees grew thinner, and I emerged upon a bare, low headland running out into the sombre water.
-- The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night.
-- said half a dozen low voic-es (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
-- Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and soft, oozy triangles that melt-ed into squares and five-sided figures, and coiled mounds, never resting, never hurrying, and never stopping his low humming song.
-- We will leave the lights of the village and go to the low moon.
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