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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island al-most due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls' nests, where the walrus herded by themselves.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sky-blue coat, with short and broad skirts and low cape, exposed a long, thin neck, and longer and thinner legs, to the worst animadver-sions of the evil-disposed.
-- A gen-eral movement among the domestics, and a low sound of gentle voices, announced the approach of those whose pres-ence alone was wanted to enable the cavalcade to move.
-- One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suffered the morn-ing air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver.
-- 'Here, then, lies our way,' said the young man, in a low voice.
-- Besides,' she added, in a low and hurried voice, casting a glance at the distant Cora, who slowly followed the foot-steps of their silent, but sullen guide, 'it may be a friend added to our strength, in time of need.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks.
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
-- It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high- ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low project- ing eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went on in a low and trembling voice:"I never knew it was possible to hate anyone as much as I hate him.
-- And you find some woman, coarse and low and vulgar, some beastly creature in whom all the horror of sex is blatant, and you fall upon her like a wild animal.
-- asked Dirk, in a voice so low it was almost a whisper.
-- We heard her low voice, and then, in a voice I did not recognise the answer:"No.
-- Dirk gave a low cry of distress.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer looked fixedly at the man who spoke, and who added, in a low voice, "Captain Harding, will you try to escape?"
-- Let us have patience, and at low water it is possible we may find a fordable passage."
-- Three hours later at low tide, the greater part of the sand forming the bed of the channel was uncovered.
-- The sailor ascertained that at this time that is to say, at low tide, when the rising floods did not reach it it was sweet.
-- Stretched out be low them was the sandy shore, bounded on the right of the river's mouth by lines of breakers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sleep soundly, Nell,' he said in a low voice, 'and angels guard thy bed!Do not forget thy prayers, my sweet.'
-- These words were uttered in too low a tone to reach the ears of the young men.
-- CHAPTER 3The child was closely followed by an elderly man of remarkably hard features and forbidding aspect, and so low in stature as to be quite a dwarf, though his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant.
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- said the boy in a low voice.
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