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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he thought, as he drove into the familiar court-yard of the old manor, which was covered with snow that fell from the roofs, and was surrounded by a low brick wall.
-- "Of course there is considerable truth in Darwin's theory," said the returning Kolosoff, stretching himself on a low arm-chair and looking through sleepy eyes at the Princess, "but he goes too far."
-- I am in low spirits to-day, and I have no right to bore people," answered Nekhludoff.
-- "Why are you in low spirits?"
-- "There is nothing worse than to confess being in low spirits," said Missy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace.
-- I had got to such a low estimate of her kind that I did not expect any gratitude from her.
-- "Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and fluttering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only to-day I happen to have a headache.'
-- 'Humpty Dumpty saw it too,' the White Queen went on in a low voice, more as if she were talking to herself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain glared at him for a while, flapped his hand again, glared still harder, and at last broke out with a villainous, low oath, "Silence, there, between decks!"
-- It was one January morning, very early a pinching, frosty morning the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
-- For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
-- He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.
-- But there was no unusual sound nothing but the low wash of the ripple and the croaking of the inmates of the wood.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I am inclined to think that the commander and his companion were born in low latitudes.
-- Very soon light reappeared and grew, and, the sun being low on the horizon, the refraction edged the different objects with a spectral ring.
-- "The tides are not strong in the Pacific: you are right there, Professor; but in Torres Straits one finds still a difference of a yard and a half between the level of high and low seas.
-- I went up again on to the platform: night had already fallen; for, in this low latitude, the sun sets rapidly and without twilight.
-- The natives were there, more numerous than on the day before five or six hundred perhaps some of them, profiting by the low water, had come on to the coral, at less than two cable-lengths from the Nautilus.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding.
-- Just inside the gate of the school shrubbery, outside the churchyard, Ursula sat down for a moment on the low stone wall under the laurel bushes, to rest.
-- It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water.
-- "How do you do, Mr Birkin," she said, in her low voice, that seemed to take no count of her guests.
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