lower是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 较低的， 下级的， 下游的v. 降下， 放低，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear indoors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast!
-- Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The passen-ger would then start to himself, and lower the window, to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek.
-- Through the rusted bars, tastes, rather than glimpses, were caught of the jumbled neigh-bourhood; and nothing within range, nearer or lower than the summits of the two great towers of Notre-Dame, had any promise on it of healthy life or wholesome aspirations.
-- A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
-- He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it bet-ter than the faithful service of the heart; so rendered and so free from any mercenary taint, he had such an exalted respect for it, that in the retributive arrangements made by his own mind we all make such arrangements, more or less he stationed Miss Pross much nearer to the lower An-gels than many ladies immeasurably better got up both by Nature and Art, who had balances at Tellson's.
-- In the ar-rangements of the little household, Miss Pross took charge of the lower regions, and always acquitted herself marvel-138 A tale of two citieslously.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he kept saying in a pitiful voice, not knowing what he was saying, as his head sank lower and lower.
-- "I told you I did not know whether I should be here long...that it depended on you..." She dropped her head lower and lower, not knowing herself what answer she should make to what was coming.
-- Kitty's lower lip began to quiver; she got up quickly.
-- She remembered how she had told her husband of what was almost a declaration made her at Petersburg by a young man, one of her husband's subordinates, and how Alexey Alexandrovitch had answered that every woman living in the world was exposed to such incidents, but that he had the fullest confidence in her tact, and could never lower her and himself by jealousy.
-- One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with the one wife whom he has lawfully married; that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, and a man manly, self-controlled, and strong; that one ought to bring up one's children, earn one's bread, and pay one's debts; and various similar absurdities.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant.
-- Kiouni, resuming his rapid gait, soon descended the lower spurs of the Vindhias, and towards noon they passed by the village of Kallenger, on the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges.
-- Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branches of a tree, was resolving an idea which had at first struck him like a flash, and which was now firmly lodged in his brain.
-- It passed gradually from the rich, to whom it was at first exclusively reserved, to the lower classes, and then its ravages could not be arrested.
-- This elicited loud applause, in the midst of which the orchestra was just striking up a deafening air, when the pyramid tottered, the balance was lost, one of the lower noses vanished from the pyramid, and the human monument was shattered like a castle built of cards!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard the Doc open the lower part of the washstand, where he kept his bottle of Jamaica rum.
-- As of course you know, Doctor, you can tell such a lot by the differences in the shape of the lower border of the ribs, and by the surface of the belly during deep breathing."
-- At noon, when lawyers appeared and the tenants were in new flats commandeered by Martin, the wreckers set fire to the lower stories, and in half an hour the buildings had been annihilated.
-- That morning Martin had isolated a new strain of staphylococcus bacteria from the gluteal carbuncle of a patient in the Lower Manhattan Hospital, a carbuncle which was healing with unusual rapidity.
-- After seven he worked out the operation of the telephone switchboard and called Lower Manhattan Hospital.
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：
-- It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb ofdisorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present state of mind this was positively agreeable.
-- Lizaveta was of lower rank than her sister, un-married and awfully uncouth in appearance, remarkably tall with long feet that looked as if they were bent outwards.
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