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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to speak of the fact that crime has been greatly on the increase among the lower classes during the last five years, not to speak of the cases of robbery and arson everywhere, what strikes me as the strangest thing is that in the higher classes, too, crime is increasing proportionately.
-- Here and there they gathered in groups, on the pavement, espe-cially about the entrances to various festive establishments in the lower storeys.
-- Her mouth was rather small; the full red lower lip projected a little as did her chin; it was the only irregular-ity in her beautiful face, but it gave it a peculiarly individual and almost haughty expression.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A squareness about the lower part of his face, and the dottedindication of the strong black beard he shaved close every day,reminded me of the wax-work that had travelled into ourneighbourhood some half a year before.
-- Of the woman who abets you, I saynothing- since you, Clara,' addressing my mother in a lower voice,'from old associations and long-established fancies, have aweakness respecting her which is not yet overcome.'
-- I am sure I can never feel thankful enoughfor the generosity with which he has protected me, so muchyounger and lower in the school than himself.'
-- Into this shop, which was low and small, and which was darkenedrather than lighted by a little window, overhung with clothes, andwas descended into by some steps, I went with a palpitating heart;which was not relieved when an ugly old man, with the lower partof his face all covered with a stubbly grey beard, rushed out of adirty den behind it, and seized me by the hair of my head.
-- I'll tell you what,' he added, in a lower tone, 'I shouldn'twish it to be mentioned, but it's a-' here he beckoned to me, andput his lips close to my ear- 'it's a mad world.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley was hard at work upon the lower buttons of his thick leather gaiters, and either the exertion of getting them together, or some other cause, brought the colour into his face, as he answered, 'Oh!are you there? But you are miserably behindhand.
-- ' And Emma distinctly heard him add, in a lower tone, before he quitted the room, 'I have been as good as my word.
-- She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- Farmer Oak went towards the plantation and pushed through its lower boughs to the windy side.
-- Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.
-- The young girl remained motionless by the tree, and Gabriel descended into the village of Weatherbury, or Lower Longpuddle as it was sometimes called.
-- MISTRESS AND MENHalf-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- The young medical students who came to the house noticed the drooping of his lower lip and the conformation of the facial angle; and, after teasing him for some time to no purpose, they declared that cretinism was setting in.
-- Father Goriot, seated at the lower end of the table, close to the door through which the servant entered, raised his face; he had smelt at a scrap of bread that lay under his table napkin, an old trick acquired in his commercial capacity, that still showed itself at times.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its in-habitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.
-- The country in the neigh-bourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.
-- The sun sank lower in the heavens; we passed the river Drance and observed its path through the chasms of the higher and the glens of the lower hills.
-- But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy's lips were large and pendulous and, when indignant, she could push out her lower one to twice itsnormal length.
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