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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her cr脙陋pe veilfluttering almost to her heels.
-- "Her name Belle Watling," said Uncle Peter, his lower lip beginning to protrude.
-- Scarlett arose at five-thirty, before the servants had come in from the back yard to start breakfast, and slippeddown the steps to the quiet lower floor.
-- "An admirable sentiment, but do lower your voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's what she did," said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; "she Ram-paged out, Pip."
-- "Well, Pip," said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars; "I'll tell you.
-- It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
-- Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred.
-- I was fully old enough now to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There they no-ticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them; it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far away.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is al-leged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution; but, however this be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the adminis-tration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe; and particularly that his majesty's imperial heels are lower at least by a drurr than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).
-- And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate?'
-- My wife run out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth.
-- And one thing I might depend upon, that they would certainly tell me the truth, for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world.'
-- I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had nev-er seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, 'that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their princi-pals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Lower yourself, then,' retorted Cupid.
-- While, from Mr. Gradgrind, he heard in his much lower tone the words, 'But even as an example to Louisa, of what this pursuit which has been the subject of a vulgar curiosity, leads to and ends in.
-- 'And what,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, in a still lower voice, 'did you read to your father, Jupe?'
-- Sissy resumed in a lower voice.
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The temperature, however, was very much lower than I expected.
-- After all, I was very likely to be mistaken--and it was within the range of probability and possibility that we were not making our way through the strata of rocks which I believed I recognized piled on the lower layer of granitic formation.
-- You see, then, that by descending slowly, and by gradually accustoming ourselves to the density of this lower atmosphere, we shall not suffer."
-- "And when we are still lower down?"
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