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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, lower down, the density will become even greater."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
-- He was at his ease in the narrow 'great world', that is, landed aristocracy society, but he was shy and ner-vous of all that other big world which consists of the vast hordes of the middle and lower classes, and foreigners.
-- She saw in him the peculiar tight rebuff against anyone of the lower classes who might be really climbing up, which she knew was characteristic of his breed.
-- She con-tinued plodding on, but exasperation and irritation had got hold of her lower body, she couldn't escape.
-- Connie thought, how extremely like all the rest of the classes the lower classes sounded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, in his captivity, like a lower animal like some impatient ape, or roused bear of the smaller species the prisoner, now left solitary, had jumped upon the ledge, to lose no glimpse of this departure.
-- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
-- Although she said this raging, she said it in a voice so far from being beyond her control that it was even lower than her usual tone.
-- said Little Dorrit, in a lower and triumphant tone.
-- 'Do you happen to know, Mrs Clennam,' Affery's liege lord then demanded in a much lower voice, and with an amount of expression that seemed quite out of proportion to the simple purpose of his words, 'where she lives?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All quiet, curtains down at the lower win-dows, servants out of sight, and nothing human visible but a curly black head leaning on a thin hand at the upper win-dow.
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
-- It will be too absurd to put a luncheon for twelve before a single girl,' cried Jo, hurrying away to the lower regions, too excited to stop even for a laugh.
-- Seeing a ray of hope in that last speech, Laurie threw himself down on the grass at her feet, leaned his arm on the lower step of the stile, and looked up at her with an expect-ant face.
-- 'Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns,' said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale.
-- Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
-- Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.
-- "Nantucket market!Hoot!But come closer, Starbuck; thou requirest a little lower layer.
-- "Hark ye yet again the little lower layer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Somebody must find out wot's been done at the office,' said Mr. Sikes in a much lower tone than he had taken since he came in.
-- CHAPTER XIX IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den.
-- 'So, you're going on to Lower Halliford, are you?'
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