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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel consulted his barometer, and found that the depression of the mercury corresponded to an elevation of 11,000 feet, only 910 meters lower than Mont Blanc.
-- His bronzed face was red between the eyes and mouth, black by the lower eyelids, and white on the forehead.
-- The flames got lower and lower.
-- The third arm, on the contrary, stretched right out in a horizontal position above the roaring waters, into which the lower leaves dipped.
-- Before getting lower the liquid mass must remain stationary, as in the case with the ocean before the ebb tide commences.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
-- It was a long chamber with a step separating the dais where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents.
-- From crime to crime he sank lower and lower, until it is only the mercy of God which has snatched him from the scaf-fold; but to me, sir, he was always the little curly-headed boy that I had nursed and played with, as an elder sister would.
-- The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
-- There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cut-ting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical it might almost be called a malicious smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no sound of their whereabout, when the Dodger descended the stairs, bearing the light in his hand, and followed by a man in a coarse smock-frock; who, after casting a hurried glance round the room, pulled off a large wrapper which had concealed the lower portion of his face, and disclosed: all haggard, unwashed, and unshorn: the features of flash Toby Crackit.
-- 'The sin and wickedness of the lower orders in this porochial district is frightful!If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his ordinary style? for I dare not hope,' he continued in a lower and more serious tone, 'that he is improved in essentials.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- I felled a cedar-tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was five feet ten inches diameter at the lower part next the stump, and four feet eleven inches diameter at the end of twenty-two feet; after which it lessened for a while, and then parted into branches.
-- Near this dwelling of mine, but a little farther within the land, and upon lower ground, lay my two pieces of corn land, which I kept duly cultivated and sowed, and which duly yielded me their harvest in its season; and whenever I had occasion for more corn, I had more land adjoining as fit as that.
-- There were some casks of liquor, whether wine or brandy I knew not, which lay lower in the hold, and which, the wa-ter being ebbed out, I could see; but they were too big to meddle with.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lucy first put an end to it by saying in a lower tone, though Marianne was then giving them the powerful protection of a very magnificent concerto "I will honestly tell you of one scheme which has lately come into my head, for bringing matters to bear; indeed I am bound to let you into the secret, for you are a party concerned.
-- Thus a circumstance occurred, while the sisters were together in their own room after breakfast, which sunk the heart of Mrs. Jennings still lower in her estimation; because, through her own weakness, it chanced to prove a source of fresh pain to herself, though Mrs. Jennings was governed in it by an impulse of the utmost goodwill.
-- It was lower and quicker than ever!and Marianne, still talking wildly of mama, her alarm increased so rapidly, as to determine her on sending instantly for Mr. Harris, and despatching a messenger to Barton for her mother.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took his lower lip between his teeth for a moment, and then let it go.
-- They are the men who are in the lodginghouse sitting-rooms during bleak and bitter weather and who swarm about the cheaper shelters which only open at six in a number of the lower East Side streets.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I opened my mouth to begin; but she grabbed me and hustled me in behind the bed, and says: 'Here he comes!Stick your head down lower there, that'll do; you can't be seen now.
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