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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why do you humiliate yourself like this, and place yourself lower than these people?
-- So you see they don't aim at the chest or head; they aim lower on purpose.
-- cried Aglaya and her lower lip trembled vio-lently.
-- 'I love Gavrila Ardalionovitch,' she said, quickly; but hardly audibly, and with her head bent lower than ever.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.
-- Ajax struck him in the belt; the spear pierced the lower part of his belly, and he fell heavily to the ground.
-- You have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this plight: still, I cannot let you remain longer in such great pain; you are my own off-spring, and it was by me that your mother conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god, you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans.'
-- Paris struck De-iochus from behind in the lower part of the shoulder, as he was flying among the foremost, and the point of the spear went clean through him.
-- When they were now come close to one another Patro-clus struck Thrasydemus, the brave squire of Sarpedon, in the lower part of the belly, and killed him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held a white cloth it was a serviette he had brought with him over the lower part of his face, so that his mouth and jaws were completely hidden, and that was the reason of his muffled voice.
-- He took a mouthful, glanced suspiciously at the window, took another mouthful, then rose and, taking the serviette in his hand, walked across the room and pulled the blind down to the top of the white muslin that obscured the lower panes.
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face.
-- In the books the books that tramp has hidden there are marvels, miracles!But this was not a method, it was an idea, that might lead to a method by which it would be possible, without changing any other property of matter except, in some instances colours to lower the refractive index of a substance, solid or liquid, to that of air so far as all practical purposes are concerned."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He distorted his lower lip, and nodded his head hope-lessly at the grey-haired man beside him, to indicate his powerlessness to help me.
-- Plants do not feel pain, nor the lower animals; it's possible that such ani-mals as the starfish and crayfish do not feel pain at all.
-- His face was rather pale, and he showed more of his lower gums than ever.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thin-nest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clouded cotton stockings, and shoes, on one of the latter of which was a plated spur, completed the costume of the lower extremity of this figure, no curve or angle of which was concealed, but, on the other hand, studiously ex-hibited, through the vanity or simplicity of its owner.
-- The quick eyes of the Mohicans caught the dark line of his lower limbs incautiously exposed through the thin foliage, a few inches from the trunk of the tree.
-- A second yell soon fol-lowed the first, when a rush of voices was heard pouring down the island, from its upper to its lower extremity, until they reached the naked rock above the caverns, where, after a shout of savage triumph, the air continued full of horrible cries and screams, such as man alone can utter, and he only when in a state of the fiercest barbarity.
-- Along both ranges of hills, which bounded the opposite sides of the lake and valley, clouds of light vapor were rising in spiral wreaths from the uninhabited woods, looking like the smoke of hid-den cottages; or rolled lazily down the declivities, to mingle with the fogs of the lower land.
-- On reaching the spot, the anxious party perceived another por-tion of the veil fluttering on the lower branch of a beech.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
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