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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They followed the shape of the room, terminating at the lower part in huge divans, covered with brown leather, which were curved, to afford the greatest comfort.
-- These reservoirs are in the lower part of the Nautilus.
-- There is very little labour spent in attaining the lower regions of the ocean, for all bodies have a tendency to sink.
-- Who could paint the effects of the light through those transparent sheets of water, and the softness of the successive gradations from the lower to the superior strata of the ocean?
-- I would also mention quadrangular ostracions, having on the back four large tubercles; some dotted over with white spots on the lower part of the body, and which may be tamed like birds; trigons provided with spikes formed by the lengthening of their bony shell, and which, from their strange gruntings, are called "seapigs"; also dromedaries with large humps in the shape of a cone, whose flesh is very tough and leathery.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I can't see what you will leave me at all, to be interested in," came Gerald's voice from the lower room.
-- Ursula was just breaking out, when Hermione lifted her face and began, in her musing sing-song:"I do think I do really think we must have the courage to use the lower animal life for our needs.
-- He did not look at her, but he smiled with the lower part of his face, putting his head aside in an odd gesture of assent.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I descended cautiously to the lower regions, and landed in the back kitchen, where a gleam of fire, raked compactly together, enabled me to rekindle my candle.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the wave.
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