descend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 下降, 下来; 遗传; 袭击，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more nat-40 A tale of two citiesural to it than sunshine.
-- 'As they descend the hill like madmen running a race, he falls.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, they penetrated to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking-glass; he looked at her, and she sang the hymn: 'The rose in the valley is blooming so sweet, And angels descend there the children to greet.'
-- And Kay and Gerda looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they understood the old hymn: 'The rose in the valley is blooming so sweet, And angels descend there the children to greet.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How often during those eight years of happy life with his wife Alexey Alexandrovitch had looked at other men's faithless wives and other deceived husbands and asked himself: "How can people descend to that?
-- No!now I won't descend to that.
-- The prince's manner of treating the very people who, to Vronsky's surprise, were ready to descend to any depths to provide him with Russian amusements, was contemptuous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fishes are, of course, unable to live in it, and those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber, and other streams soon perish.
-- The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature.
-- Passepartout and Fix jumped off, stretched their stiffened limbs, and aided Mr. Fogg and the young woman to descend from the sledge.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rushed to the door, listened, caught up his hat and began to descend his thirteen steps cautiously, noiselessly, like a cat.
-- 'I don't know what to wish you,' said Raskolnikov, who had begun to descend the stairs, but looked back again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The influence for all good,which she came to exercise over me at a later time, begins alreadyto descend upon my breast.
-- But Miss Mowcher, finding that I was not at presentdisposed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that Iwas, for the time being, proof against the blandishments of thesmall bottle which she held up before one eye to enforce herpersuasions, said she would make a beginning on an early day,and requested the aid of my hand to descend from her elevatedstation.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this that happened between father and daughters may happen to the prettiest woman in Paris and the man she loves the best; if her love grows tiresome, he will go; he will descend to the basest trickery to leave her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw him descend the moun-tain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
-- We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasbourg to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
-- 'I have seen,' he said, 'the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash 188 Frankensteinwith fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he was to have any rest, her husband 88 Grimms' Fairy Talesmust once more descend into the garden.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whoever can there bring suf-ficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his 66 Gulliver's Travelscountry for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or le-gal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.
-- Yet soon after, it advanced nearer, and I could see the sides of it encom-passed with several gradations of galleries, and stairs, at certain intervals, to descend from one to the other.
-- At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called flandona gagnole, or the astronomer's cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.
-- And the king, when he is highest provoked, and most determined to press a city to rubbish, orders the island to descend with great gentleness, out of a pretence of tenderness to his people, but, indeed, for fear of break-ing the adamantine bottom; in which case, it is the opinion of all their philosophers, that the loadstone could no longer hold it up, and the whole mass would fall to the ground.
-- Both he and his company would often descend to ask me questions, and receive my answers.
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