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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither, as she approached her old home now, did any of the best influences of old home descend upon her.
-- The sun was four hours lower than when Sissy and Rachael had first sat down upon the grass, before a means of enabling two men to descend securely was rigged with poles and ropes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arne Saknussemm Which dog Latin being translated, reads as follows: Descend into the crater of Yocul of Sneffels, which the shade of Scartaris caresses, before the kalends of July, audacious traveler, and you will reach the centre of the earth.
-- "But is it not well-known that heat increases one degree for every seventy feet you descend into the earth?
-- Nothing more remains but to descend into the bowels of the earth."
-- I will endeavor to climb to the summit of Sneffels, and, if possible, will descend into its crater."
-- Simply to take a journey through a curious country, to climb a remarkable mountain, and if the worst comes to the worst, to descend into the crater of an extinct volcano."
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：
-- The car was already turning, between little old blackened miners' cottages, to descend to Uthwaite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether a prisoner could scale the walls with a cord and grapple, how he would descend upon the other side?
-- In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries.'
-- Be very careful how you descend the stairs, Nandy; they are rather uneven and worn.'
-- Then leaning on Mr Merdle's arm, did Mr Dorrit descend the staircase, seeing the worshippers on the steps, and feeling that the light of Mr Merdle shone by reflection in himself.
-- I must not descend so low as that, and carry you so dear, so generous, so good down with me.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies.
-- And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.
-- It was inserted there by my particular friend Queequeg, whose duty it was, as harpooneer, to descend upon the monster's back for the special purpose referred to.
-- Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale's head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach.
-- Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this second sleep I had this terrible dream: I thought that I was sitting on the ground, on the outside of my wall, where I sat when the storm blew after the earthquake, and that I saw a man descend from a great black cloud, in a bright flame of fire, and light upon the ground.
-- At the end of this march I came to an opening where the country seemed to descend to the west; and a little spring of fresh water, which issued out of the side of the hill by me, ran the other way, that is, due east; and the country appeared so fresh, so green, so flourishing, every-thing being in a constant verdure or flourish of spring that it looked like a planted garden.
-- We were a little uneasy, however, when we found it snowed one whole day and a night so fast that we could not travel; but he bid us be easy; we should soon be past it all: we found, indeed, that we began to descend every day, and to come more north than before; and so, depending upon our guide, we went on.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only her jointure, which will descend to her children."
-- I cannot descend to be tricked out of assurances, that are not really wanted."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure there was always the next station, where one might descend and return.
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