kneel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 跪， 下跪，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：
-- Miss, if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the be-lief that her father was dead No, don't kneel!In Heaven's name why should you kneel to me!'
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- Her father had followed her, and would have fallen on his knees to both of them, but that Darnay put out a hand and seized him, crying: 'No, no!What have you done, what have you done, that you should kneel to us!We know now, what a struggle you made of old.
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：
-- Katerina Ivanovna took little Lida, lifted the boy from the chair, knelt down in the cor-ner by the stove and made the children kneel in front of her.
-- Her mother made her kneel beside her.
-- 'No, but kneel down and pray to God for me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And how the parson would pray!Yes; he would kneel down and put up his hands together, and make the holy gold rings on his fingers gleam and twinkle in yer eyes, that he'd earned by praying so excellent well! Ah yes, I wish I lived there."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, I am confessing my sins, and it would be impossible to kneel in a more charming confessional; you commit your sins in one drawing-room, and receive absolution for them in another."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carreen, who was small for her age, could not kneel comfortably at the table and so kneltfacing a chair, her elbows on the seat.
-- The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sankdown, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gauntand yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers aspossible.
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：
-- He had an impulse to kneel and plead for forgiveness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their seat was a part of the window; when there was anything in the way of a procession going on, they used to have bright draperies hung out of the window, and used to kneel or sit on this seat, and look out at it, leaning on the brilliant colour.
-- 'I can, and Heaven knows I do!Do not kiss my dress and kneel to me; you are too old to kneel to me; I forgive you freely without that.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come in thy lowest form of love, and I will kneel and kiss thee; but at thy highest, come as mere supernal power; and though thou launchest navies of full-freighted worlds, there's that in here that still remains indifferent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the man: bursting into tears, and sinking on his knees at the feet of the dead woman; 'kneel down, kneel down --kneel round her, every one of you, and mark my words!I say she was starved to death.
-- It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgotten expression of sleeping infancy, and settle into the very look of early life; so calm, so peaceful, do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood, kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see the Angel even upon earth.
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