fall是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 跌倒； 下降； 减弱； 坠落； 变成， 陷于n. 秋季，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew nothing then of the discoveries that are occasionally made of bodies buried in ancient times, which fall to powder in the moment of being distinctly seen; but, I have often thought since, that she must have looked as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust.
-- He got heavily bruised, for I am sorry to record that the more I hit him, the harder I hit him; but he came up again and again and again, until at last he got a bad fall with the back of his head against the wall.
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
-- But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she cried out, 'The king's daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead.'
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
-- Then the cat said, 'Take me with you,' Chanticleer said, 'With all my heart: get up behind, and be sure you do not fall off.'
-- 'If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow; not one of us can stand against him.'
-- When he was halfway up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to de-scribe or conceive.
-- I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length of my coat: but my waist and arms I measured myself.
-- Here I sat for some time, five hundred yards from the ground, expecting every moment to be blown down by the wind, or to fall by my own giddiness, and come tumbling over and over from the ridge to the eaves; but an honest lad, one of my nurse's footmen, climbed up, and putting me into his breeches pocket, brought me down safe.
-- I heard a noise just over my head, like the clapping of wings, and then began to perceive the woful condition I was in; that some eagle had got the ring of my box in his beak, with an intent to let it fall on a rock, like a tortoise in 177a shell, and then pick out my body, and devour it: for the sagacity and smell of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at a great distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch board.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
-- A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
-- Man!You may hate, but beware!Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.
-- The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brentliked India but he thought her mighty plain and tame, and he simply could not fall in love with her himself to keepStuart company.
-- "And after that fall hehad right here last year when he broke his knee.
-- Any man who was foolenough to fall for a simper, a faint and an "Oh, how wonderful you are!"
-- She made her way toward them and, in one of those odd silences which sometimes fall on a gathering, she heardWillie Guinan, of the militia outfit, say plainly: "Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroeshave died is not sacred?"
-- Of all the homes which had received him in the fall of 1862, Miss Pittypat's was almost the only one into whichhe could enter in 1863.
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