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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It will be intolerable,' said he, 'if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals.
-- Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I had among them ten more such councillors, for the city of King Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it.
-- Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him.'
-- Go, then, and challenge him again but I should advise you not to do so, for if you are foolish enough to meet him in single combat, you will soon fall by his spear.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw Mrs. Hall fall down and Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tumbling over her, and then they heard the frightful screams of Millie, who, emerging suddenly from the kitchen at the noise of the tumult, had come upon the headless stranger from behind.
-- Jaffers had partially recovered from his fall and had gone home in the charge of his sympathetic friends.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a pow-erfully-built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution.
-- The skull rang loud, and the animal-man blundered into me, thrust me back with its hands, and went staggering past me to fall headlong upon the sand with its face in the water; and there it lay still.
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it; but always I fall short of the things I dream.
-- said Moreau, letting the curved instrument fall to his side again.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
-- The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence the click of one bamboo stem against the other, the rustle of something alive in the undergrowth, the scratch and squawk of a half-waked bird (birds are awake in the night much more often than we imagine), and the fall of water ever so far away.
-- Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep.
-- We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.'
-- The rain began to fall again, and for a while it was too misty to see what the troops were doing.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The delivery of these skillful rhymes was accompanied, on the part of the stranger, by a regular rise and fall of his right hand, which terminated at the descent, by suffering the fingers to dwell a moment on the leaves of the little vol-ume; and on the ascent, by such a flourish of the member as none but the initiated may ever hope to imitate.
-- Then, Hawkeye,' he continued, betraying his deep emotion, only by permitting his voice to fall to those low, guttural tones, which render his language, as spoken at times, so very musical; 'then, Hawkeye, we were one people, and we were happy.
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
-- I'm an admirator of names, though the Christian fashions fall far below savage customs in this par-ticular.
-- The Mohicans boldly sent back the intim-idating yell of their enemies, who raised a shout of savage triumph at the fall of Gamut.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
-- With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.
-- And you find some woman, coarse and low and vulgar, some beastly creature in whom all the horror of sex is blatant, and you fall upon her like a wild animal.
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