descent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 下降， 降下； 斜坡； 血统， 家世，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have only to cross the top of the mountain chain, and once over, nothing can be easier of descent than the slopes we shall find there.
-- How long this indescribable descent would last, no one could calculate, nor what it would end in ultimately.
-- The descent of the Cordilleras was accomplished; and as Dame Nature had conveyed them at her own expense, they could only have praised her method of locomotion if one of their number, and that one the feeblest and youngest, the child of the party, had not been missing at the roll call.
-- Who was the child beside during our descent of the Cordilleras?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At heart and by descent an Aristo-crat, an enemy of the Republic, a notorious oppressor of the People.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By and by he madeanother descent upon us with the same inquiry, and the sameresult.
-- In the course of my descent to it, by the winding track alongthe mountain-side, from which I saw it shining far below, I thinksome long-unwonted sense of beauty and tranquillity, somesoftening influence awakened by its peace, moved faintly in mybreast.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches.
-- I knew that I ought to hasten my descent towards the valley, as I should soon be encompassed in darkness; but my heart was heavy, and my steps slow.
-- In truth, I was occupied by gloomy thoughts and neither saw the descent of the evening star nor the golden sunrise re-flected in the Rhine.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, they have now equipped a numerous fleet, and are just preparing to make a descent upon us; and his imperial majesty, placing great confidence in your valour and strength, has commanded me to lay this account of his affairs before you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed,' said she, 'if I could altogether cancel the remembrance that Mr. Sparsit was a Powler, or that I myself am related to the Scadgers family; or if I could even revoke the fact, and make myself a person of common descent and ordinary connexions; I would gladly do so.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT CHAPTER 3 AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 5 FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING CHAPTER 6 OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND CHAPTER 7 CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST CHAPTER 9 OUR START--WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS CHAPTER 14 THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE CHAPTER 18 THE WRONG ROAD!
-- If this singular torrent had not been checked in its descent by the peculiar shape of the flanks of the mountain, it would have swept into the sea, and would have formed new islands.
-- In order to render the descent less difficult, Hans took his way down the interior of the cone in rather a zigzag fashion, making, as the sailors say, long tracks to the eastward, followed by equally long ones to the west.
-- My uncle leaning over the abyss followed the descent of his luggage with a perfectly self -satisfied air, and did not rise until it had completely disappeared from sight.
-- The descent then commenced in the following order: Hans went first, my uncle followed, and I went last.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not on the same floor, for it was a room at the side of the house, which was approached by a steep descent of a few odd steps, diverging from the main staircase nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam's door.
-- Some dark specks in the snow, like knots upon a little thread, beginning at the convent door and winding away down the descent in broken lengths which were not yet pieced together, showed where the Brethren were at work in several places clearing the track.
-- The gorges of the Simplon, its enormous depths and thundering waterfalls, the wonderful road, the points of danger where a loose wheel or a faltering horse would have been destruction, the descent into Italy, the opening of that beautiful land as the rugged mountain-chasm widened and let them out from a gloomy and dark imprisonment all a dream only the old mean Marshalsea a reality.
-- From the days of their honeymoon, Minnie Gowan felt sensible of being usually regarded as the wife of a man who had made a descent in marrying her, but whose chivalrous love for her had cancelled that inequality.
-- The street was a sharp descent and was crooked too, and the man (who although not drunk had the air of being flushed with some strong drink) went down it so fast that Clennam lost him as he looked at him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same,' said Elizabeth angrily; 'for I have heard you ac-cuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of THAT, I can assure you, he in-formed me himself.'
-- It settled the matter; and they pursued the accustomed circuit; which brought them again, after some time, in a descent among hanging woods, to the edge of the water, and one of its narrowest parts.
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