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：
-- They camped on the plateau that night, and next day the descent commenced.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She values her Muishkin descent very highly, if I am rightly in-formed.'
-- It was always a difficult thing to put this warrior to confusion, and his sudden descent left him as composed as before.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, then, is the descent I claim.'
-- And shall not I foremost of all goddesses both by descent and as wife to you who reign in heaven devise evil for the Trojans if I am angry with them?'
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：
-- While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced com-plexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.
-- First it runs smoothly, as if meaning to go down the descent as things were ordered; then it angles about and faces the shores; nor are there plac-es wanting where it looks backward, as if unwilling to leave the wilderness, to mingle with the salt.
-- That such had been the manner of their descent was rendered quite apparent to Duncan; for they now bore the light bark from the upper end of the rock, and placed it in the water, near the mouth of the outer cavern.
-- Nothing but the color of his skin had saved the lives of Magua and the conjurer, who would have been the first victims sacrificed to his own security, had not the scout believed such an act, however congenial it might be to the nature of an Indian, utterly unworthy of one who boasted a descent from men that knew no cross of blood.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their rapid descent alone had informed them of the dangers which they ran from the waves.
-- Their descent was visibly accelerated, and soon after midday the car hung within 600 feet of the ocean.
-- Since he was in doubt, it was best to take precautions against a possible descent of neighboring natives.
-- Chapter 12 They now began the descent of the mountain.
-- The explorers recognized on the opposite shore the point which they had visited on their descent from Mount Franklin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man of high descent may love the halls and lands of his inheritance as part of himself: as trophies of his birth and power; his associations with them are associations of pride and wealth and triumph; the poor man's attachment to the tenements he holds, which strangers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier root, struck deep into a purer soil.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time, and started out in the early morning towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium.
-- The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well, and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself, I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent.
-- Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful, I went on clambering down the sheer descent with as quick a motion as possible.
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 knew he was following the track towards the summit of the slopes, where was the Marienh脙录tte, and the descent on the other side.
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