underground是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地铁a. 地下的； 秘密的ad. 在地下，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nor do I!They always try to bury me underground when there's anything going on; they don't seem to reflect that it is unpleasant to a man to be treated so!I won't stand it!
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter.
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：
-- Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind faces of people he had seen in his child-hood or met somewhere once, whom he would never have recalled, the belfry of the church at V., the billiard table in a restaurant and some officers playing billiards, the smell of cigars in some underground tobacco shop, a tavern room, a back staircase quite dark, all sloppy with dirty water and strewn with egg-shells, and the Sunday bells floating in from somewhere芒聙娄.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It looked there like a network of liquid threads which doubtless reached the river by some underground drain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little door out of which he had thrust his head was close to the inn larder; and there he stood, bowing with grotesque politeness; as much at his ease as if the door were that of his own house; blighting all the legs of mutton and cold roast fowls by his close companionship, and looking like the evil genius of the cellars come from underground upon some work of mischief.
-- How often am I to tell you that I brought him to you that I might always have my eye on him and know where he was and that I had a plot, a scheme, a little quiet piece of enjoyment afoot, of which the very cream and essence was, that this old man and grandchild (who have sunk underground I think) should be, while he and his precious friend believed them rich, in reality as poor as frozen rats?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why ye know I wouldn't harm a worm no, not one underground worm?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I thought of the flickering pillars and of my theory of an underground ventilation.
-- There were three circumstances in particular which made me think that its rare emergence above ground was the outcome of a long-continued underground habit.
-- There is a tendency to utilise underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilisation; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.
-- I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end !Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
-- Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Overworld people were to theirs.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rumor which had been creeping about underground was now being openly discussed, that Rhett Butler notonly ran his own four boats and sold the cargoes at unheard-of prices but bought up the cargoes of other boats and heldthem for rises in prices.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man took him by the hand, and led him through an underground passage, but he did not forget to take the blue light with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One would have fancied that the genii of romance were illuminating their underground palaces to receive the sons of men.
-- The waves broke incessantly--and with a peculiarly sonorous murmur, to be found in underground localities.
-- "Well," he said, after giving me time thoroughly to appreciate the marvels of this underground sea, "do you feel strong enough to walk up and down?"
-- Why should this vast underground sea be exempt from the general law, the rule of the universe?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the underground manager showing him the seam with a pow-erful torch.
-- He went down to the pit day after day, he studied, he put the general manager, and the overhead manager, and the underground manager, and the engineers through a mill they had never dreamed of.
-- There was something uncanny and underground about it all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and crept forth by some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that here, in the real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
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