backing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 倒退， 支持物，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：
-- Each was trying to make his own case good, and the people took sides, each man backing the side that he had taken; but the heralds kept them back, and the elders sate on their seats of stone in a solemn circle, holding the staves which the heralds had put into their hands.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's horrible,' said Kotick, backing water as a wave went over him, and steadying himself with a screw stroke of his flippers that brought him all standing within three inches of a jagged edge of rock.
-- He knew that there were elephants all round Kala Nag, and that there was no chance of backing him out of the assembly; so he set his teeth and shivered.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People were jammed against the curb, threatened by rearing horses and backing motors, and past them hurled the ambulance, blang-blang-blang-blang, with The Doctor holding a strap and swinging easily on his perilous seat.
-- Tubbs is backing me, and if Gottlieb did--I'd see that it was to Gottlieb's advantage.
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：
-- She began slowly backing away from him into the corner, staring intently, persistently at him, but still uttered no sound, as though she could not get breath to scream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ultimately Ifound myself backing Traddles into the fireplace, and bowing ingreat confusion to two dry little elderly ladies, dressed in black,and each looking wonderfully like a preparation in chip or tan ofthe late Mr. Spenlow.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Backing their oars and putting the boat about, they pulled towards him with a will, and in five or six minutes from the time of his first halloo, two of the sailors hauled him in over the stern.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room was but small, and the clients seemed to have had a habit of backing up against the wall; the wall, especially opposite to Mr. Jaggers's chair, being greasy with shoulders.
-- In one or two instances there was a difficulty respecting the raising of fees, and then Mr. Wemmick, backing as far as possible from the insufficient money produced, said, "it's no use, my boy.
-- I saw him through the window, seizing his horse's mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a skirmish in the narrow passage, occasioned by the footman's opening the door of the dismal dining-room with confidence, finding some one there with consternation, and backing on the visitor with disorder, the visitor was shut up, pending his announcement, in a close back parlour.
-- But John Baptist, widely staring, muttering a number of invocations and ejaculations, tremblingly backing into a corner, slipping on his trousers, and tying his coat by the two sleeves round his neck, manifested an unmistakable desire to escape by the door rather than renew the acquaintance.
-- If this arrangement should be objectionable, I'll ' and with the same smile he made a significant feint of backing away.
-- Next, Jeremiah Flintwinch, slowly backing to the door, with one hand in a pocket, and the other rubbing his chin, twisted himself out in his reticent way, speechlessly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!'
-- But as I was going to say, if thou wantest to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out.
-- I should like to see a boat's crew backing water up to a whale face foremost.
-- In that fine, loose, chivalrous attitude of the headsman when drawing near to his prey, the three mates stood up proudly, occasionally backing the after oarsman with an exhilarating cry of, "There she slides, now!Hurrah for the white-ash breeze!Down with the Yarman!Sail over him!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Sikes; backing the inquiry with a very common imprecation concerning the most beautiful of human features: which, if it were heard above, only once out of every fifty thousand times that it is uttered below, would render blindness as common a disorder as measles: 'what do you mean by it?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie looked at him in amazement, and then summoned sufficient thought to reply: "Why, I don't know you," backing away as she did so.
-- "Custer seems to have the backing of its members," observed the friend.
-- It was an ambulance, backing in.
-- "I can get backing for two hundred thousand dollars."
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