level是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水平， 水准， 等级v. 弄平， 铺平a. 水平的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About on a level with his eyes, there sat, in that corner of the Judge's bench, two persons upon whom his look immediately rested; so imme-diately, and so much to the changing of his aspect, that all the eyes that were tamed upon him, turned to them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor was meantime with difficulty restraining the expression of his contempt for this old gentleman, and with difficulty condescending to the level of his intelligence.
-- The third circle with which Anna had ties was preeminently the fashionable world--the world of balls, of dinners, of sumptuous dresses, the world that hung on to the court with one hand, so as to avoid sinking to the level of the demi-monde.
-- The herd of improved cows such as Pava, the whole land ploughed over and enriched, the nine level fields surrounded with hedges, the two hundred and forty acres heavily manured, the seed sown in drills, and all the rest of it--it was all splendid if only the work had been done for themselves, or for themselves and comrades --people in sympathy with them.
-- And that's how it is the whole level of husbandry has fallen.
-- "I don't agree that it's necessary or possible to raise the level of agriculture still higher," said Levin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this strange country, where the people are certainly not up to the level of their institutions, everything is done "squarely" cities, houses, and follies.
-- At eleven in the morning the train had reached the dividing ridge of the waters at Bridger Pass, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-four feet above the level of the sea, one of the highest points attained by the track in crossing the Rocky Mountains.
-- The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could recall nothing save the philosophy of Max Gottlieb, occasional scoldings of Angus Duer, one out of ten among Madeline Fox's digressions, and the councils of Dad Silva which was above the level of Alec Ingleblad's barber-shop.
-- The Tredgold house was on the highest knoll (fully twenty feet above the general level of the plain) in Ashford Grove, which is the Back Bay of Nautilus.
-- D-darn it, I'm all choked up!I meant to orate a lot, but all I can say is--I love you all, I'm mighty grateful, I'll represent you my level best, neighbors!God bless you!"
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：
-- The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it; only in the far distance, a copse lay, a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon.
-- Without glancing at anyone, and not even nodding to Zossimov, who had for some time been making signs to him to let the sick man alone, he went out, lifting his hat to the level of his shoul-ders to avoid crushing it as he stooped to go out of the door.
-- Through the crack 芒聙娄' They were already at the foot of the last flight of stairs, at the level of the landlady's door, and they could, as a fact, see from below that there was a light in Raskolnikov's garret.
-- At last, moving on to a level with him, he looked at his face.
-- To say nothing of your strange and offensive setting me on a level with an- impertinent boy, you admit the possibility of breaking your promise to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had had a hard day's work, and was pretty well jaded when Icame climbing out, at last, upon the level of Blackheath.
-- In the space within thehorseshoe, lower than these, that is to say on about the level of thefloor, were sundry other gentlemen of Mr. Spenlow's rank, anddressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them, sittingat a long green table.
-- Hisrepudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess ofits surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs.Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated atabout the level of low water-mark, soothed in her slumbers by theticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred mewhen we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, andwhich was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, andhad always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
-- He had gone away rejected and mortified disappointed in a very san-guine hope, after a series of what appeared to him strong encouragement; and not only losing the right lady, but find-ing himself debased to the level of a very wrong one.
-- If I had followed her judg-ment, and subdued my spirits to the level of what she deemed proper, I should have escaped the greatest unhappiness I have ever known. We quarrelled. Do you remember the morning spent at Donwell? There every little dissatisfac-tion that had occurred before came to a crisis.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.
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