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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus she passed under the level boughs.
-- The mouldy pile was dreary in winter-time before the candles were lighted and the shutters closed; the atmosphere of the place seemed as old as the walls; every nook behind the furniture had a temperature of its own, for the fire was not kindled in this part of the house early in the day; and Bathsheba's new piano, which was an old one in other annals, looked particularly sloping and out of level on the warped floor before night threw a shade over its less prominent angles and hid the unpleasantness.
-- Farmer Boldwood came to the stable-door and looked forth across the level fields.
-- The outskirts of this level water-meadow were diversified by rounded and hollow pastures, where just now every flower that was not a buttercup was a daisy.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has his hero, his great man, a professor at the College de France, paid to talk down to the level of his audience.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excellent friend!How sincerely did you love me and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own!A selfish pursuit had cramped and nar-rowed me until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses; I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would she find Tara like this, level with the ground, silent as the dead?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen, and how I had come up to bed from the kitchen, and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common doings.
-- Coming up again to the marsh level out of this excavation,--for the rude path lay through it,--I saw a light in the old sluice-house.
-- There was the red sun, on the low level of the shore, in a purple haze, fast deepening into black; and there was the solitary flat marsh; and far away there were the rising grounds, between which and us there seemed to be no life, save here and there in the foreground a melancholy gull.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king, who, as I before observed, was a prince of ex-cellent understanding, would frequently order that I should be brought in my box, and set upon the table in his closet: he would then command me to bring one of my chairs out of the box, and sit down within three yards distance upon the top of the cabinet, which brought me almost to a level with his face.
-- The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit, in point of high connexions, you are on a level with the aristocracy, did I say, or did I not say, to that fellow, "you can't hide the truth from me: you are not the kind of fellow I like; you'll come to no good"?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A manometer worked by compressed air, an instrument used to ascertain the upper atmospheric pressure on the level of the ocean.
-- The great and wondrous phenomenon then went on without violence--the outpouring was enormous, and the seething fused matter, ejected from the bowels of the earth, spread slowly and peacefully in the form of vast level plains, or what are called mamelons or mounds.
-- The bed was hard, the shelter unsatisfactory, the situation painful--lying in the open air, five thousand feet above the level of the sea!
-- This long vertical tube, which ends at the bottom of the crater of Sneffels, ceases here just about on a level with the sea."
-- The barometer, in fact, was about to become useless--as soon as the weight of the air was greater than what was calculated as above the level of the ocean.
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：
-- The last level rays of the sun touched the wood.
-- He could already see the two magnificent beeches which stood in this big level lozenge in front of the house, detaching themselves darkly in the dark air.
-- Ah, my boy!to keep up the level of the race, and to have work waiting for any man who cares to work! ' The old man was really moved.
-- A turn, and they ran on the high level to Stacks Gate.
-- The park gates, at the back, opened just near the level crossing of the col-liery railway; the Shipley colliery itself stood just beyond the trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if the aspiring city had become puffed up in the very ground on which it stood, the ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Yard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out of it by a low gateway into a maze of shabby streets, which went about and about, tortuously ascending to the level again.
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