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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'See here,' she said, in the same level way as before.
-- As Clennam followed, she said to him, with the same external composure and in the same level voice, but with a smile that is only seen on cruel faces: a very faint smile, lifting the nostril, scarcely touching the lips, and not breaking away gradually, but instantly dismissed when done with:'I hope the wife of your dear friend Mr Gowan, may be happy in the contrast of her extraction to this girl's and mine, and in the high good fortune that awaits her.'
-- I found that I had climbed the hill, and passed the level ground upon the top, and was descending quickly.'
-- 'What surprise,' he asked, keeping his left hand over his heart, and there stopping in his speech, while with his right hand he put his glasses exactly level on the table: 'what such surprise can be in store for me?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo lounged in her favorite low seat, with the grave quiet look which best became her, and Laurie, leaning on the back of her chair, his chin on a level with her curly head, smiled with his friendliest aspect, and nodded at her in the long glass which reflected them both.
-- 'I'm doing my best, ma'am, but can't get much higher, I'm afraid, as six feet is about all men can do in these degener-ate days,' responded the young gentleman, whose head was about level with the little chandelier.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions.
-- This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
-- Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.
-- Not very far distant Flask's boat was also lying breathlessly still; its commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead, a stout sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the level of the stern platform.
-- "As the Lakeman's bare head was just level with the planks, the Captain and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly called for the steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the companionway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Noah, whose top waistcoat-button might have been somewhere on a level with the crown of Oliver's head, rubbed his eyes with the inside of his wrists while this commiseration was bestowed upon him, and performed some affecting tears and sniffs.
-- 'If you don't take pocket-handkechers and watches,' said the Dodger, reducing his conversation to the level of Oliver's capacity, 'some other cove will; so that the coves that lose 'em will be all the worse, and you'll be all the worse, too, and nobody half a ha'p'orth the better, except the chaps wot gets them--and you've just as good a right to them as they have.'
-- Mr. Crackit stopped to take a draught of spirits and water, and to declare that the gin was excellent; then placing his feet against the low mantelpiece, so as to bring his boots to about the level of his eye, he quietly resumed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie, however, was not to be reduced to the common level of observation which prevailed in the flat.
-- Chapter IX CONVENTION'S OWN TINDER-BOX--THE EYE THAT IS GREEN Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick building of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the first floor sunk a very little below the level of the street.
-- He could scarcely pull himself down to the level where he would have to congratulate Carrie as a friend.
-- These thoughts raised her above the level of erring.
-- The road downward has but few landings and level places.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches a solid, level floor.
-- Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves.
-- Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head for a nigger.
-- Boggs and the men turned round to see who called him, and when they see the pistol the men jumped to one side, and the pistol-barrel come down slow and steady to a level both barrels cocked.
-- 'Your head's level agin, duke,' says the king; and he comes a-fumbling under the curtain two or three foot from where I was.
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