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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is 11,000 feet, though, above the level of the sea."
-- CHAPTER XXI A FALSE TRAILTHE Sierra Tandil rises a thousand feet above the level of the sea.
-- Not a single elevated point was visible on the whole circle of the horizon, and on such level plains water would sweep along with fearful rapidity.
-- The level of the waters was sensibly rising, and less than two miles off the gigantic wave reared its crested head.
-- Long stretches of prairie, known as the "Low Level Plains," next met their gaze, dotted with countless sheep, and shepherds' huts.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To do so would be to descend to the level of these poor peasants, who are not content with a mere fiend dog but must needs describe him with hell-fire shooting from his mouth and eyes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was annoyed at the manner in which his gift had been returned, an though he had condescended, under the influence of passion, to place himself on a level with Ptitsin and Ferdishenko, his self-respect and sense of duty now returned together with a consciousness of what was due to his social rank and offi-cial importance.
-- 'Suddenly I heard behind me, and about on a level with my head, a sort of rattling sound.
-- I turned sharp round and saw that the brute had crawled up the wall as high as the level of my face, and that its horrible tail, which was mov-ing incredibly fast from side to side, was actually touching my hair!I jumped up and it disappeared.
-- I would kiss your footprints if I could; but, oh!I am not putting myself on a level with you! Look at the signature quick, look at the signature!'
-- Such men do not give up their aspirations after originality without a severe struggle, and there have been men who, though good fellows in themselves, and even benefactors to humanity, have sunk to the level of base criminals for the sake of originality.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neptune himself, tri-dent in hand, surveyed the work and threw into the sea all the foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with so much toil; he made all level by the mighty stream of the Hellespont, and then when he had swept the wall away he spread a great beach of sand over the place where it had been.
-- The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thunder-ing down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further even so eas-ily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely ser-ried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground; thereon he shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset.'
-- I am older and much stronger than he is; yet he is not afraid to set him-self up as on a level with myself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe.'
-- He would have you keep out of his reach, for he is older and much stronger than you are, and yet you are not afraid to set yourself up as on a level with himself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe.'
-- As a carpenter's line gives a true edge to a piece of ship's tim-ber, in the hand of some skilled workman whom Minerva has instructed in all kinds of useful arts even so level was the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought some round one and some round another.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By not looking down, however, I managed to walk on the level passably well.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked eagerly, my mind confused with many things, and presently found myself in a level place among scattered trees.
-- On our right, over a shoulder of bare rock, I saw the level blue of the sea.
-- Had I kept my courage up to the level of the dawn, had I not allowed it to ebb away in solitary thought, I might have grasped the vacant sceptre of Moreau and ruled over the Beast People.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him.
-- When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.
-- Little Toomai was too frightened to speak, but Kala Nag was behind him, and Toomai made a sign with his hand, and the elephant caught him up in his trunk and held him level with Pudmini's forehead, in front of the great Petersen Sahib.
-- We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.'
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