floor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地板， (楼房) 的层，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her andclasping her hands upon it Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on theopposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less fromcontact with the hard floor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But such a--" he moved his chair and looked about the floor between us, and then again at me--"such a most oncommon Bolt as that!"
-- By that time, I was staggering on the kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.
-- It was full of people; the whole village was there, or in the yard; and there was a surgeon, and there was Joe, and there were a group of women, all on the floor in the midst of the kitchen.
-- This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the banquet off; for while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury,--being entirely furnished forth from the coffee-house,--the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character; imposing on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in the arm-chair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coal-scuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next room,--where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night.
-- Nor did the counting-house where Herbert assisted, show in my eyes as at all a good Observatory; being a back second floor up a yard, of a grimy presence in all particulars, and with a look into another back second floor, rather than a look out.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them.
-- When they were all ready, they went and looked at the soldier; but he snored on, and did not stir hand or foot: so they thought they were quite safe; and the eldest went up to her own bed and clapped her hands, and the bed sank into the floor and a trap-door flew open.
-- The old woman then mixed a sleeping draught with their wine, and before long they were all lying on the floor of the cellar, fast asleep and snoring.
-- Now all this time the ale was running too, for Cathe-rine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
-- So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any ac-cident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt, when I went in a coach.
-- Glumdalclitch stood on a stool on the floor near my table, to assist and take care of me.
-- This is the court style, and I found it to be more than matter of form: for, upon my admittance two days af-ter my arrival, I was commanded to crawl upon my belly, and lick the floor as I advanced; but, on account of my be-ing a stranger, care was taken to have it made so clean, that the dust was not offensive.
-- Nay, sometimes the floor is strewed with dust on purpose, when the person to be ad-mitted happens to have powerful enemies at court; and I have seen a great lord with his mouth so crammed, that when he had crept to the proper distance from the throne; he was not able to speak a word.
-- There 258 Gulliver's Travelsis indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether ap-prove of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a dead-ly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she saw them all assembled, and saw their looks, and saw no father there, she broke into a most deplorable cry, and took refuge on the bosom of the most accomplished tight-rope lady (herself in the family-way), who knelt down on the floor to nurse her, and to weep over her.
-- And he stopped, and the dog was bloody, and father lay down crying on the floor with the dog in his arms, and the dog licked his face.'
-- What warning did I give that fellow, the first time he set foot in the house, when the express object of his visit was to know how he could knock Religion over, and floor the Established Church?
-- She made him no answer, lying before him on her bed, still half-dressed, much as he had seen her lying on the floor of his room last night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sleeping place, made of all our traveling bedding, was in a charming grotto, adorned with magnificent stalagmites, glittering in all the colors of the rainbow, the floor of soft and silvery sand.
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：
-- Connie had a sitting-room on the third floor, the top floor of the central portion of the house.
-- He went to the hut, and wrapped himself in the blanket and lay on the floor to sleep.
-- But the board floor was scrubbed clean.
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