heel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 脚后跟， 踵， 鞋跟，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, af-ter an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He planted his heel upon the body and drew out his spear, but the darts pressed so heavily upon him that he could not strip the goodly armour from his shoulders.
-- The hero was sleeping upon the skin of an ox, with a piece of fine carpet under his head; Nestor went up to him and stirred him with his heel to rouse him, upbraiding him and urging him to bestir himself.
-- He fell backwards to the ground, and Menelaus set his heel upon him, stripped him of his armour, and vaunted over him saying, 'Even thus shall you Trojans leave the ships of the Achaeans, proud and insatiate of battle though you be, nor shall you lack any of the disgrace and shame which you have heaped upon myself.
-- Patroclus planted his heel on his breast and drew the spear from his body, where-on his senses came out along with it, and he drew out both spear-point and Sarpedon's soul at the same time.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's a long while since we've seen you here, sir," said the attendant, supporting his foot, and screwing on the heel of the skate.
-- With a face hideous with passion, his lower jaw trembling, and his cheeks white, Vronsky kicked her with his heel in the stomach and again fell to tugging at the rein.
-- The act was over when he went in, and so he did not go straight to his brother's box, but going up to the first row of stalls stopped at the footlights with Serpuhovskoy, who, standing with one knee raised and his heel on the footlights, caught sight of him in the distance and beckoned to him, smiling.
-- "At home for sure," said the peasant, shifting from one bare foot to the other, and leaving a distinct print of five toes and a heel in the dust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden,in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little oneindeed, and not worth darning.
-- 'With the exception of the heel of a Dutch cheese- which is notadapted to the wants of a young family'- said Mrs. Micawber,'there is really not a scrap of anything in the larder.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
-- It has been observed in the musical circles of Weatherbury and its vicinity that this melody, at the end of three-quarters of an hour of thunderous footing, still possesses more stimulative properties for the heel and toe than the majority of other dances at their first opening.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, he was detestable!She swung round on her heel and marched into the house.
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 new Achilles in hint had a heel, and in this heel the woman, the woman like Connie, his wife, could lame him fatally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog, with a ferocious bark, made one other struggle as Blandois vanished; then, in the moment of the dog's submission, the master, little less angry than the dog, felled him with a blow on the head, and standing over him, struck him many times severely with the heel of his boot, so that his mouth was presently bloody.
-- Arthur looked at him again in no more flattering manner than before, and, turning on his heel without acknowledgment, went up-stairs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That stupid high heel turned and gave me a sad wrench.
-- They were early, and while Miss Crocker set the heel of her stocking, Jo amused herself by examining the faces of the people who occupied the seat with them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest uninterrupted labors, which know no night; continuing straight through for ninety-six hours; when from the boat, where they have swelled their wrists with all day rowing on the Line, they only step to the deck to carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass, and cut and slash, yea, and in their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the combined fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works; when, on the heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves to cleanse the ship, and make a spotless dairy room of it; many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of "There she blows!"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he asked, lingering a moment as he turned upon his heel to go into the bathroom.
-- He was just finishing when she turned on her heel and went out into the hall and upstairs.
-- Their hair was but half attended to, their ears anaemic in hue, and their shoes broken in leather and run down at heel and toe.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim and me was in a sweat again for a minute, being afraid there was going to be some more trouble amongst them; so we was pretty glad when the duke says: 'Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression.
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