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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this he treated the body of Hector with contumely: he pierced the sinews at the back of both his feet from heel to ancle and passed thongs of ox-hide through the slits he had made: thus he made the body fast to his chariot, let-ting the head trail upon the ground.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Dr. Kemp, swinging round on his heel and walking back to his writing-table.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water.
-- All the Kanaka boys are dead now; one fell overboard of the launch, and one died of a wound-ed heel that he poisoned in some way with plant-juice.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned on his heel and walked away with the Lone Wolf, and as he looked up at the stars he felt happy.
-- Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding a constant application of his one armed heel to the flanks of the mare, the most confirmed gait that he could establish was a Canterbury gallop with the hind legs, in which those more forward assisted for doubtful mo-ments, though generally content to maintain a loping trot.
-- See, the heel has hardly touched the ground; and there the dark-hair has made a little jump, from root to root.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolmaster now bestowed both whip and heel upon the starveling ribs of old Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffling and snorting, but came to a stand just by the bridge, with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- The dwarf glanced sarcastically at his brazen friend, and, with a short dry cough, turned upon his heel to bid adieu to Miss Sally.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition, the heel of one of my shoes was loose, and a nail was working through the sole they were comfortable old shoes I wore about indoors so that I was lame.
-- I stood up and found my foot with the loose heel swollen at the ankle and painful under the heel; so I sat down again, took off my shoes, and flung them away.
-- Presently I got up and came through the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and feeling sorely begrimed.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us; all the brown had gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if anything can be; and upon my word, I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick.
-- And with that he turned on his heel and rejoined the other two.
-- They exchanged guns, and Trelawney, silent and cool as he had been since the beginning of the bustle, hung a moment on his heel to see that all was fit for service.
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