downstairs是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在楼下， 往楼下，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Decidedly not; once received a kick on the top of a stair-case, and fell downstairs of his own accord.
-- Its owner went downstairs into the courtyard, got into his carriage, and drove away.
-- But, in the stillness of the third hour of the morning, Lucie came downstairs again, and stole into his room; not free from unshaped fears, beforehand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not bring herself to call her maid, and still less go downstairs and see her son and his governess.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the St. Buryan was warped out into the river, as Martin was suggesting to his Commission, "How about going downstairs and seeing if we can raise a drink?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was meaning to go out, but suddenly, on the floor below, a door was noisily opened and someone began going downstairs humming a tune.
-- He must have seized the interval to get downstairs and slip by them somehow.
-- She went downstairs and returned with a white earthen-ware jug of water.
-- said Nas-tasya as he went out; then she opened the door and stood listening, but could not resist running downstairs after him.
-- He stopped there while the porter and others were go-ing upstairs, waited till they were out of hearing, and then went calmly downstairs at the very minute when Dmitri and Nikolay ran out into the street and there was no one in the entry; possibly he was seen, but not noticed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also informed me that when I was dressed, Iwas to come downstairs into the parlour, and have my breakfast.
-- I picture myself coming downstairs in the morning,and looking through a long ghastly gash of a staircase window atthe school-bell hanging on the top of an outhouse with a weather-cock above it; and dreading the time when it shall ring J. Steerforthand the rest to work.
-- On somebody's motion, we resolved to go downstairs to the dress-boxes, where the ladies were.
-- When I saw him going downstairs early in the morning (for, thankHeaven!he would not stay to breakfast), it appeared to me as if thenight was going away in his person.
-- But first I went downstairs to see Mr. Wickfield andUriah Heep.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear, dear anxious friend,' said she, in mental so-liloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, 'always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.'
-- Chapter XOne morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill's de-cease, Emma was called downstairs to Mr. Weston, who 'could not stay five minutes, and wanted particularly to speak with her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as it grew light enough to distinguish objects, Troy arose from the coverlet of the bed, and in a mood of absolute indifference to Bathsheba's whereabouts, and almost oblivious of her existence, he stalked downstairs and left the house by the back door.
-- Bathsheba cloaked the effects of the late scene as she best could, followed the girl, and in a few moments came downstairs with her hat and cloak on, ready to go.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When M. Goriot went downstairs with the lady, the stout Sylvie forthwith took her basket and followed the lover-like couple, under pretext of going to do her marketing.
-- He went part of the way downstairs and listened again.
-- Michonneau, and Poiret came downstairs together; possibly the scent of the gravy which Sylvie was making to serve with the mutton had announced breakfast.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shepushed open the door, listened and heard Mammy's heavy tread in the downstairs hall.
-- "Cathleen," said Scarlett, trying to pull the corsage of her dress higher, "who is that nasty man downstairs namedButler?"
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