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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they went downstairs the general regretted repeatedly that he had failed to introduce the prince to his friends.
-- Many of them expected to be thrown downstairs at once, without further ceremony, the elegant arid irresist-ible Zaleshoff among them.
-- I was very little better off than she, but I sat up night after night with her, and nursed both mother and child; I used to go downstairs and steal wood for them from the house-por-ter.
-- Here there was a frantic noise upstairs once more; sev-eral people seemed to be rushing downstairs at once.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood there in the hall undecided what to do, and Mrs. Bunting, her face white and intent, crept slowly downstairs after him.
-- He tried to resume his work, failed, got up, went downstairs from his study to the landing, rang, and called over the balustrade to the housemaid as she appeared in the hall below.
-- He rose, yawned, and went downstairs to bed.
-- He turned out his drawers for the articles, and then went downstairs to ransack his larder.
-- CHAPTER XXI IN OXFORD STREET "In going downstairs the first time I found an unexpected difficulty because I could not see my feet; indeed I stumbled twice, and there was an unaccustomed clumsiness in gripping the bolt.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wondered as I preceded him downstairs what had happened to the little lady in the tea-shop.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same instant my mother, alarmed by the cries and fighting, came running downstairs to help me.
-- He got downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing through his nose, and no one dared to cross him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last she saw Gudrun coming, and she ran downstairs to warn her father and Gerald.
-- They went downstairs quickly.
-- And she began to move downstairs as Ursula ran up.
-- Then suddenly he went downstairs for a book.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.
-- Lockwood,' he added, 'you may go into my room: you'll only be in the way, coming downstairs so early: and your childish outcry has sent sleep to the devil for me.
-- He shall have his share of my hand, if I catch him downstairs till dark,' cried Hindley.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Downstairs things were stirring again.
-- "Olsen," said the manager, "is there anything downstairs you could find for this man to do?
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