bottom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 底(部) ； 基础， 根基； 海底， 湖底， 河床，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Steerforth's place was at the bottom of the school, at the oppositeend of the long room.
-- It wasdown in Blackfriars, Modern improvements have altered the place;but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curvingdown hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where peopletook boat.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After Emma had talked about it for ten minutes, Mr. Woodhouse felt no unwillingness, and only made the usual stipulation of not sitting at the bottom of the table himself, with the usual regular difficulty of deciding who should do it for him.
-- Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty. The considerable slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradu-ally acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood; and at the bottom of this bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and handsome curve around it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the waggon had passed on, Gabriel withdrew from his point of espial, and descending into the road, followed the vehicle to the turnpike-gate some way beyond the bottom of the hill, where the object of his contemplation now halted for the payment of toll.
-- The wind came in at the bottom of the door, and to prevent it Oak laid a sack there and wheeled the cot round a little more to the south.
-- Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.
-- He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; took a new handkerchief from the bottom of his clothes-box, put on the light waistcoat patterned all over with sprigs of an elegant flower uniting the beauties of both rose and lily without the defects of either, and used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy, and inextricably curly hair, till he had deepened it to a splendidly novel colour, between that of guano and Roman cement, making it stick to his head like mace round a nutmeg, or wet seaweed round a boulder after the ebb.
-- The flames immediately ceased to go under the bottom of the corn-stack, and stood up vertical.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes, like those of a pitiless judge, seemed to go to the very bottom of all questions, to read all natures, all feelings and thoughts.
-- He knew the spotless nobleness of the lives buried away in the lonely manor house; he knew what trouble and what joy his request would cause his sisters, and how happy they would be as they talked at the bottom of the orchard of that dear brother of theirs in Paris.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Entreating him, therefore, to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
-- I lay at the bottom of the boat, and as I gazed on the cloudless blue sky, I seemed to drink in a tranquillity to which I had long been a strang-er.
-- But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We can go through Mr. O'Hara's river bottom andthe Fontaine's pasture and get there in no time."
-- As they picked their way across the red furrows and down the hill to the river bottom in the deepening dusk, Brentyelled to his brother: "Look, Stu!Don't it seem like to you that Scarlett would have asked us to supper?"
-- But even as she strained her eyes down the darkeningroad, she heard a pounding of hooves at the bottom of the pasture hill and saw the horses and cows scatter in fright.
-- Across the road would be new rail fences, inclosing fat cattle andblooded horses, and the red earth that rolled down the hillside to the rich river bottom land would gleam white aseiderdown in the sun cotton; acres and acres of cotton!The fortunes of the O'Haras would rise again.
-- As she reached the bottom step, she heard the servants moving about in the dining room under the butler's orders,lifting out the table and chairs in preparation for the dancing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- panted the sergeant, struggling at the bottom of a ditch.
-- If I had died at the bottom there," and he made an emphatic swing at the ditch with his manacled hands, "I'd have held to him with that grip, that you should have been safe to find him in my hold."
-- Chapter VIMy state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.
-- It was pleasant and quiet, out there with the sails on the river passing beyond the earthwork, and sometimes, when the tide was low, looking as if they belonged to sunken ships that were still sailing on at the bottom of the water.
-- At last his father disinherited him; but he softened when he was dying, and left him well off, though not nearly so well off as Miss Havisham.--Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."
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