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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youngest son fell to the bottom of the river's bed: luckily it was nearly dry, but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he could find no way to get out.
-- Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.
-- The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it.
-- She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on tap, tap plash, plash from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the prin-cess sat.
-- 'Yes, truly,' replied the peasant, 'I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the bar-rel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought 162 Grimms' Fairy Talesthis flock away with me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the left pocket were two black pillars irregularly shaped: we could not, without difficulty, reach the top of them, as we stood at the bottom of his pocket.
-- It had a cock near the bottom to let out the water, when it began to grow stale; and two ser-vants could easily fill it in half an hour.
-- That the largest balls thus discharged, would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter 167the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships, with a thousand men in each, to the bottom of the sea, and when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.
-- The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box (for those were the strongest) preserved the bal-ance while it fell, and hindered it from being broken on the surface of the water.
-- Then they knocked off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which by reason of many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was at the bottom when she began to descend, and was in the street before she could take his arm.
-- Her feeble voice sounded so far away in her bundle of shawls, and the sound of another voice addressing her seemed to take such a long time in getting down to her ears, that she might have been lying at the bottom of a well.
-- When Louisa had arrived at the bottom and disappeared in the gulf, it might fall in upon her if it would; but, until then, there it was to be, a Building, before Mrs. Sparsit's eyes.
-- In the interest of seeing her, ever drawing, with no hand to stay her, nearer and nearer to the bottom of this new Giant's Staircase.
-- Very near the bottom now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, however, these worthy islanders had reached the bottom of the crater, they were to go back and leave us to ourselves.
-- We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater.
-- Nevertheless, I had still one hope, and that was, when once we were at the bottom of the crater, that it would be impossible in default of a gallery or tunnel, to descend any deeper; and this, despite all the learned Saknussemms in the world.
-- This mighty turf pit, measured from the bottom of certain ravines, is often not less than seventy feet deep, and presents to the eye the view of successive layers of black burned-up rocky detritus, separated by thin streaks of porous sandstone.
-- Fortunately, after an hour of unheard-of fatigues, and of gymnastic exercises that would have been trying to an acrobat, we came to a vast field of ice, which wholly surrounded the bottom of the cone of the volcano.
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 final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he WASan outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside.
-- 'Rock bottom!The bottom that has no bottom!The Bol-shevists will have the finest army in the world in a very short time, with the finest mechanical equipment.
-- It swerved at the bottom of the hill and disappeared; but it had such a lovely easy curve, of knights riding and ladies on palfreys.
-- This was the feeling that echoed and re-echoed at the bottom of Connie's soul: it was all flag, a wonderful display of noth-ingness; At the same time a display.
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