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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While there he heard excited whispers of someone just found at the bottom of the stairs in a fit; upon which he had hurried to the spot, with a presentiment of evil, and at once recognized the prince.
-- (But that he is an 'idiot,' at bottom there can be no doubt whatever.)
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hecuba took out the largest robe, and the one that was most beautifully enriched with embroidery, as an offering to Minerva: it glittered like a star, and lay at the very bottom of the chest.
-- Hector then took aim at Ajax with a spear, but he saw it coming and just managed to avoid it; the spear passed on and struck Schedius son of noble Iphi-tus, captain of the Phoceans, who dwelt in famed Panopeus and reigned over much people; it struck him under the mid-dle of the collar-bone the bronze point went right through him, coming out at the bottom of his shoulder-blade, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.
-- Then Achil-les gave a loud cry and his mother heard him as she was sitting in the depths of the sea by the old man her father, whereon she screamed, and all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her.
-- Down she plunged into the dark sea midway between Samos and rocky Imbrus; the waters hissed as they closed over her, and she sank into the bottom as the lead at the end of an ox-horn, that is sped to carry death to fishes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bed-clothes gathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, and then jumped headlong over the bottom rail.
-- CHAPTER XVI IN THE "JOLLY CRICKETERS" The "Jolly Cricketers" is just at the bottom of the hill, where the tram-lines begin.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage.
-- I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea.
-- In a passion of despair I struck with my fists at the water in the bottom of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale.
-- One had a shock of red hair, like the cap-tain of the 'Ipecacuanha,' and a dirty white cap lay in the bottom of the boat.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hunt among the plowed fields tonight,' and he plunged down-ward through the bushes, to the stream at the bottom of the valley.
-- Nag knew that too and, at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid.
-- At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moon-light.
-- Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death.
-- The grass began to get squashy, and Kala Nag's feet sucked and squelched as he put them down, and the night mist at the bottom of the valley chilled Little Toomai.
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：
-- Some were fished from the bottom of the lake; some have been rusting in woods since the discovery of the country; and some were never guns at all mere privateersmen's playthings!Do you think, sir, you can have Woolwich Warren in the midst of a wil-derness, three thousand miles from Great Britain?'
-- We will follow with a small guard, for such respect is due to one who holds the honor of his king in keeping; and hark'ee, Duncan,' he added, in a half whisper, though they were alone, 'it may be prudent to have some aid at hand, in case there should be treachery at the bottom of it all.'
-- 'Get you, then, into the bottom of the canoe,' returned the scout; 'you and the colonel; it will be so much taken from the size of the mark.'
-- Their route now lay along the bottom which has already been mentioned.
-- After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The neighbors looked upon him with a mixture of awe, admiration, and good-will; and, when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity, always shook their heads, and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that the balloon could no longer support itself!Several times already had the crests of the enormous billows licked the bottom of the net, making it still heavier, and the balloon o nly half rose, like a bird with a wounded wing.
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