Ⅲ. Beneath“在……的下面”, 是旧用法的文学用语,现在很少用。相当于below,尤其相当于under. 如:They slept outside beneath the stars.
他们在户外的星空下安睡。
His wavy hair was too long and flopped just beneath his brow.
他的波浪式头发太长了,正好垂在他的眉毛下。
Snobs are usually contemptuous of people they feel to be beneath them.
势利者瞧不起他们认为地位在他们之下的人。
He yawned and curled his body down farther beneath the poncho.
他打了个呵欠,把身子再蜷拢点儿,往雨披里缩了缩。
In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity.
在过去,他在服从的外表下面隐藏着异端的思想。
They found the body buried beneath a pile of leaves.
他们在一堆树叶下面发现了那具尸体。
When I wake, a tatter of blue and green beneath my nails.
我醒来的时候,我指甲下有一缕蓝绿相间的碎布纤维。
Among the cavalcade of luggage passing beneath Florence's all-smelling nose is a nondescript hardback suitcase.
行李连续不断地从佛罗伦斯无所不查的鼻子下通过,其中有一个毫不起眼的硬皮手提箱。
Soon there were also flagstones beneath his shambling feet, uneven, fractured stone that nonetheless caught the light of the lantern-sphere with strange opalescence.
很快,在他的步履蹒跚的脚下,就出现了石板路,这些石头坑坑洼洼,处处断裂,在他手里水晶球的照射下,现出奇怪的乳白色光亮。
The sun went below the horizon.
太阳落到地平线以下。
The uterus was palpable 2 finger-breadths below the umbilicus.
子宫可以在脐下2指宽处触知。
Woods on a slope below an orchard may retard movement of cold air downward.
如坡地果园的下方有森林容易阻碍冷空气向下排出。
Dawn came glassy orange, stained from below by a gelatinous band of pale green.
天边是耀眼的橙红色曙光,下面点缀着一条凝胶状的淡绿色带子。
My performance is far below excellence.
我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。
The resistivity contours appear much less diagnostic of anomalous bodies below the surface.
地面下方的异常体,在视电阻率等值线上并无明显的反映。
A stalagmite is below a stalactite and they both grow, eventually to meet.
石笋在钟乳石下面,它们二者都在增长,最终会合。
In back of us were the woods, below a stretch of meadow, then the sea.
我们后面是树林,下面是一片草地,再过去就是大海了。
Their body temperature drops below thirty-five degrees Celsius.
他们的身体体温降到了三十五度以下。