national是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 民族的， 国家的， 国立的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
-- Monseigneur (often a most worthy individual gentle-man) was a national blessing, gave a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example of luxurious and shining fife, 322 A tale of two citiesand a great deal more to equal purpose; nevertheless, Mon-seigneur as a class had, somehow or other, brought things to this.
-- The shining Bull's Eye of the Court was gone, or it would have been the mark for a hurricane of national bullets.
-- Every town-gate and village taxing-house had its band of citizenpatriots, with their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers, cross-questioned them, inspected their papers, looked for their names in lists of their own, turned them back, or sent them on, or stopped them and laid them in hold, as their capricious judgment or fancy deemed best for the dawning Republic One and Indivisible, of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw that Russia has splendid land, splendid laborers, and that in certain cases, as at the peasant's on the way to Sviazhsky's, the produce raised by the laborers and the land is great--in the majority of cases when capital is applied in the European way the produce is small, and that this simply arises from the fact that the laborers want to work and work well only in their own peculiar way, and that this antagonism is not incidental but invariable, and has its roots in the national spirit.
-- The mornings they spent driving to look at places of interest; the evenings they passed enjoying the national entertainments.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dear old Chum!That was when I was in Zenith to address the national convention of Congregational Sunday-schools, I happen to be a Congregationalist myself, on 'The Morality of A1 Health.'
-- He had edified the National Interurban Trolley Council, meeting at Wichita, on "Health Maxims for Trolley Folks."
-- III Over the Nautilus Cornfield's announcement was the vigorous headline: ALMUS PICKERBAUGH WINS First Scientist Ever Elected to Congress Side-kick of Darwin and Pasteur Gives New Punch to Steering Ship of State Pickerbaugh's resignation was to take effect at once; he was, he explained, going to Washington before his term began, to study legislative methods and start his propaganda for the creation of a national Secretaryship of Health.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's unavoidable!our national railways are of terrible length.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a verydragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as acredible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in atthe parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried byMiss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, andpounced upon before he could make his escape.
-- 'The friendliness of this gentleman,' said Mr. Micawber to my aunt,'if you will allow me, ma'am, to cull a figure of speech from thevocabulary of our coarser national sports- floors me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- Never since the broadsword became the national weapon had there been more dexterity shown in its management than by the hands of Sergeant Troy, and never had he been in such splendid temper for the performance as now in the evening sunshine among the ferns with Bathsheba.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoft-ened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.
-- I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'National Prosperity.
-- It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
-- Her father was usually sifting and sifting at his parliamentary cinder-heap in London (without being observed to turn up many precious articles among the rubbish), and was still hard at it in the national dust-yard.
-- He then returned with promptitude to the national cinder-heap, and resumed his sifting for the odds and ends he wanted, and his throwing of the dust about into the eyes of other people who wanted other odds and ends in fact resumed his parliamentary duties.
-- DOWNThe national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon an eminence close at hand was the national school, in which were taught Hebrew, English, French, and Danish.
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