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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel and Robert, both alike children, though of different growth, were wild with delight as they inserted their heads in the national PONCHO, an immense plaid with a hole in center, and their legs in high leather boots.
-- The national party among the natives carried on an active propaganda for the election of a Maori ruler.
-- The Waikato is the national river in New Zealand.
-- Kai-Koumou was the only one of all the chiefs that obeyed the call of William Thompson, who had returned to the lake district, and he was the first to announce to his tribe the defeat of the national insurrection, beaten on the plains of the lower Waikato.
-- The moment they set foot on the deck of the DUNCAN, the piper blew his bagpipes, and commenced the national pibroch of the Malcolm clan, while loud hurrahs rent the air.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The athlete's lips curled disdainfully, and without honouring his adversary with a formal denial, he exhibited, as if by accident, that peculiarly Russian object an enormous fist, clenched, muscular, and covered with red hairs!The sight of this pre-eminently national attribute was enough to convince anybody, without words, that it was a serious matter for those who should happen to come into contact with it.
-- 'I was saying just now, before you came in, prince, that there has been nothing national up to now, about our lib-eralism, and nothing the liberals do, or have done, is in the least degree national.
-- 'I suppose you'll say there is nothing national about our literature either?'
-- If any Russian shall have done or said anything really and abso-lutely original, he is to be called national from that moment, though he may not be able to talk the Russian language; still he is a national Russian.
-- He hates the national customs, Russian history, and everything.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould, the probationary assistant in the National School, this theory took the form that the stranger was an Anarchist in disguise, preparing explosives, and he resolved to undertake such detective operations as his time permitted.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a sort of very sad seal National Anthem.
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：
-- Without assuming the supererogatory task of enter-ing into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the veteran in the approaching interview.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "芒聭赂芒聭赂 This picture, formerly in the possession of a wealthy manufacturer at Lille, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Immensely rich, sir; and I could, without missing it, pay the national debt of France."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Be happy," said the eider-down hunter, using his national salutation in his own language.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apartment of the jailer and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case the guillotine locked up.'
-- The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up the steps, and all the impounded travellers congregated together.
-- He put this second one so perseveringly that a stool and twelve shillings a week were at last found for Tip in the office of an attorney in a great National Palladium called the Palace Court; at that time one of a considerable list of everlasting bulwarks to the dignity and safety of Albion, whose places know them no more.
-- It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocution Office that had gradually led to its having something to do with everything.
-- That what the Barnacles had to do, was to stick on to the national ship as long as they could.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- **Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the crimes they were guilty of towards one another, I had nothing to do with them; they were national, and I ought to leave them to the justice of God, who is the Governor of nations, and knows how, by national punishments, to make a just retri-bution for national offences, and to bring public judgments upon those who offend in a public manner, by such ways as best please Him.
-- who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for na-tional crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
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