suburban是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 郊区的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He resembled an earnest traveling-man who liked to get back to his suburban bungalow every Saturday evening.
-- No, he would be business-like!He applied to a Chicago teachers' agency, and received a stilted answer promising to look about and inquiring whether he would care to take the position of teacher of physics and chemistry in a suburban high school.
-- To McGurk, as to every scientific institution, came hundreds of farmers and practical nurses and suburban butchers who had paid large fares from Oklahoma or Oregon to get recognition for the unquestionable cures which they had discovered: oil of Mississippi catfish which saved every case of tuberculosis, arsenic pastes guaranteed to cure all cancers.
-- They sped out of the capital by white shell roads agonizing to the sun-poisoned eyes; they left the dusty shanties of suburban Yamtown for a land cool with bamboo groves and palmettoes, thick with sugar-cane.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop (like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards; it is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest, saddest city thou can'st see.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among our suburban resorts there are some which enjoy a specially high reputation for respectability and fashion; but the most careful individual is not absolutely exempt from the danger of a tile falling suddenly upon his head from his neighbour's roof.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far away were indications of suburban towns, some big smokestacks towering high in the air.
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