local是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 地方的， 当地的； 局部的，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：
-- Expressive sips of what made them poor, were not wanting; the tax for the state, the tax for the church, the tax for the lord, tax local and tax general, were to be paid here and to be paid there, according to sol-emn inscription in the little village, until the wonder was, that there was any village left unswallowed.
-- Awakened by a timid local functionary and three armed patriots in rough red caps and with pipes in their mouths, who sat down on the bed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Sergey Ivanovitch, who was greatly interested in these local boards and attached great importance to them.
-- All I say is, give such rights as our local self-government to any other European people--why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule."
-- Now in the local institutions I, as a nobleman, see nothing that could conduce to my prosperity, and the roads are not better and could not be better; my horses carry me well enough over bad ones.
-- The Sviazhskys' home-life was exceedingly pleasant, and Sviazhsky himself, the best type of man taking part in local affairs that Levin knew, was very interesting to him.
-- He considered the Russian peasant as occupying a stage of development intermediate between the ape and the man, and at the same time in the local assemblies no one was readier to shake hands with the peasants and listen to their opinion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the warrant should at last make its appearance at Hong Kong, Fix could arrest him and give him into the hands of the local police, and there would be no further trouble.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Barney's" was a poolroom, a tobacco shop and, since Mohalis was dry by local option, an admirable blind-pig.
-- "Dr. M. Arrowsmith of Wheatsylvania is being congratulated, we are informed by our valued pioneer local physician, Dr. Adam Winter, by the medical fraternity all through the Pony River Valley, there being no occupation or profession more unselfishly appreciative of each other's virtues than the medical gentlemen, on the courage and enterprise he recently displayed in addition to his scientific skill.
-- The citizens had formerly been agitated by his irreligion, his moral looseness, and his lack of local patriotism, but when they were prodded out of their comfortable and probably beneficial dirt, they exploded.
-- Look, Mart, Mrs. Watters and I want you and your wife--I believe you are married, aren't you?--to come up to the house for dinner, tomorrow evening, and I'll put you onto all the local slants."
-- Three Cigars a Day Week, which Pickerbaugh invented in midsummer, was not altogether successful, partly because an injudicious humorist on a local newspaper wanted to know whether Dr. Pickerbaugh really expected all babes in arms to smoke as many as three cigars a day, and partly because the cigar-manufacturers came around to the Department of Health with strong remarks about Common Sense.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Chillip, looking mildly at my aunt with his head on one side,and making her a little bow, said, in allusion to the jewellers'cotton, as he softly touched his left ear'Some local irritationma'am?'
-- But he repeated sweetly'Some local irritation, ma'am?'
-- I knew this meant,in our local dialect, like two young thrushes, and received it as acompliment.
-- The local influence ofmy family was quite unavailing to obtain any employment in thatdepartment, for a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities.
-- Our residence at Canterbury, andour local connection, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantageof any vacancy that may arise in the cathedral corps.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a magistrate, he had generally some point of law to consult John about, or, at least, some curious anecdote to give; and as a farmer, as keeping in hand the home-farm at Donwell, he had to tell what every field was to bear next year, and to give all such local information as 122 Emmacould not fail of being interesting to a brother whose home it had equally been the longest part of his life, and whose at-tachments were strong.
-- She went, however; and when they reached the farm, and she was to be put down, at the end of the broad, neat grav-el walk, which led between espalier apple-trees to the front door, the sight of every thing which had given her so much pleasure the autumn before, was beginning to revive a little local agitation; and when they parted, Emma observed her to be looking around with a sort of fearful curiosity, which determined her not to allow the visit to exceed the proposed quarter of an hour.
-- It was a long, well-written letter, giving the par-ticulars of his journey and of his feelings, expressing all the affection, gratitude, and respect which was natural and honourable, and describing every thing exterior and local that could be supposed attractive, with spirit and preci-sion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the name was soon taken up elsewhere as a local designation.
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- The first was a short paragraph in the local newspaper, which, beyond making by a methodizing pen formidable presumptive evidence of Troy's death by drowning, contained the important testimony of a young Mr. Barker, M.D., of Budmouth, who spoke to being an eyewitness of the accident, in a letter to the editor.
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