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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was considered an unexceptionable place for obtaining the necessary food and rest: Host Trencher (as he was jauntily called by the local newspaper) being a substantial man of high repute for catering through all the country round.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.
-- When he had at last done and had appointed to send the articles to Mr. Pumblechook's on the Thursday evening, he said, with his hand upon the parlor lock, "I know, sir, that London gentlemen cannot be expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem it.
-- Whether Mr. Trabb's local work would have sat more gracefully on him than on me, may be a question; but I am conscious that he carried off his rather old clothes much better than I carried off my new suit.
-- 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."
-- The waiter (it was he who had brought up the Great Remonstrance from the Commercials, on the day when I was bound) appeared surprised, and took the earliest opportunity of putting a dirty old copy of a local newspaper so directly in my way, that I took it up and read this paragraph:--Our readers will learn, not altogether without interest, in reference to the recent romantic rise in fortune of a young artificer in iron of this neighborhood (what a theme, by the way, for the magic pen of our as yet not universally acknowledged townsman TOOBY, the poet of our columns!)
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wheth-er those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, nation-al, and other local customs?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But certain local causes may considerably modify this figure.
-- If the degree of heat increased instead of decreasing, as we approached the surface of the earth, it was simply because the causes were local and wholly due to volcanic influence.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wondered very much about him; he seemed so unlike a game-keeper, so unlike a working-man anyhow; although he had something in common with the local people.
-- We too have had our mild local excitement.
-- I had this particular bit of local garbage from our garbage bird, our ibis, our scavenging turkey-buzzard, Mrs Bolton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were brought into these foreign towns in the custody of couriers and local followers, just as the debtors had been brought into the prison.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pickwick, the president, read the paper, which was filled with original tales, poetry, local news, fun-ny advertisements, and hints, in which they good-naturedly reminded each other of their faults and short comings.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.
-- But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The subject matter of this conference was not disclosed in the parlour, but the kitchen was speedily enlightened concerning it; for Mr. Giles walked straight thither, and having called for a mug of ale, announced, with an air of majesty, which was highly effective, that it had pleased his mistress, in consideration of his gallant behaviour on the occasion of that attempted robbery, to deposit, in the local savings-bank, the sum of five-and-twenty pounds, for his sole use and benefit.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, 'YOU cannot have a right to such very strong local attach-ment.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you may be assured that I would not sacrifice one sentiment of local attachment of yours, or of any one whom I loved, for all the improvements in the world.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this particular evening he dined at "Rector's," a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied a basement at Clark and Monroe Streets.
-- He would visit the local resorts, or those near by in Wisconsin, and spend a few stiff, polished days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things.
-- On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia--a junket that was to last ten days.
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