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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men of business were hurrying along the streets; gold buyers were hastening to meet the in-coming escort; the precious metal, guarded by the local police, was coming from the mines at Bendigo and Mount Alexander.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical as-sistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.'
-- 'No mention of that local hunt, Watson,' said Holmes with a mischievous smile, 'but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.
-- His generous donations to local and county charities have been frequently chronicled in these columns.
-- 'The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.
-- A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too inconceivable a thing.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had served, at first, in one of the civil departments, had then attended to matters connected with the local government of provincial towns, and had of late been a corresponding member of several important scientific so-cieties.
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：
-- Most of them are of local use, and others quite peculiar to the particular class of men to which the character belongs.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
-- From his half-itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travel-ing gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to house, so that his appearance was always greeted with satisfaction.
-- Local tales and supersti-tions thrive best in these sheltered, long settled retreats; but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places.
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：
-- For some minutes there was an exchange of courtesies and some local gossip about the island, the prospects of copra and the vanilla crop; then we came to the object of my visit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was no cause for his agitation; the husband, as commander of the district where Nekhludoff's estates were situated, informed the latter of a special meeting of the local governing body, and asked him to be present without fail, and donner un coup d'脙漏paule in the important measures to be submitted concerning the schools and roads, and that the reactionary party was expected to offer strong opposition.
-- "The local police physician certified that the cause of death of said Smelkoff was rupture of the heart, caused by excessive use of liquor.
-- That the servant of said Hotel Mauritania, Euphemia Bochkova, deposited in her name in the local Bank of Commerce the sum of eighteen hundred rubles.
-- But it happened on Ascension Day that there was visiting his aunts a lady from the neighborhood with her two young daughters, her son and a local artist who was staying with them.
-- In the middle of the church stood the aristocracy; a country squire with his wife and son in a sailor blouse, the commissary of the rural police, a telegraph operator, a merchant in high boots, the local syndic with a medal on his breast, and to the right of the tribune, behind the squire's wife, Matriena Pavlovna, in a lilac-colored chatoyant dress and white shawl with colored border, and beside her was Katiousha in a white dress, gathered in folds at the waist, a blue belt, and a red bow in her black hair.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the tone in which he said this which made her feel as if she must record her feelings against any local habitation.
-- So when he got back to Chicago he repaired to his local lodge headquarters.
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