nation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 民族， 国家，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：
-- So quick was the Tribunal to compensate itself and the nation for a chance lost, that these five came down to him before he left the place, condemned to die within twenty-four hours.
-- The narrative called up the most revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a head in the nation but must have dropped before it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The nation must make the best physicians autocratic officials, at once, and that was all there was to it.
-- Boy, I'm going to take to the whole nation the Message I've tried to ram home here!"
-- Pickerbaugh looked as though that was not exactly the right response, but he recovered and caroled on: "I said to them, 'Gentlemen, I must warn you that I am not sure I possess the rare qualifications needful in a man who shall have the high privilege of laying down, at Washington, the rules and regulations for the guidance, in every walk of life, of this great nation of a hundred million people.
-- When Pickerbaugh had saved the health of the nation through all the smaller towns in the congressional district and had returned to Nautilus, Martin insisted on the quarantine of the infected milker and the closing of the Klopchuk Dairy till no more infection should be found.
-- He dashed about in motors, proclaiming, "I am not running because I want office, but because I want the chance to take to the whole nation my ideals of health."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And there's two religions going on in the nation now High Church and High Chapel.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of Parliament and liberty.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me, by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of their own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of their neighbour; yet our emperor, standing upon the advan-tage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech, in the Lilli-putian tongue.
-- {2} Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges upon which all government turns, yet I could never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput.
-- He likewise presented me with four hundred and forty-four large pieces of gold (this nation delighting in even numbers), and a red diamond, which I sold in Eng-land for eleven hundred pounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought I couldn't know whether it was a prosperous nation or not, and whether I was in a thriving state or not, unless I knew who had got the money, and whether any of it was mine.
-- You have made up your mind,' said Louisa, still standing before him where she had first stopped in all the singular contrariety of her self-possession, and her being obviously very ill at ease 'to show the nation the way out of all its difficulties.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were now in what the geological professors call a state of transition, in the period of Silurian stones, so called because this specimen of early formation is very common in England in the counties formerly inhabited by the Celtic nation known as Silures.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation.
-- It was not quite unanimously settled which; the Barnacles having their opinion, the nation theirs.
-- And this was the feature of the conversation which impressed Clennam, as a man not used to it, very disagreeably: making him doubt if it were quite right to sit there, silently hearing a great nation narrowed to such little bounds.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Letters, man-uscripts, books, and bundles can be passed in there, and as each nation has a key, it will be uncommonly nice, I fancy.
-- 'Don't you think the English nation perfect in every re-spect?'
-- Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great re-spect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in fer-ment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.
-- He read a long debate with the most amiable readiness and then explained it in his most lucid manner, while Meg tried to look deeply interested, to ask intelligent questions, and keep her thoughts from wandering from the state of the nation to the state of her bonnet.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among arch脙娄ologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
-- I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the harpooneer that has caused them.
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