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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our liberals are not Russian, nor are our conservatives, and you may be sure that the nation does not recognize anything that has been done by the landed gentry, or by the seminarists, or what is to be done either.'
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：
-- '* * As each nation of the Indians had its language or its dialect, they usually gave different names to the same plac-es, though nearly all of their appellations were descriptive of the object.
-- 'But the red Hurons are not deaf; and counsel that is fit for the great men of a nation would make the young war-riors drunk.
-- And when Le Subtil had shut the eyes and stopped the ears of his nation by his wisdom, did they not forget that they had once done him wrong, and forced him to flee to the Mohawks?
-- 'And what pleasure would Magua find in sharing his cab-in with a wife he did not love; one who would be of a nation and color different from his own?
-- Who shall say to the wife of Menowgua that the fishes have his scalp, and that his nation have not taken revenge!Who will dare meet the mother of Wassawattimie, that scornful woman, with his hands clean!What shall be said to the old men when they ask us for scalps, and we have not a hair from a white head to give them!The women will point their fingers at us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sulphuric acid is one of the agents the most frequently employed, and the manufacturing importance of a nation can be measured by the consumption which is made of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a man brings more honour to a nation than great captains.
-- "No, sir," he replied; "I cannot tell what nation she belongs to, for she shows no colours.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But," Gerald insisted, "you don't allow one man to take away his neighbour's living, so why should you allow one nation to take away the living from another nation?"
-- So we cover the earth with foulness; life is a blotch of labour, like insects scurrying in filth, so that your collier can have a pianoforte in his parlour, and you can have a butler and a motor-car in your up-to-date house, and as a nation we can sport the Ritz, or the Empire, Gaby Deslys and the Sunday newspapers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
-- But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had no clothes on but a seaman's waistcoat, a pair of open-kneed linen draw-ers, and a blue linen shirt; but nothing to direct me so much as to guess what nation he was of.
-- I had a mind once to try if he had any inclination for his own country again; and having taught him English so well that he could answer me almost any question, I asked him whether the nation that he belonged to never conquered in battle?
-- - My nation beat much for all that.
-- If your nation beat them, how came you to be taken?
-- - They more many than my nation, in the place where me was; they take one, two, three, and me: my nation over-beat them in the yonder place, where me no was; there my nation take one, two, great thousand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, that's all very fine to SAY, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ran- somed if we don't know how to do it to them?
-- 'I bet they didn't!Why, great goodness, there ain't no chance for 'em if they don't git off mighty quick!Why, how in the nation did they ever git into such a scrape?'
-- Why, what in the nation do you mean?
-- So, along in the afternoon, he says: 'Looky here, Bilgewater,' he says, 'I'm nation sorry for you, but you ain't the only person that's had troubles like that.'
-- 'Well, what in the nation do they call it the MUMPS for?'
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