town是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 市镇； 市民； 城市商业区， 闹市区，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Byers pointed out the Dodsworths, who were often mentioned in Town Topics.
-- He viciously seized his cap (a soggy and doubtful object), sought Clif Clawson, who was spending the vacation in sleeping between poker games at Barney's, and outlined a project of going into town and getting drunk.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
-- For a whole month the town was full of gossip about this scandal, and it came to such a pass that Dounia and I dared not even go to church on account of the contemptuous looks, whispers, and even remarks made aloud about us.
-- The same morning without any delay, she went round to all the houses in the town and ev-erywhere, shedding tears, she asserted in the most flattering terms Dounia's innocence and the nobility of her feelings and her behavior.
-- The greenness and freshness were at first restful to his wea-ry eyes after the dust of the town and the huge houses that hemmed him in and weighed upon him.
-- He dreamt he was back in his childhood in the little town of his birth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- When I came, at last, upon thebare, wide downs near Dover, it relieved the solitary aspect of thescene with hope; and not until I reached that first great aim of myjourney, and actually set foot in the town itself, on the sixth day ofmy flight, did it desert me.
-- I have notbeen in town half a dozen hours, and those I have been dozing andgrumbling away at the play.'
-- But ifyou'll believe me, she has such a face of her own that half thewomen in this town are mad against her.'
-- with a dreadful shiver,'take me out of these streets, where the whole town knows me froma child!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- Mr. John Knightley must be in town again on the 28th, and we ought to be thankful, papa, that we are to have the whole of the time they can give to the country, that two or three days are not to be taken out for the Abbey.
-- She was not a woman of strong understanding or any quickness; and with this resemblance of her father, she inherited also much of his constitution; was delicate in her own health, over-careful of that of her children, had many fears and many nerves, and was as fond of her own Mr. Wingfield in town as her father could be of Mr. Perry.
-- 'And so she is to come to us next Friday or Saturday, and the Campbells leave town in their way to Holyhead the Monday following as you will find from Jane's letter.
-- On their first coming into the country, they had lived in pro-portion to their income, quietly, keeping little company, and that little unexpensively; but the last year or two had brought them a considerable increase of means the house in town had yielded greater profits, and fortune in general had smiled on them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every looker-on's inside shook with the blows of the great drum to his deepest vitals, and there was not a dry eye throughout the town among the public-house people and the nameless women!"
-- OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETINGFor dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.
-- But I'll see if you or anybody else in the village, or town either, dare do such a thing!"
-- The van ran to and from a town in a northern direction, and it was owned and driven by a Weatherbury man, at the door of whose house it now pulled up.
-- A heavy unbroken crust of cloud stretched across the sky, shutting out every speck of heaven; and a distant halo which hung over the town of Casterbridge was visible against the black concave, the luminosity appearing the brighter by its great contrast with the circumscribing darkness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
-- Having paid his debts, therefore, in the most honourable man-ner, he retreated with his daughter to the town of Lucerne, where he lived unknown and in wretchedness.
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