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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the high white steeple of the town met 42 Frankensteinmy eyes.
-- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
-- I felt this delay very bitterly, for I longed to see my native town and my beloved friends.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day.
-- Part Two CHAPTER VIII AS THE TRAIN carried Scarlett northward that May morning in 1862, she thought that Atlanta couldn't possiblybe so boring as Charleston and Savannah had been and, in spite of her distaste for Miss Pittypat and Melanie, shelooked forward with some curiosity toward seeing how the town had fared since her last visit, in the winter before thewar began.
-- Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her thatshe and Atlanta were exactly the same age.
-- She discovered when she grew older that Gerald had stretched the truthsomewhat, as was his habit when a little stretching would improve a story; but Atlanta was only nine years older thanshe was, and that still left the place amazingly young by comparison with any other town she had ever heard of.
-- In thenine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until theyear of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For you do not know that Uncle Pumblechook, being sensible that for anything we can tell, this boy's fortune may be made by his going to Miss Havisham's, has offered to take him into town to-night in his own chaise-cart, and to keep him to-night, and to take him with his own hands to Miss Havisham's to-morrow morning.
-- At breakfast-time my sister declared her intention of going to town with us, and being left at Uncle Pumblechook's and called for "when we had done with our fine ladies"--a way of putting the case, from which Joe appeared inclined to augur the worst.
-- The Justices were sitting in the Town Hall near at hand, and we at once went over to have me bound apprentice to Joe in the Magisterial presence.
-- When I went to Lunnon town sirs, Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul Wasn't I done very brown sirs?
-- Now, as to Orlick; he had gone to town exactly as he told us when we picked him up at the turnpike, he had been seen about town all the evening, he had been in divers companies in several public-houses, and he had come back with myself and Mr. Wopsle.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
-- 'The whole town shall know of this!'
-- At last one took the other aside, and said, 'That little urchin will make our fortune, if we can get him, and carry him about from town to town as 140 Grimms' Fairy Talesa show; we must buy him.'
-- They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.
-- When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the same errand; and, in spite of my guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand at several times, who mounted my body by the help of lad-ders.
-- I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.
-- The town is capable of hold-ing five hundred thousand souls: the houses are from three to five stories: the shops and markets well provided.
-- Upon these, and the like reason-ings, their opinion is, that parents are the last of all others to be trusted with the education of their own children; and therefore they have in every town public nurseries, where all parents, except cottagers and labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared and educat-ed, when they come to the age of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to have some rudiments of docil-ity.
-- My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
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