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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps you would not mind walking to town with me?'
-- It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
-- It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
-- All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had nothing to do but to walk about the pretty town and bay.
-- At seven in the morning we left Korsor, a little town on the western side of Seeland.
-- The night before, the worthy Mr. Thompson brought us the most cordial letters of introduction for Baron Trampe, Governor of Iceland, for M. Pictursson, coadjutor to the bishop, and for M. Finsen, mayor of the town of Reykjavik.
-- Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land.
-- The town lies on a flat and marshy plain, between two hills.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose I may as well stay the night,' said Hilda, pull-ing off her gloves, 'and I'll drive her to town tomorrow.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river.
-- But the teeth he set at the town, and the hand he shook at the town, brought the town no nearer; and the man was yet hungrier, and thirstier, and wearier, when his feet were on its jagged pavement, and he stood looking about him.
-- 'I was cautioned not to stay there, and so I left the town at once, and since then I have changed about.
-- To enable him to do which, without bias and with perfect freedom, I shall go out of town for a week."
-- And so, like the country mouse in the second year of a famine, come to see the town mouse, and timidly threading his way to the town-mouse's lodging through a city of cats, this old man passes in the streets.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Shall I rush into town and demand one?'
-- It was dreadful, and the worst of it was John went on so qui-etly afterward, just as if nothing had happened, except that he stayed in town later, and worked at night when she had gone to cry herself to sleep.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted.
-- I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
-- But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise?
-- There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
-- But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Early on the seventh morning after he had left his native place, Oliver limped slowly into the little town of Barnet.
-- If so, let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey, or he would not be invited to proceed upon such an expedition.
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