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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain fell in such torrents that the town was scarcely visible through it.
-- At five in the evening they stopped in a gorge of no great depth, some miles above the little town of Loja, and encamped for the night at the foot of the Sierras, the first steppes of the great Cordilleras.
-- Behind this miniature town there lay 1,500 hectares of meadow land, bounded by an embankment of lava.
-- CHAPTER III CAPE TOWN AND M. VIOTAs John Mangles intended to put in at the Cape of Good Hope for coals, he was obliged to deviate a little from the 37th parallel, and go two degrees north.
-- "The first hypothesis I reject, then, to begin with, for Harry Grant could not have reached the English colonies, or long ago he would have been back with his children in the good town of Dundee."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
-- 'I can only think of the obvious conclusion that the man has practised in town before going to the country.'
-- We believe there has been a change from a town hospital to a country practice.
-- I thought that a few months among the distractions of town would send him back a new man.
-- 'He cannot leave town at present.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, my father learned the whole story at once, and Zaleshoff blabbed it all over the town besides.
-- There you will be comfortable and well taken care of; for I do not think, prince, that you are the sort of man to be left to the mercy of Fate in a town like Petersburg.
-- One day, when he had rid-den over to the town to see a creditor, the chief peasant of his village followed him shortly after, with the news that his house had been burnt down, and that his wife had perished with it, but his children were safe.
-- He went mad and died shortly after in the town hospital.
-- I rec-ollect I awoke from this state for the first time at Basle, one evening; the bray of a donkey aroused me, a donkey in the town market.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius.
-- Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them.
-- They forget the promise they made you when they set out from Argos, that you should not return till you had sacked the town of Troy, and, like children or widowed women, they murmur and would set off homeward.
-- The fierce Abantes held Euboea with its cities, Chalcis, Eretria, Histiaea rich in vines, Cerinthus upon the sea, and the rock-perched town of Dium; with them were also the men of Carystus and Styra; Elephenor of the race of Mars was in command of these; he was son of Chalcodon, and chief over all the Abantes.
-- BOOK IV ow the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon Nthe golden floor while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to the south window, threw it up, and leaning out stared down on the network of windows, beaded gas-lamps and shops, with its black interstices of roof and yard that made up the town at night.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've been in town two days, and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich.
-- He took it and bit it to see if it was good, and then he said he was going down town to get some whisky; said he hadn't had a drink all day.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They walked and walked for a half a day at least and at last they came to the town called the City of Simple Simons.
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