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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thence his eyes wandered over the town to far away where the ships' lights shone, and the pier glowed a little illuminated, facetted pavilion like a gem of yellow light.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the rea-son he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.
-- We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- n the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent Ithe eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently short-ened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came back to town in September to let his partner go away, and Amy stayed on in the country.
-- You see, we only came up to town the day before they had to go back to school.
-- Wellington is trim and neat and English; it reminds you of a seaport town on the South Coast.
-- The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
-- His account of their discoveries in the low life of a seaport town would have made a charming book, and in the various characters that came their way the student might easily have found matter for a very complete dictionary of rogues.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not having been able to leave the town before the first operations of the siege, he found himself shut up, to his great disgust; but, not accustomed to succumb to difficulties, he resolved to escape by some means or other.
-- The streets of the town were deserted.
-- It was a flat tableland like that above Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, but of reduced proportions; at least so it appeared seen from the islet.
-- It was better to be with Cyrus in a desert island, than without him in the most flourishing town in the United States.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
-- The roads are closing so fast in every direction, that in a month's time, unless my aunt sends me a remittance, I shall have to go three or four miles out of town to get over the way.'
-- CHAPTER 15Often, while they were yet pacing the silent streets of the town on the morning of their departure, the child trembled with a mingled sensation of hope and fear as in some far-off figure imperfectly seen in the clear distance, her fancy traced a likeness to honest Kit.
-- The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
-- 'How far is it to any town or village?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wrote that she would be in town between three and six o'clock p.m., and wait for him at the "Hotel Italia."
-- Bochkova was forty-two years old, a burgess of the town of Koloma; by occupation a servant--in the same Hotel Mauritania.
-- Are you not a member of the Krasnopersk town council?"
-- You know, the one who made such strange suggestions in the Krasnopersk town council.
-- "I have seen once a peasant flogged in the town hall.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His name is Haigha, and he lives ''He lives on the Hill,' the King remarked simply, without the least idea that he was joining in the game, while Alice was still hesitating for the name of a town beginning with H. 'The other Messenger's called Hatta.
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