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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The harpooner's family was originally from Quebec, and was already a tribe of hardy fishermen when this town belonged to France.
-- Others shaded with vivid calcareous reflections resembled a perfect town of marble.
-- They are they which, in the tempest of December 23rd, 1864, after destroying the town of Yeddo, in Japan, broke the same day on the shores of America.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands.
-- Birkin was absent, he had gone out of town again.
-- She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe.
-- He saw the town on the slope of the hill, not straggling, but as if walled-in with the straight, final streets of miners' dwellings, making a great square, and it looked like Jerusalem to his fancy.
-- Put your home address, and the date then 'Director of Education, Town Hall Sir ' Now then! I don't know how one really stands I suppose one could get out of it in less than month Anyhow 'Sir I beg to resign my post as classmistress in the Willey Green Grammar School.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sight of so many good-humoured faces (especially the blacks), the taste of the tropical fruits, and above all the lights that began to shine in the town made a most charming contrast to our dark and bloody sojourn on the island; and the doctor and the squire, taking me along with them, went ashore to pass the early part of the night.
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