country是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 国家； 农村， 乡下，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand.
-- Some shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon their backs, who called to other boys in country gigs and carts, driven by farmers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
-- As a consequence, country airs circu-lated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.
-- 130 A tale of two cities Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable char-acteristics.
-- 158 A tale of two citiesVIII Monseigneur in the Country beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not Aabundant.
-- The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484.
-- In the country the vi-olin sounded in the room of the peasant; the newly-baked cakes were attacked; even the poorest child said, 'It is really delightful here in winter!'
-- The king of the country was also obser-vant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of 'Universal Bell-ringer,' even if it were not really a bell.
-- THE HAPPY FAMILY eally, the largest green leaf in this country is a dockleaf; Rif one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.
-- So they danced once more together; and she was about to declare herself, but she was discreet; she thought of her country and kingdom, and of the many persons she would have to reign over.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevitch could never quite make out, and indeed he took no interest in the matter.
-- But he (he knew very well how he must appear to others) was a country gentleman, occupied in breeding cattle, shooting game, and building barns; in other words, a fellow of no ability, who had not turned out well, and who was doing just what, according to the ideas of the world, is done by people fit for nothing else.
-- "Surely you must be dull in the country in the winter, aren't you?"
-- "You can't conceive how queer it all seems to a country person like me, as queer as that gentleman's nails I saw at your place..." "Yes, I saw how much interested you were in poor Grinevitch's nails," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laughing.
-- "Do try, now, and put yourself in my place, take the point of view of a country person.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master after his own heart.
-- "No country is safe for him."
-- "And in what country is Bombay?"
-- During the night the train left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next day proceeded over the flat, well-cultivated country of the Khandeish, with its straggling villages, above which rose the minarets of the pagodas.
-- The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By sheer brass and obstinacy he had, at fourteen, become the unofficial, also decidedly unpaid, assistant to the Doc, and while the Doc was on a country call he took charge--though what there was to take charge of, no one could ever make out.
-- Saturday evening they went solemnly to the motion pictures--one- and two-reel films with Cowboy Billy Anderson and a girl later to be famous as Mary Pickford--and solemnly they discussed the non- existent plots as they returned, unconscious of other people on the streets; but when they walked into the country on a Sunday (with four sandwiches and a bottle of ginger ale in his threadbare pockets), he chased her up-hill and down-gully, and they lost their solemnity in joyous childishness.
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