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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ought to stop in my corner, grind away at law, and never look to be anything but a boorish country magistrate.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What may not be expected in a country of eter-nal light?
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
-- The republican institutions of our country have 68 Frankensteinproduced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.
-- The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretch-ed appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
-- The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were 146 Frankensteinallowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives inthe open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
-- For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clayfields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
-- "Well, let's cut across country to Abel's," suggested Brent.
-- Gerald O'Hara was coming home across country and at top speed.
-- "Oh, Pa, that's such an Old Country notion!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe's forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,--most of them, at that time.
-- I remember Mr Hubble as a tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart: so that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane.
-- "I am not acquainted with this country, gentlemen, but it seems a solitary country towards the river."
-- "I am extremely sorry; but I knew there was a coach from your part of the country at midday, and I thought you would come by that one.
-- I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should be very silly,' said he, 'if I went to that shabby house, and left this charming place'; so he went into the smart house, and ate and drank at his ease, and forgot the bird, and his country too.
-- He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
-- I know nothing of where 14 Grimms' Fairy Talesthe pig was either bred or born; but he may have been the squire's for aught I can tell: you know this country better than I do, take my pig and give me the goose.'
-- All the day long she flew about in the form of an owl, or crept about the country like a cat; but at night she always became an old woman again.
-- 32 Grimms' Fairy TalesBRIAR ROSE king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country A a great way off, where there were in those days fairies.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
-- The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers.
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