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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The passage of the searching party gives ground,—one is almost tempted to say, excuse,—for a close and careful description of each country and of its inhabitants, step by step.
-- Doesn't the name of the country strike you even in the mere mention of it?"
-- "Some of the country people?"
-- In his eyes the interests of his country were not identified with those of the Anglo-Saxons, and to give scope for personal development, he resolved to found an immense Scotch colony on one of the ocean continents.
-- It will be the realization of my fondest dreams, to find myself in the country of elephants and Thugs."
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:
-- 'I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the whole of the valley, and reached into the country beyond.
-- The arrival of a new family in the country was always a matter of joy to him, and in every point of view he was charmed with the inhabitants he had now procured for his cottage at Barton.
-- The whole country about them abounded in beautiful walks.
-- You cannot think what a sweet place Cleveland is; and we are so gay now, for Mr. Palmer is always going about the country canvassing against the election; and so many people came to dine with us that I never saw before, it is quite charming!But, poor fellow!it is very fatiguing to him!for he is forced to make every body like him."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Street-car lines had been extended far out into the open country in anticipation of rapid growth.
-- Her mere experience and the free out-of-door life of the country caused her nature to revolt at such confinement.
-- She came fresh from the air of the village, the light of the country still in her eye.
-- The Boulevard at that time was little more than a country road.
-- How was it that, in so little a while, the narrow life of the country had fallen from her as a garment, and the city, with all its mystery, taken its place?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.
-- Says I, for two cents I'd leave the blamed country and never come a-near it agin.
-- Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to?
-- It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out.
-- Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me I'll never vote agin as long as I live.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After walking a half hour, he came to a small country called the Land of the Busy Bees.
-- "But is it really true that in that country boys never have to study?"
-- The thought that in a few hours they would reach a country where there were no schools, no books, no teachers, made these boys so happy that they felt neither hunger, nor thirst, nor sleep, nor discomfort.
-- The tongue was so wide and so long that it looked like a country road.
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