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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man is certainly a country prac-titioner.
-- We believe there has been a change from a town hospital to a country practice.
-- 'No mention of that local hunt, Watson,' said Holmes with a mischievous smile, 'but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.
-- The appearance of our visitor was a surprise to me, since I had expected a typical country practitioner.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince had been left an orphan when quite a little child, and Pavlicheff had entrusted him to an old lady, a relative of his own, living in the country, the child needing the fresh air and exercise of country life.
-- He only stayed at his country scat a few days on this oc-casion, but he had time to make his arrangements.
-- She suddenly displayed unusual decision of character; and without wast-ing time in thought, she left her country home and came up to St. Petersburg, straight to Totski's house, all alone.
-- An entirely new and dif-ferent woman sat before him, between whom and the girl he had left in the country last July there seemed nothing in common.
-- I began to ask questions about them, for I had never seen one before; and I at once came to the conclusion that this must be one of the most useful of animals strong, willing, patient, cheap; and, thanks to this donkey, I began to like the whole country I was travelling through; and my melan-choly passed away.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phorcys, again, and noble Ascanius led the Phrygians from the far country of Ascania, and both were eager for the fray.
-- Did you not from your a far country carry off a lovely woman wedded among a people of warriors to bring sorrow upon your father, your city, and your whole country, but joy to your enemies, and hang-dog shamefacedness to yourself?
-- I then killed Itymoneus, the valiant son of Hypeirochus, a dweller in Elis, as I was driving in the spoil; he was hit by a dart thrown by my hand while fighting in the front rank in defence of his cows, so he fell and the country people around him were in great fear.
-- As country peasants set their hounds on to a homed stag or wild goat he has taken shelter under rock or thicket, and they cannot find him, but, lo, a bearded lion whom their shouts have roused stands in their path, and they are in no further humour for the chase even so the Achaeans were still charging on in a body, using their swords and spears pointed at both ends, but when they saw Hector going about among his men they were afraid, and their hearts fell down into their feet.
-- As a man skilled in feats of horsemanship couples four horses together and comes tearing full speed along the public way from the country into some large town many both men and women marvel as they see him for he keeps all the time changing his horse, springing from one to another without ever missing his feet while the horses are at a gallop even so did Ajax go striding from one ship's deck to another, and his voice went up into the heavens.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at 'em!And a good country for boots, too, in a general way.
-- I've got my boots in this country ten years or more.
-- And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns doors standing that sunny weather entirely open money had been quietly and dexterously making off that day in handfuls and rouleaux, floating quietly along by walls and shady places, dodging quickly from the approaching eyes of men.
-- "I know what country I'm in," said the man with the beard.
-- The laws in this country against vivisection were very severe he might be liable.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he hurried on, keeping to the rough road that ran down the valley, and followed it at a steady jog-trot for nearly twenty miles, till he came to a country that he did not know.
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
-- He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to car-ry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the soldiers said, to the Abyssinian War medal.
-- There is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them, and catch them, and break them in, and send them up and down the country as they are needed for work.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now com-poses the United States.
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