southern是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 南方的， 南部的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result of that conference was, that Gabelle again withdrew himself to his housetop behind his stack of chimneys; this time re-solved, if his door were broken in (he was a small Southern 330 A tale of two citiesman of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head fore-most over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.
-- So much more wicked and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the vio-lently drowned by night, and prisoners were shot in lines and squares under the southern wintry sun.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The further he rode, the happier he became, and plans for the land rose to his mind each better than the last; to plant all his fields with hedges along the southern borders, so that the snow should not lie under them; to divide them up into six fields of arable and three of pasture and hay; to build a cattle yard at the further end of the estate, and to dig a pond and to construct movable pens for the cattle as a means of manuring the land.
-- It was the post of secretary of the committee of the amalgamated agency of the southern railways, and of certain banking companies.
-- "Oh, by the way," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, "I wanted to ask you, some time when you see Pomorsky, to drop him a hint that I should be very glad to get that new appointment of secretary of the committee of the amalgamated agency of the southern railways and banking companies."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made up his mind that the robber had stopped somewhere on the route and taken refuge in the southern provinces.
-- It was in 1862 that, in spite of the Southern Members of Congress, who wished a more southerly route, it was decided to lay the road between the forty-first and forty-second parallels.
-- On leaving Omaha, it passes along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuilla Valley, across the American Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile.
-- The last ranks of the herd were now passing over the rails, while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon.
-- The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being Laramie Peak.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They parted at four, tearfully swearing to meet again, in Minnesota or Stockholm, in Rio or on the southern seas, and Martin started for Wheatsylvania to put an end to all this nonsense of allowing people to be ill. And the great god Sondelius had slain Dean Silva, as Silva had slain Gottlieb, Gottlieb had slain "Encore" Edwards the playful chemist, Edwards had slain Doc Vickerson, and Vickerson had slain the minister's son who had a real trapeze in his barn.
-- Martin was edified by an item which showed that among all families divorced in Ontario, Tennessee, and Southern Wyoming in 1912, the appalling number of fifty-three per cent of the husbands drank at least one glass of whisky daily.
-- It is a little isle of the southern West Indies, but St. Hubert supports a hundred thousand people-- English planters and clerks, Hindu road-makers, Negro cane-hands, Chinese merchants.
-- VII In St. Swithin's Parish the cocoa and bamboo groves and sharp hills of southern St. Hubert gave way to unbroken cane-fields.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To-night these trees sheltered the southern slope from the keenest blasts, which smote the wood and floundered through it with a sound as of grumbling, or gushed over its crowning boughs in a weakened moan.
-- The Dog-star and Aldebaran, pointing to the restless Pleiades, were half-way up the Southern sky, and between them hung Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the landscape.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene de Rastignac was a thoroughly southern type; he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair.
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
-- With the impetuosity of his adventurous southern temper, he did all he could to cultivate an acquaintance with this lovely countess, making the best of his opportunities in the quadrille and during a waltz that she gave him.
-- The time seemed long; he would have left the house but for the southern tenacity of purpose which works miracles when it is single-minded.
-- The mighty name had all the power of a fairy's wand; those closed compartments in the southern brain flew open again; Rastignac's carefully drilled faculties returned.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shall I meet you again, after having traversed immense seas, and returned by the most southern cape of Africa or America?
-- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
-- Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was 265full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage ex-hibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome.
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