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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- These were traits ofwhich Southern women were proud.
-- The destination of the proposed railroad,Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, ayear later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus,had begun.
-- Visitors added excitement and variety tothe slow-moving Southern life and they were always welcome.
-- What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do to make those about them feel at easeand pleased with themselves.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he, being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened the day following: for the southern wind, called the southern monsoon, began to set in.
-- However, I did then believe us to be about 10 degrees southward of the Cape of Good Hope, or about 45 degrees southern latitude, as I gathered from some general words I overheard among them, being I supposed to the south-east in their intended voyage to Madagascar.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is about the proportion found in most southern languages, the idioms of the north being much more rich in consonants.
-- We may confidently predict, therefore, that we have to deal with a southern dialect."
-- On the eighth day, the captain made out Myganness, the westernmost of the isles, and from that moment headed direct for Portland, a cape on the southern shores of the singular island for which we were bound.
-- This native of Iceland was active and supple in appearance, though he scarcely moved his arms, being in fact one of those men who despise the habit of gesticulation common to southern people.
-- Now, the understanding was, that he was to take us to the village of Stapi, situated on the southern slope of the peninsula of Sneffels, at the very foot of the volcano.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He glanced at it swiftly, with his hot, southern blue eyes, then glanced again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since.
-- cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his fingers, as if he were threatening to tear him to pieces.
-- There, a great table in a great room was soon profusely covered with a superb repast; and the quarantine quarters became bare indeed, remembered among dainty dishes, southern fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Genoa, snow from the mountain tops, and all the colours of the rainbow flashing in the mirrors.
-- Receive at parting;' here he gave him a southern embrace, and kissed him soundly on both cheeks; 'the word of a gentleman!By a thousand Thunders, you shall see me again!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She watched him for a moment with artistic pleasure, thinking how like an Italian he looked, as he lay basking in the sun with uncovered head and eyes full of southern dreaminess, for he seemed to have forgotten her and fallen into a reverie.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
-- Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
-- In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
-- Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow's-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.
-- But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have mentioned that I had saved the few ears of bar-ley and rice, which I had so surprisingly found spring up, as I thought, of themselves, and I believe there were about thirty stalks of rice, and about twenty of barley; and now I thought it a proper time to sow it, after the rains, the sun being in its southern position, going from me.
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