coast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 海岸， 海滨，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：
-- It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly.
-- As the day declined into the afternoon, and the air, which had been at intervals clear enough to allow the French coast to be seen, became again charged with mist and vapour, Mr. Lorry's thoughts seemed to cloud too.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully.
-- From time to time the coast was visible through the broken mist, but no vessel was in sight.
-- But on this day they sighted the Irish coast and Fastnet Light.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He waddled back to his room, dressed himself in surah silk last worn on the East Coast of Africa, and returned bringing a sun-helmet which secretly he had bought for Martin.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why does he make it any business of his, to wonder at what I do? at my taking my family to one part of the coast or another? I may be allowed, I hope, the use of my judgment as well as Mr. Perry. I want his directions no more than his drugs.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found that the wind was northeast and must have driven me far from the coast from which I had embarked.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of Frenchdescent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father.
-- Then the hand of Fate and a hand of poker combined to give him the plantation which he afterwards called Tara,and at the same time moved him out of the Coast into the upland country of north Georgia.
-- While the society of up-country Georgia was notso impregnable as that of the Coast aristocrats, no family wanted a daughter to wed a man about whose grandfathernothing was known.
-- The people of the Coast which she had left might pride themselves on taking alltheir affairs, even their duels and their feuds, with a careless air but these north Georgia people had a streak of violencein them.
-- Sheinstinctively knew how Coast people would act in any circumstance.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the robbers had left, with as much eager-ness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- hree days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to Tthe north- east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
-- I had now been two years in this country; and about the beginning of the third, Glumdalclitch and I attended the king and queen, in a progress to the south coast of the king-dom.
-- I therefore told the officer, 'that having been shipwrecked on the coast of Balnibarbi, and cast on a rock, I was received up into La-puta, or the flying island (of which he had often heard), and was now endeavouring to get to Japan, whence I might find a convenience of returning to my own country.'
-- 'Add to this, the pleasure of seeing the various revolu-tions of states and empires; the changes in the lower and 265upper world; ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and over-whelming another; the discovery of many countries yet unknown; barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.
-- On the 10th of April, 1710, we arrived safe at Amsterdam, having lost only three men by sickness in the voyage, and a fourth, who fell from the foremast into the sea, not far from the coast of Guin-ea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Follow my finger to the western coast of Iceland, there you see Reykjavik, its capital.
-- The Sund, or Sound as we call it, could be discovered beyond the point of Elsinore, crowded with white sails, which, at that distance looked like the wings of seagulls; while to the east could be made out the far-off coast of Sweden.
-- An hour later, the capital of Denmark seemed to sink into the waves, and we were at no great distance from the coast of Elsinore.
-- Two days later we were not far from the coast of Scotland, somewhere near what Danish sailors call Peterhead, and then the Valkyrie stretched out direct for the Faroe Islands, between Orkney and Shetland.
-- Coast still dimly visible about thirty leagues to leeward.
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