city是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 城市； 都市； 市，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already it had not been light all day and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
-- It is also a fact, that Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man 14 Sons and Loversin the city of London, even including which is a bold word the corporation, aldermen, and livery.
-- The city had entirely vanished.
-- Although they had but that moment left the school be-hind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
-- So did the room, 54 Sons and Loversthe fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beat-ing heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is re-ferable to this.
-- In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personal-ity, to me, or than I am to them?
-- Under the over-swinging lamps swinging ever brighter in the better streets, and ever dimmer in the worse and by lighted shops, gay crowds, illuminated coffee-houses, and theatre-doors, to one of the city gates.
-- In 126 A tale of two citiesthe fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ig-norant, their neighbors might prove to be.
-- The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense.
-- The whole city was illuminated in the evening, and the cannons went off with a bum!bum!and the soldiers pre-sented arms.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I know," he thought, "that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it.
-- The count had driven off on the lower city road."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The celebrated East India Company was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gained a foothold on the spot where now stands the city of Madras, down to the time of the great Sepoy insurrection.
-- As for the wonders of Bombay its famous city hall, its splendid library, its forts and docks, its bazaars, mosques, synagogues, its Armenian churches, and the noble pagoda on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers he cared not a straw to see them.
-- Passepartout started off forthwith, and found himself in the streets of Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula.
-- The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER,AND WHAT COMES OF ITHong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English by the Treaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it an important city and an excellent port.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wants to go city for operation.
-- Zenith, the largest city in the state, was founded in 1792.
-- Actually they were extremely small debauches; they rarely went beyond too much lager in the adjacent city of Zenith, or the smiles of a factory girl parading the sordid back avenues, but to Martin, with his pride in taut strength, his joy in a clear brain, they afterward seemed tragic.
-- They say, 'Oh, sure, science is all right in its way; helps a doc to treat his patients,' and then they begin to argue about whether they can make more money if they locate in a big city or a town, and is it better for a young doc to play the good-fellow and lodge game, or join the church and look earnest.
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