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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passionate, beautiful days!Die goldene Zeit!His first classes in America, at Queen City College, had been awed by the sensational discoveries in bacteriology; they had crowded about him reverently; they had longed to know.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Walking outside the city gates one day, he positive-ly fancied that they had fixed a meeting there, that he was waiting for Svidriga脙炉lov.
-- He's bowing down to all the world and kissing the great city of St. Petersburg and its pavement,' added a workman who was a little drunk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My address,' said Mr. Micawber, 'is Windsor Terrace, City Road.
-- 'Under the impression,' said Mr. Micawber, 'that yourperegrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive,and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcanaof the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road- in short,'said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, 'that you mightlose yourself- I shall be happy to call this evening, and instal you inthe knowledge of the nearest way.'
-- I carried them, one afteranother, to a bookstall in the City Road- one part of which, nearour house, was almost all bookstalls and birdshops then- and soldthem for whatever they would bring.
-- But in the course of the evening I had rambled down to the door,and a little way along the street, that I might have another peep atthe old houses, and the grey cathedral; and might think of mycoming through that old city on my journey, and of my passing thevery house I lived in, without knowing it.
-- Beforewe had taken many paces down the street beyond it, the noise ofthe city seemed to melt, as if by magic, into a softened distance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
-- Liddy was asking questions about the city of Bath, and her companion was answering them listlessly and unconcernedly.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are women who will fall in love with a man because another woman has chosen him; like the city madams, poor things, who copy our millinery, and hope thereby to acquire our manners.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, re-finement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
-- 'A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apart-ment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Con-stantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
-- As we entered this city our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before.
-- This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of Parliament and liberty.
-- The memory of that unfortu-nate king and his companions, the amiable Falkland, the insolent Goring, his queen, and son, gave a peculiar inter-est to every part of the city which they might be supposed to have inhabited.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Scarlett was wrong, for, years before, Ellen Robillard of Savannah had giggled as inexplicably as any fifteen-year-old in that charming coastal city and whispered the long nights through with friends, exchanging confidences,telling all secrets but one.
-- She had put Savannah and its memories behind her when she leftthat gently mannered city by the sea, and, from the moment of her arrival in the County, north Georgia was her home.
-- From the old city of Augusta, a second railroad wasextended westward across the state to connect with the new road to Tennessee.
-- From the old city of Savannah, a thirdrailroad was built first to Macon, in the heart of Georgia, and then north through Gerald's own county to Atlanta, tolink up with the other two roads and give Savannah's harbor a highway to the West.
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The great city was almost new to her, she told me, for she had never left Miss Havisham's neighborhood until she had gone to France, and she had merely passed through London then in going and returning.
-- Every morning, with an air ever new, Herbert went into the City to look about him.
-- First, over yonder;" he appeared to mean up the chimney, but I believe he intended to refer me to Liverpool; "and then in the City of London here.
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