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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, I went out to Walworth again, and yet again, and yet again, and I saw him by appointment in the City several times, but never held any communication with him on the subject in or near Little Britain.
-- Difficult as it is in a large city to avoid the suspicion of being watched, when the mind is conscious of danger in that regard, I could not persuade myself that any of the people within sight cared about my movements.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the ass, 'I am going to the great city to turn musician: suppose you go with me, and try what you can do in the same way?'
-- They could not, however, reach the great city the first day; so when night came on, they went into a wood to sleep.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning at sun-rise we continued our march, and arrived within two hundred yards of the city gates about noon.
-- I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.
-- The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long.
-- The emperor's palace is in the centre of the city where the two great streets meet.
-- The people having 49received notice a second time, I went again through the city to the palace with my two stools in my hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, Mrs. Sparsit, who had improved the interval by touching up her cap, took her classical features down-stairs again, and entered the board-room in the manner of a Roman matron going outside the city walls to treat with an invading general.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one thing struck his fancy, and that was a certain singular steeple situated on the Island of Amak, which is the southeast quarter of the city of Copenhagen.
-- Some two hours or more after we had left the city of Reykjavik, we reached the little town called Aoalkirkja, or the principal church.
-- Alas, considering how the tempest had driven us in an easterly direction, we had passed under the whole of Germany, under the city of Hamburg where I had been so happy, under the very street which contained all I loved and cared for in the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- City there; terrace gardens blushing with the bella donna.
-- In every thoroughfare, up almost every alley, and down almost every turning, some doleful bell was throbbing, jerking, tolling, as if the Plague were in the city and the dead-carts were going round.
-- Family AffairsAs the city clocks struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs Clennam was wheeled by Jeremiah Flintwinch of the cut-down aspect to her tall cabinet.
-- Since she had begun to work beyond the walls, she had found it necessary to conceal where she lived, and to come and go as secretly as she could, between the free city and the iron gates, outside of which she had never slept in her life.
-- He had but glanced away at the piles of city roofs and chimneys among which the smoke was rolling heavily, and at the wilderness of masts on the river, and the wilderness of steeples on the shore, indistinctly mixed together in the stormy haze, when she was again as quiet as if she had been plying her needle in his mother's room.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could col-lect to make a Celestial City.'
-- And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hun-gry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
-- cried Laurie, throwing up his hat and catching it again, to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens, and half a dozen Irish children, for they were out of the city now.
-- There probably were a good many happy little girls in and about the city that day, but it is my private opin-ion that Amy was the happiest of all, when she sat in her mother's lap and told her trials, receiving consolation and compensation in the shape of approving smiles and fond caresses.
-- Fred, as the eldest twin, will have the estate, I suppose, and such a splendid one it is!A city house in a fashionable street, not so showy as our big houses, but twice as comfortable and full of solid luxury, such as English people believe in.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs commerce surrounds it with her surf.
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