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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He founded the city of St. Philip, but the extreme severity of winter decimated the inhabitants, and those who had struggled through the cold died subsequently of starvation.
-- Concepcion, the ancient city of brave men, had become a village of women and children.
-- "No, at ten minutes past seven," replied the geographer, gravely, "that Batman and Falckner first began a settlement at Port Phillip, the bay on which the large city of Melbourne now stands.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have ample evidence that you are being dogged in London, and amid the millions of this great city it is dif-ficult to discover who these people are or what their object can be.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Part I I owards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine To'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Peters- burg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.
-- I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
-- Nelaton, the Tuileries surgeon, demanded a safe conduct, in the name of science, into the besieged city in order to attend my wounds.
-- No, indeed, two, three!Ornaments of this city and of society: beauty, education, culture the woman question poetry everything!Added to which is the fact that each one will have a dot of at least eighty thou-sand roubles.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.
-- Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.
-- By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz.
-- Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop (like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards; it is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest, saddest city thou can'st see.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER I - START IN LIFEI WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a for-eigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every thing in her household arrangements was conducted on the most liberal plan, and excepting a few old city friends, whom, to Lady Middleton's regret, she had never dropped, she visited no one to whom an introduction could at all discompose the feelings of her young companions.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago.
-- The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.
-- A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject--the proper penitent, grovelling at a woman's slipper.
-- To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untravelled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing.
-- Her companion, affected by her wonder, so contagious are all things, felt anew some interest in the city and pointed out its marvels.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To the City of Simple Simons."
-- "You must know that, just outside the City of Simple Simons, there is a blessed field called the Field of Wonders.
-- They walked and walked for a half a day at least and at last they came to the town called the City of Simple Simons.
-- They passed through the city and, just outside the walls, they stepped into a lonely field, which looked more or less like any other field.
-- "While you were away in the city the Fox and the Cat returned here in a great hurry.
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