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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sons of Atreus,' he cried, 'and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apol-lo, son of Jove.'
-- Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold.'
-- Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.
-- We went to Thebe the strong city of Eetion, sacked it, and brought hither the spoil.
-- He thought that on that same day he was to take the city of Priam, but he little knew what was in the mind of Jove, who had many another hard-fought fight in store alike for Danaans and Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would see one of the clumsy bovine-creatures who worked the launch treading heavily through the undergrowth, and find myself asking, trying hard to recall, how he differed from some really human yo-kel trudging home from his mechanical labours; or I would meet the Fox-bear woman's vulpine, shifty face, strangely human in its speculative cunning, and even imagine I had met it before in some city byway.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli had never seen an Indian city before, and though this was almost a heap of ruins it seemed very won-derful and splendid.
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
-- Then all would begin again till they grew tired of the city and went back to the tree-tops, hoping the Jungle-People would notice them.
-- Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers' Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place in-deed.
-- No sooner had he walked to the city wall than the mon-keys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The sinews and bones of a man carry me through it all,' said the hunter, surveying his muscular limbs with a sim-plicity that betrayed the honest pleasure the compliment afforded him; 'there are larger and heavier men to be found in the settlements, but you might travel many days in a city before you could meet one able to walk fifty miles without stopping to take breath, or who has kept the hounds with-in hearing during a chase of hours.
-- He was permitted to pass the grenadier, who watched over the slumbers of the French commander, without interruption, the man making the usual salute which betokens military deference, as the other passed swiftly through the little city of tents, in the direction of William Henry.
-- The blood-stained conquerors had departed; and their camp, which had so lately rung with the merry rejoicings of a victorious army, lay a silent and deserted city of huts.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine ribbon, or per-haps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovation.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They wished to be taken for men of the world, and could have passed anywhere for the managing clerks of a city firm.
-- "I tell you I know nothing," she said, in reply to my agitated questions, and then, with an airy shrug of the shoulders: "I believe that a young person in a city tea-shop has left her situation."
-- "芒聭赂芒聭赂 This picture, formerly in the possession of a wealthy manufacturer at Lille, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm.
-- It was obvious that to him Blanche Stroeve was only a unit to be added to the statistical list of attempted suicides in the city of Paris during the current year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her dwarfish spouse still smoked his cigar and drank his rum without heeding her; and it was not until the sun had some time risen, and the activity and noise of city day were rife in the street, that he deigned to recognize her presence by any word or sign.
-- This Brass was an attorney of no very good repute, from Bevis Marks in the city of London; he was a tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen, a protruding forehead, retreating eyes, and hair of a deep red.
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
-- Bless us, what a number of gentlemen on horseback there were riding up and down, and how few of them wanted their horses held!A good city speculator or a parliamentary commissioner could have told to a fraction, from the crowds that were cantering about, what sum of money was realised in London, in the course of a year, by holding horses alone.
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