western是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 西方的， 西部的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remembered the shameful proceedings he had tried to get up against his brother Sergey Ivanovitch, accusing him of not having paid him his share of his mother's fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble for assaulting a village elder....
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They paused on the bluff, looking down at the muddy Chaloosa, a springtime Western river wild with floating branches.
-- I've always wondered about these Western states."
-- Letters demanded of Gottlieb, "Can you stand by, with the stuff of salvation in your hands, and watch thousands of these unfortunate people dying in St. Hubert, and what is more are you going to let the dreaded plague gain a foothold in the Western hemisphere?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They sat down to tea the same party round the same table how often it had been collected! and how often had her eyes fallen on the same shrubs in the lawn, and ob-served the same beautiful effect of the western sun! But never in such a state of spirits, never in any thing like it; and it was with difficulty that she could summon enough of her usual self to be the attentive lady of the house, or even the attentive daughter.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was still the beaming time of evening, though night was stealthily making itself visible low down upon the ground, the western lines of light raking the earth without alighting upon it to any extent, or illuminating the dead levels at all.
-- Above the dark margin of the earth appeared foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud, bounding a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky.
-- He lingered and lingered on, till there was no difference between the eastern and western expanses of sky, and the timid hares began to limp courageously round the dim hillocks.
-- At the end of half-an-hour a faint dust was seen in the expected quarter, and shortly after a travelling-carriage, bringing one of the two judges on the Western Circuit, came up the hill and halted on the top.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lighted the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were strange faces on the streets of Atlantanow, and citizens who a year ago would have pricked op their ears at the sound of even a Western accent paid no heedto the foreign tongues of Europeans who had run the blockade to build machines and turn out Confederate munitions.
-- The Yankees were massing for anattack on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, the line which connected Atlanta with Tennessee and the West, the sameline over which the Southern troops had been rushed last fall to win the victory at Chickamauga.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the present hour, the weary western streets of London on a cold, dusty spring night, with their ranges of stern, shut-up mansions, and their long rows of lamps, are melancholy to me from this association.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stepped over the great western gate, and passed very gently, and sidling, through the two principal streets, only in my short waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with the skirts of my coat.
-- We landed at a small port-town called Xamoschi, situated on the south-east part of Japan; the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into along arm of the sea, upon the north-west part of which, Yedo, the metropolis, stands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 19 THE WESTERN GALLERY--A NEW ROUTE CHAPTER 20 WATER, WHERE IS IT?
-- "Follow my finger to the western coast of Iceland, there you see Reykjavik, its capital.
-- At seven in the morning we left Korsor, a little town on the western side of Seeland.
-- From that moment the schooner was steered to the westward in order to round Cape Reykjanes, the western point of Iceland.
-- It is quite possible that we may be more fortunate in the western tunnel."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.
-- Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger, large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage.
-- A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-browed and fearless as this mighty steed.
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