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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The western side was illumined by the rays of the setting sun, and peaks and glaciers flashed back his golden beams with dazzling radiance.
-- The mimosas growing on the western part, and the substantial herbage on the eastern, give those plains a peculiar appearance.
-- It was about nine o'clock; the sun had just sunk behind the glowing mists of the western horizon.
-- No other coast but the western coast of Patagonia could possibly, we thought, have been the scene of the shipwreck.
-- "Thanks to our friend, all that remains to be done now is to get to Australia, and look out for traces of the wreck on the western coast."
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：
-- The de-tection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mer-cury with the Western Morning News.
-- The western win-dow through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house it commands the nearest outlook on the moor.
-- And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs. Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, no; we must resist, and quickly, quickly!We must let out Christ shine forth upon the Western nations, our Christ whom we have preserved intact, and whom they have never known.
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：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western con-tinent of a much later day, certainly, than those gifted bards, who formerly sang the profane renown of baron and prince, but after the spirit of his own age and country; and he was now prepared to exercise the cunning of his craft, in celebration of, or rather in thanksgiving for, the recent vic-tory.
-- While the eyes of the sisters were endeavoring to catch glimpses through the trees, of the flood of golden glory which formed a glittering halo around the sun, tinging here and there with ruby streaks, or bordering with narrow edg-ings of shining yellow, a mass of clouds that lay piled at no great distance above the western hills, Hawkeye turned suddenly and pointing upward toward the gorgeous heav-ens, he spoke: 'Yonder is the signal given to man to seek his food and natural rest,' he said; 'better and wiser would it be, if he could understand the signs of nature, and take a lesson from the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field!Our night, however, will soon be over, for with the moon we must be up and moving again.
-- The moon had already sunk into an immense pile of black clouds, which lay impending above the western horizon, when they is-sued from the low and devious water-course to rise again to the light and level of the sandy but wooded plain.
-- The mountain on which they stood, elevated perhaps a thousand feet in the air, was a high cone that rose a little in advance of that range which stretches for miles along the western shores of the lake, until meeting its sisters miles beyond the water, it ran off toward the Canadas, in con-fused and broken masses of rock, thinly sprinkled with evergreens.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The path, already trodden under the evergreen trees, was found, and at nine o'clock Cyrus Harding and his companions had reached the western border of the forest.
-- Also, if the summit of the mountain could not be reached on one side, and if, on the other, they could not get round the base of the cone, it would be impossible to survey the western part of the country, and their object in making the ascent would in part be altogether unattained.
-- At the narrowest part, that is to say between the Chimneys and the creek on the western shore, which corresponded to it in latitude, the island only measured ten miles; but its greatest length, from the jaws at the northeast to the extremity of the tail of the southwest, was not less than thirty miles.
-- The explorers had arrived on the western shore of Lake Grant.
-- Cyrus Harding proposed that they should return to the western shore of the lake, where the day before he had noticed the clayey ground of which he possessed a specimen.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His three whales are as good whales as were ever published in Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a stump as any you will find in the western clearings.
-- But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who understand such enclosures will think I had very little contrivance when I pitched upon a place very proper for all these (being a plain, open piece of meadow land, or savannah, as our people call it in the western colo-nies), which had two or three little drills of fresh water in it, and at one end was very woody - I say, they will smile at my forecast, when I shall tell them I began by enclosing this piece of ground in such a manner that, my hedge or pale must have been at least two miles about.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was blowing up cold, and out of her window Carrie could see the western sky, still pink with the fading light, but steely blue at the top where it met the darkness.
-- "No," said Carrie, whose feelings were already localised in the great Western city.
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