English是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 英语 a. 英国人的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that's only from the rational point of view you can't help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.
-- A 708 Crime and Punishmentfine, sumptuous country cottage in the English taste over-grown with fragrant flowers, with flower beds going round the house; the porch, wreathed in climbers, was surrounded with beds of roses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DAVID COPPERFIELDCharles Dickens 2Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) - The most popular and perhapsgreatest English novelist and short-story writer, he drew on hisexperiences as a poor child to produce extremely realistic stories.
-- David Copperfield (1850) - This autobiographical novel is one ofthe most beloved books in all of English literature.
-- 'Then there's the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fishermen;and the beach; and Am to play with-' Peggotty meant her nephewHam, mentioned in my first chapter; but she spoke of him as amorsel of English Grammar.
-- When the wine came, too, I thought it flat; and it 270certainly had more English crumbs in it, than were to be expectedin a foreign wine in anything like a pure state; but I was bashfulenough to drink it, and say nothing.
-- At about this time, too, I madethree discoveries: first, that Mrs. Crupp was a martyr to a curiousdisorder called 'the spazzums,' which was generally accompaniedwith inflammation of the nose, and required to be constantlytreated with peppermint; secondly, that something peculiar in thetemperature of my pantry, made the brandy-bottles burst; thirdly,that I was alone in the world, and much given to record thatcircumstance in fragments of English versification.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- succeeded in the true English style, burying under a calmness that seemed all but indifference, the real attachment which would have led ei-ther of them, if requisite, to do every thing for the good of the other.
-- He may be very 'aimable,' have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.'
-- Eng-lish verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.
-- To amuse her, and be agree-able in her eyes, seemed all that he cared for and Emma, glad to be enlivened, not sorry to be flattered, was gay and easy too, and gave him all the friendly encouragement, the admission to be gallant, which she had ever given in the first and most animating period of their acquaintance; but which now, in her own estimation, meant nothing, though in the judgment of most people looking on it must have had such an appearance as no English word but flirtation could very well describe.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far from the Madding CrowdPREFACEIn reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
-- Liddy, the maltster's great-granddaughter, was about Bathsheba's equal in age, and her face was a prominent advertisement of the light-hearted English country girl.
-- The dog George looked up at the same time after the shepherd's menace, and though he understood English but imperfectly, began to growl.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Affairs!I am to dine with the English Ambassador."
-- "When, instead of dining with the English Ambassador," she wrote, "you go to the Rochefides, you owe me an explanation, which I am waiting to hear."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
-- I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philoso-pher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pre-tence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.
-- At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
-- We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
-- 'I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be, but it is the custom of the Irish to hate vil-lains.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were long squirrelguns that had been new when first the Alleghenies were crossed, old muzzle-loaders that had claimed many an Indianwhen Georgia was new, horse pistols that had seen service in 1812, in the Seminole wars and in Mexico, silver-mounted dueling pistols, pocket derringers, double-barreled hunting pieces and handsome new rifles of English makewith shining stocks of fine wood.
-- There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth ahundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so strongly about the deathof an English absentee landlord's rent agent, it was time for Gerald O'Hara to be leaving and leaving suddenly.
-- For years, the O'Haras had been in badodor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not thefirst O'Hara to take his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning.
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