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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war,because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton.
-- Let the English mill workersstarve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared to me that it would take time to become uncommon, under these circumstances: nevertheless, I resolved to try it, and that very evening Biddy entered on our special agreement, by imparting some information from her little catalogue of Prices, under the head of moist sugar, and lending me, to copy at home, a large old English D which she had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle.
-- I believe he had been knighted himself for storming the English grammar at the point of the pen, in a desperate address engrossed on vellum, on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of some building or other, and for handing some Royal Personage either the trowel or the mortar.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was in part due to Ed-gar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories 'with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ship slackened her sails, and I came up with her between five and six in the evening, September 26th; but my heart leaped within me to see her English co-lours.
-- The ves-sel was an English merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of 93Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor.
-- This made me reflect upon the fair skins of our English ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their defects not to be seen but through a magnifying glass; where we find by experiment that the smoothest and whitest skins look rough, and coarse, and ill-coloured.
-- The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin.
-- The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was accus-tomed to them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's all the same to me what he is or what he is not, whether in English or whether in French,' retorted Mr. E. W. B. Childers, facing about.
-- CHAPTER X. STEPHEN BLACKPOOLI entertain a weak idea that the English people are as hard-worked as any people upon whom the sun shines.
-- Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
-- There's an English family with a charming Italian motto.
-- Mr. Bounderby's fine bluff English independence, though a most charming characteristic, does not as we have agreed invite confidence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- Now, Harry, to show your English wit--what is that figure?"
-- Generally there were one or two English or French gunboats, to watch and protect the fisheries in the offing.
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
-- Which being translated from Icelandic into plain English means--"After."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a grudge and a grievance: that was obvious to any true-born English gentleman, who would scorn to let such a thing appear blatant in his own demeanour.
-- He pined to be where he didn't belong...among the English upper classes.
-- You'll see he'll be an English Man of Let-ters before he's done.
-- he asked, with his suavest English stiffness, for the two things often go together.
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