African是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 非洲的 n. 非洲人，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：
-- You will be some relation of the famous African traveler of that name.
-- It was the rainy season, "le tempo das aguas," as the Spanish call it, a trying season to travelers, but useful to the inhabitants of the African Islands, who lack trees and consequently water.
-- The children of these heterogeneous households are very disagreeable compounds of Saxon stiffness and African blackness.
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：
-- Sir Charles, as is well known, made large sums of money in South African speculation.
-- The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Nautilus then approached the African shore, where the depth of the sea was greater.
-- lat., this current divides into two arms, the principal one going towards the coast of Ireland and Norway, whilst the second bends to the south about the height of the Azores; then, touching the African shore, and describing a lengthened oval, returns to the Antilles.
-- But then the Nautilus swerved again, and sought the lowest depth of a submarine valley which is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- of Edinburgh; he had served in the African bush; he had had black-water fever and cholera and most other reasonable afflictions; and he had come to St. Hubert only to recover his red blood corpuscles and to disturb the unhappy Inchcape Jones.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seated, like an African chief, on one of these pieces of matting, the dwarf was regaling himself in the parlour, with bread and cheese and beer, when he observed without appearing to do so, that a boy was prying in at the outer door.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Driving off, with Mammy beside him, each was a perfect picture of pouting African disapproval.
-- With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, andthey took shameless advantage of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the moment of my arrival, he had just finished putting somebody's hat into black long-clothes, like an African baby; so he held out his hand for mine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Travelers who bury themselves in the wilds and depths of the African desert, who seek profit and pleasure in the forests of the New World, are compelled to take it in turn to watch during the hours of sleep; but in this region of the earth absolute solitude and complete security reigned supreme.
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：
-- On the far side of his supreme prostitution to the bitch-goddess he seemed pure, pure as an African ivory mask that dreams impurity into purity, in its ivory curves and planes.
-- But it sounded really more like a Central African jungle than an English village.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego, opposing his filed teeth to the Indian's: crosswise to them, Daggoo seated on the floor, for a bench would have brought his hearse-plumed head to the low carlines; at every motion of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship.
-- As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.
-- Extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the northward upon our own coast, with design to stretch over for the African coast when we came about ten or twelve degrees of northern latitude, which, it seems, was the man-ner of course in those days.
-- I remembered the lump of beeswax with which I made can-dles in my African adventure; but I had none of that now; the only remedy I had was, that when I had killed a goat I saved the tallow, and with a little dish made of clay, which I baked in the sun, to which I added a wick of some oakum, I made me a lamp; and this gave me light, though not a clear, steady light, like a candle.
-- I looked upon my present condition as the most miserable that could possibly be; that I was not able to throw myself into anything but death, that could be called worse; and if I reached the shore of the main I might perhaps meet with relief, or I might coast along, as I did on the African shore, till I came to some inhabited country, and where I might find some relief; and after all, perhaps I might fall in with some Christian ship that might take me in: and if the worst came to the worst, I could but die, which would put an end to all these miseries at once.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at that shirt every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ'n done with blood!
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