American是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 美洲的 n. 美国人，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The American way of doing business," said Sviazhsky, with a smile.
-- Fortunately for him, at this period so difficult for him from the failure of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American alliance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritualism, were definitely replaced in public interest by the Slavonic question, which had hitherto rather languidly interested society, and Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been one of the first to raise this subject, threw himself into it heart and soul.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.
-- Oh, these English!If this was an American craft, we should blow up, perhaps, but we should at all events go faster!"
-- "Pilot," said Mr. Fogg, "I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki."
-- Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
-- It was the American steamer, leaving for Yokohama at the appointed time.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at a meeting of the American Academy of Sciences he met one Dr. Entwisle, a youngish physiologist from Harvard, who would make an excellent dean.
-- This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.
-- II He had read in the Journal of the American Medical Association that Gustaf Sondelius was giving a series of lectures at Harvard.
-- It's from the Zenith Advocate-Times, and it's by Chum Frink, who, I think you'll agree with me, ranks with Eddie Guest and Walt Mason as the greatest, as they certainly are the most popular, of all our poets, showing that you can bank every time on the literary taste of the American Public.
-- Mrs. Duer will probably help Angus to become president of the American Medical Association, in about twenty years, and by that time I suppose you'll have me back in Dakota as assistant to Hesselink!"
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：
-- There was nothing in the room except two chairs and a sofa covered with American leather, full of holes, be-fore which stood an old deal kitchen-table, unpainted and uncovered.
-- And when he had sunk down on the American leather sofa, which was in even worse condition than his own, Ra-zumihin saw at once that his visitor was ill. 'Why, you are seriously ill, do you know that?'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And a good notion it is!All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, likeYankees!The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring.
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：
-- That's why I prefer those American shirts, that you put on like a jacket.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A new play will appear at the Barnville Theatre, in the course of a few weeks, which will surpass anything ever seen on the American stage.
-- Meg was grateful to see that Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate, and who was much flattered by Mr. Ned's assurances that he came especially to see her.
-- As the four sisters went home through the garden, Miss Kate looked after them, say-ing, without the patronizing tone in her voice, 'In spite of their demonstrative manners, American girls are very nice when one knows them.'
-- 'Hurrah for Miss March, the celebrated American au-thoress!'
-- Another says, 'It's one of the best American novels which has appeared for years.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
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