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：
-- The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote pe-riod of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, 'tarried,' in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
-- The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefore], been the scene of marauding and infested with refugees, cow-boys, and all kinds of border chivalry.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was married to an American woman, obese and slatternly, fallen to this pass by Heaven knows what process of degradation, and every day the boarders took it in turns to help her with the housework.
-- A motley crowd saunters along the streets Lascars off a P. and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp.
-- After Strickland's death certain of his effects were sold by auction in the market-place at Papeete, and she went to it herself because there was among the truck an American stove she wanted.
-- He smiled maliciously at Tiare, and with lamentations she told us again the story of how at the sale of Strickland's effects she had neglected the pictures, but bought an American stove for twenty-seven francs.
-- "Mr. Van Busche Taylor is the distinguished American critic.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gideon Spilett was one of that race of indomitable English or American chroniclers, like Stanley and others, who stop at nothing to obtain exact information, and transmit it to their journal in the shortest possible time.
-- Pencroft was an American from the North, who had sailed all the ocean over, and who had gone through every possible and almost impossible adventure that a being with two feet and no wings would encounter.
-- Herbert was going to propose to give it the engineer's name and all his companions would have applauded him, when Cyrus Harding said simply, "Let us give it the name of a great citizen, my friend; of him who now struggles to defend the unity of the American Republic!Let us call it Lincoln Island!"
-- They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.
-- Numerous aquatic birds frequented the shores of this little Ontario, in which the thousand isles of its American namesake were represented by a rock which emerged from its surface, some hundred feet from the southern shore.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- TREASURE ISLAND茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙To S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, the author.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had read and reread all the American and European papers without being any nearer a conclusion.
-- I aspired to nothing more than again seeing my country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, my dear and precious collections but nothing could keep me back!I forgot all fatigue, friends and collections and accepted without hesitation the offer of the American Government.
-- This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles.
-- The 30th of June, the frigate spoke some American whalers, from whom we learned that they knew nothing about the narwhal.
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "An old American edition," said Birkin.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oho!I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway."
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