British是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不列颠的， 英联邦的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
-- That, the proof would go back five years, and would show the prisoner al-ready engaged in these pernicious missions, within a few weeks before the date of the very first action fought between the British troops and the Americans.
-- It was too much the way of Mon-seigneur under his reverses as a refugee, and it was much too much the way of native British orthodoxy, to talk of this terrible Revolution as if it were the only harvest ever known under the skies that had not been sown as if nothing had ever been done, or omitted to be done, that had led to it as if observers of the wretched millions in France, and of the misused and perverted resources that should have made 337them prosperous, had not seen it inevitably coming, years before, and had not in plain words recorded what they saw.
-- For, what would staid British responsibility and respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter?
-- She also bestowed a British cough on Madame Defarge; but, neither of the two took much heed of her.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the invasion of the English in 1807, an encounter of a no very glorious nature took place between the British troops and the undisciplined 194 Andersen's Fairy TalesDanish militia.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.
-- But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants.
-- A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority; and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was in 1916, before the country had become wholesome and sterile, and the Brevoort was a tumult of French uniforms, caviar, Louis, dangling neckties, Nuits St. Georges, illustrators, Grand Marnier, British Intelligence officers, brokers, conversation, and Martell, V.O.
-- Wickett grinned obscenely--red-headed, rough-faced, wiry--and snorted, "By the way, did Holabird tell you about being wounded in the first month of the war, when he was a field marshal or a hospital orderly or something in the British Army?"
-- III The first of the McGurk Scientific Dinners which Martin and Leora witnessed was a particularly important and explanatory dinner, because the guest of honor was Major-General Sir Isaac Mallard, the London surgeon, who was in America with a British War Mission.
-- But such outsiders as Wickett and such silent riders as Martin and Leora and such totally absent members as Max Gottlieb were few, and the dinner waxed magnificently to a love-feast when Dr. Tubbs and Sir Isaac Mallard paid compliments to each other, to Capitola, to the sacred soil of France, to brave little Belgium, to American hospitality, to British love of privacy, and to the extremely interesting things a young man with a sense of co-operation might do in modern science.
-- He bought, in seventeen minutes, a Palm Beach suit, two new shirts, and, as St. Hubert was a British possession and as he had heard that all Britishers carry canes, a stick which the shop-keeper guaranteed to be as good as genuine malacca.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had agreedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels- I forgetwhat, now- that were on those shelves; and for days and days I canremember to have gone about my region of our house, armed withthe centrepiece out of an old set of boot-trees-the perfect realisationof Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger ofbeing beset by savages, and resolved to sell his life at a great price.
-- Having by this time cried as much as I possibly could, I began tothink it was of no use crying any more, especially as neitherRoderick Random, nor that cap- tain in the Royal British Navy hadever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations.
-- I believe he actually beganto be afraid he really had been doing something, tending to theannihilation of the British constitution, and the ruin of the country.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was, so to speak, that symmetry in their distortion which is less the characteristic of British than of Continental grotesques of the period.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- And naturally the British aristocracysympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which side he was on I couldn't make out, for he seemed to me to be grinding the whole place in a mill; I only know that when I stole out on tiptoe, he was not on the side of the bench; for, he was making the legs of the old gentleman who presided, quite convulsive under the table, by his denunciations of his conduct as the representative of British law and justice in that chair that day.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting col-onies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pas-tors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administra-tion through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.
扩展阅读：