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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were informed on arriving there, by means of a few English words, aided by expressive gestures, that the British Consul lived at Concepcion, an hour's ride distant.
-- In the library of your British Museum, Glenarvan, there are two charts, the date of which is 1550, which mention a country south of Asia, called by the Portuguese Great Java.
-- "I should suppose so, sir; for hostile tribes would hardly remain anywhere near the districts under the British rule."
-- It was gradually getting dark when the little party entered the wide streets of Seymour, under Paganel's guidance, who seemed always to know what he had never seen; but his instinct led him right, and he walked straight to Campbell's North British Hotel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is remarkable as showing the wide prevalence of this law, that among the natives of the British possessions in India, also in a considerable part of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, the best means of computation yet furnished us by travellers, yield similar results.
-- Had not the Roman Brutus, oh, my British countrymen, condemned his son to death; and had not the Spartan mothers, oh my soon to be victorious friends, driven their flying children on the points of their enemies' swords?
-- 'Bounderby has the advantage in point of weight; and if anything of a British nature is to come off between us, it may be as well to be in training.'
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：
-- 'Ay!That's a mate o' mine out there in British Columbia.
-- 'No!Only some photographs and papers about a place out there in British Columbia.'
-- 'Why should we not just disappear, separately, to British Columbia, and have no scandal?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again.
-- On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the strong cells and the blind alley, while this somebody pretended to do his something: and made a reality of walking out again as soon as he hadn't done it neatly epitomising the administration of most of the public affairs in our right little, tight little, island.
-- And so at home he had established himself in business, and had invented and executed, and worked his way on, until, after a dozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings.
-- But, as they had all been in the British Embassy way in sundry parts of the earth, and as a British Embassy cannot better establish a character with the Circumlocution Office than by treating its compatriots with illimitable contempt (else it would become like the Embassies of other countries), Clennam felt that on the whole they let him off lightly.
-- It had reached this point when Mr Merdle came home from his daily occupation of causing the British name to be more and more respected in all parts of the civilised globe capable of the appreciation of world-wide commercial enterprise and gigantic combinations of skill and capital.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course the British beat, they always do.'
-- 'Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double quick, ' said the British captain.
-- But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connec-tion of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorri-gible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.
-- The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party.
-- A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for danc-ing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his former dignity is sadly abridged.
-- I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
-- But not content with this good deed, the indefatigable house again bestirred itself: Samuel and all his Sons how many, their mother only knows and under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest or-naments.
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