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：
-- Without the least hesitation I determined to appropriate the DUNCAN, a matchless vessel, able to outdistance the swiftest ships in the British Navy.
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：
-- 'I don't know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada.
-- His passion is for the British law, and he has spent a large fortune in litigation.
-- I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.
-- He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity be-fore the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all; or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
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：
-- * Washington, who, after uselessly admonishing the Eu-ropean general of the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the remnants of the British army, on this oc-casion, by his decision and courage.
-- The loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fast-nesses the name of William Henry, and to the other that of Fort Edward, calling each after a favorite prince of the reigning family.
-- Montcalm had filled the woods of the portage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment, chilling the hearts of men who were already but too much disposed to magnify the danger.
-- 'Il est necessaire d'etre vigilant, mon enfant,' the oth-er observed, dropping a fold of his cloak, and looking the soldier close in the face as he passed him, still continuing his way toward the British fortification.
-- While his companions were mounting, how-ever, he found time to press the hand of the scout, and to repeat the terms of an engagement they had made to meet again within the posts of the British army.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
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：
-- Mrs. Strickland's sister was older than she, not unlike her, but more faded; and she had the efficient air, as though she carried the British Empire in her pocket, which the wives of senior officers acquire from the consciousness of belonging to a superior caste.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.
-- The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen being all that is left faithful of the ship's company with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I saw nothing, not even the Island of Perim, with which the British Government has fortified the position of Aden.
-- Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles?
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