general是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 一般的， 普通的； 总的， 大体的n. 将军，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：
-- To the absolute stupefaction of the geographer, however, the first mouthful was greeted with a general grimace, and such exclamations as—"Tough!"
-- They were fine specimens of the native races, which had been almost entirely swept away in 1833 by General Rosas, tall in stature, with arched forehead and olive complexion.
-- Why Glenarvan proposed this was, that the banks of the Guamini seemed to be the general rendezvous of all the game in the surrounding plains.
-- Not to find an Indian where in general there were only too many, was so unusual that there must be some grave cause for it; but worse still if Harry Grant were a prisoner in the hands of any of those tribes, had he been dragged away with them to the north or south?
-- Paganel's admission was received with a general laugh, which did not in the least disconcert him.
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：
-- Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peer-ing benevolence.
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
-- 'You look like a general who is planning a battle with his chief of the staff.'
-- From his knowl-edge of our rooms and of my appearance, as well as from his general conduct, I am inclined to think that Stapleton's career of crime has been by no means limited to this sin-gle Baskerville affair.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wrote to Mrs. General Epanchin at the time (she is a distant relative of mine), but she did not answer my letter.
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- She is connected with one Totski, Afanasy Ivanovitch, a man of considerable property, a director of companies, and so on, and a great friend of General Epanchin, who is interested in the same matters as he is.'
-- Besides this large residence five-sixths of which was let in flats and lodgings-the general was own-er of another enormous house in the Sadovaya bringing in even more rent than the first.
-- General Epanchin, as ev-eryone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a wellto-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came within the meaning of a still newer term, which had sprung into general use among Americans in 1880, and which concisely expressed the thought of one whose dress or manners are calculated to elicit the admiration of susceptible young women--a "masher."
-- It was a portion of the stock room which gave no idea of the general character of the place, and Carrie could form no opinion of the nature of the work.
-- He knew by name, and could greet personally with a "Well, old fellow," hundreds of actors, merchants, politicians, and the general run of successful characters about town, and it was part of his success to do so.
-- He talked in the same general way as if they were out in the street.
-- Their clothes were faded and loose-hanging, their jackets old, their general make-up shabby.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed every- thing and every-body he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he pol-ished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.
-- We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and noth- ing ever happened to us at all that night, nor the next, nor the next.
-- We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a general good time.
-- Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the general tune.
-- Well, then they sailed in on the general investiga- tion, and there we had it, up and down, hour in, hour out, and nobody never said a word about supper, nor ever seemed to think about it and so they kept it up, and kept it up; and it WAS the worst mixed-up thing you ever see.
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