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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henceforth, however, I must be your host in middle Argos, and you mine in Lycia, if I should ever go there; let us avoid one another's spears even during a general engagement; there are many noble Trojans and al-lies whom I can kill, if I overtake them and heaven delivers them into my hand; so again with yourself, there are many Achaeans whose lives you may take if you can; we two, then, will exchange armour, that all present may know of the old ties that subsist between us.'
-- Hector and the other councillors are now holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was Fearenside telling about it all over again for the second time; there was Mrs. Hall saying his dog didn't have no business to bite her guests; there was Huxter, the general dealer from over the road, interrogative; and Sandy Wadgers from the forge, judicial; besides women and children, all of them saying fatuities: "Wouldn't let en bite me, I knows"; "'Tasn't right have such dargs"; "Whad 'e bite 'n for, than?"
-- Cuss, the general practitioner, was devoured by curiosity.
-- Look at 'em!And a good country for boots, too, in a general way.
-- "A general impression first, Cuss, and then, you know, we can go looking for clues."
-- And I had hardly worked and thought about the matter six months before light came through one of the meshes suddenly blindingly!I found a general principle of pigments and refraction a formula, a geometrical expression involving four dimensions.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious pro-hibitions.
-- And here perhaps I may give a few general facts about the island and the Beast People.
-- Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet so relative is our idea of grace my eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell in with their persuasion that my own long thighs were ungainly.
-- Beyond these general characters their heads had little in common; each preserved the quality of its particular species: the human mark distorted but did not hide the leopard, the ox, or the sow, or other animal or animals, from which the creature had been moulded.
-- Montgomery and Moreau were too peculiar and individual to keep my general impressions of humanity well defined.
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.
-- At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
-- A general movement among their conductors, however, soon recalled them from a contem-plation of the wild charms that night had assisted to lend the place to a painful sense of their real peril.
-- 'Oneida castle' is no more than a scattered hamlet; but the name is in general use.
-- The Hurons had awaited the result of this short dia-logue with characteristic patience, and with a silence that increased until there was a general stillness in the band.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such is the general purport of this legendary supersti-tion, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
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：
-- The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
-- But there was no general conversation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- The curious circumstances which led to the escape of the prisoners were as follows: That same year, in the month of February, 1865, in one of the coups de main by which General Grant attempted, though in vain, to possess himself of Richmond, several of his officers fell into the power of the enemy and were detained in the town.
-- After having begun as a volunteer at Illinois, under Ulysses Grant, he fought at Paducah, Belmont, Pittsburg Landing, at the siege of Corinth, Port Gibson, Black River, Chattanooga, the Wilderness, on the Potomac, everywhere and valiantly, a soldier worthy of the general who said, "I never count my dead!"
-- The Governor of Richmond for a long time had been unable to communicate with General Lee, and he very much wished to make known to him the situation of the town, so as to hasten the march of the army to their relief.
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