council是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 政务会, 理事会, 委员会，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：
-- 510 A tale of two citiesXIV The Knitting Done n that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited Itheir fate Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolution-ary Jury.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, how is your district council doing?"
-- He examined the wrist, said it was not broken, was delighted at a chance of talking to the celebrated Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev, and to show his advanced views of things told him all the scandal of the district, complaining of the poor state into which the district council had fallen.
-- I can understand compulsory military service, which affects my children, my brothers, and myself, I am ready to deliberate on what concerns me; but deliberating on how to spend forty thousand roubles of district council money, or judging the half-witted Alioshka--I don't understand, and I can't do it."
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch goes to the council at seven and will be there till ten."
-- Thus people talked incessantly of Alexey Alexandrovitch, finding fault with him and laughing at him, while he, blocking up the way of the member of the Imperial Council he had captured, was explaining to him point by point his new financial project, never interrupting his discourse for an instant for fear he should escape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The train passed rapidly across the State of Iowa, by Council Bluffs, Des Moines, and Iowa City.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dean lectured: "Arrowsmith, you've been discussed a good deal by the faculty council of late.
-- As head of the medical department of bacteriology, Gottlieb was a member of this all-ruling body, and when he entered the long Council Chamber, with its gilt ceiling, its heavy maroon curtains, its somber paintings of pioneers, he started for his usual seat, unconscious of the knot of whispering members, meditating on far-off absorbing things.
-- President Truscott announced, "Gentlemen, this joint meeting of the Council and the regents is to consider charges against Professor Max Gottlieb preferred by his dean and by myself."
-- Once, when Martin attended a meeting of the Nautilus Central Labor Council as Pickerbaugh's representative, the secretary of the council confessed that there was no plant which they would so like to unionize and which they were so unlikely to unionize as Klopchuk's Dairy.
-- When he had to return to his laboratory three times before he was satisfied that he had closed the window, he sat down, coldly, informed himself that he was on the edge, and took council as to whether he dared go on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert had come in, and we held a very serious council by the fire.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called to-gether.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue; and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his maj-esty in council that I must be conveyed.
-- His speech was to the following effect, for I took notes of it as soon as he left me:- 'You are to know,' said he, 'that several committees of council have been lately called, in the most private manner, on your account; and it is but two days since his majesty came to a full resolution.
-- 'But his imperial majesty, fully determined against cap-ital punishment, was graciously pleased to say, that since the council thought the loss of your eyes too easy a cen-sure, some other way may be inflicted hereafter.
-- He likewise directed, 'that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.'
-- Here I discovered the true causes of many great events that have surprised the world; how a whore can govern the back-stairs, the back-stairs a 251council, and the council a senate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a few dashes in the public meeting way, Mr. Gradgrind and a council of political sages approved of Jem, and it was resolved to send him down to Coketown, to become known there and in the neighbourhood.
-- She watches the place a whole day before this fellow begins, and on the night when you saw him, she steals away with him and holds a council with him I suppose, to make her report on going off duty, and be damned to her.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So it had come to pass successively, first, that several distinguished ladies had been frightfully shocked; then, that portfolios of his performances had been handed about o' nights, and declared with ecstasy to be perfect Claudes, perfect Cuyps, perfect phaenomena; then, that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity, 'Do you know, there appears to me to be really immense merit in that work?'
-- At some period of every day, he and Mrs Clennam held a council on matters of business; and it appeared to Affery, who was always groping about, listening and watching, that the two clever ones were making money.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plan was talked over in a family council and agreed upon, for Mrs. Kirke gladly accepted Jo, and promised to make a pleasant home for her.
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