where是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在哪/那里conj. /pron. 哪里conj. 然而，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
-- Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
-- Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?
-- And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones so goes the story to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- He put on his hat, and, pausing by the bed-side on his way to the door, added, 'She was a good-looking girl, too; where did she come from?'
-- She had walked some distance, for her shoes were worn to pieces; but where she came from, or where she was going to, nobody knows.'
-- Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,' or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.
-- With the slice of bread in his hand, and the little brown-cloth parish cap on his head, Oliver was then led away by Mr. Bumble from the wretched home where one kind word or look had never lighted the gloom of his infant years.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they were the principal inhabitants.
-- Sir Wil- liam Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
-- It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Mery- ton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, un- shackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
-- It was at Sir William Lucas's, where a large party were assembled.
-- She was shown into the breakfast-parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
-- I always know what the hour is, and where I am.
-- I was brought in here at night, and out of a boat, but I know where I am.
-- The apartment of the jailer and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case the guillotine locked up.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She didn't say 'perhaps never,' but each silent-ly added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.
-- They all drew to the fire, Mother in the big chair with Beth at her feet, Meg and Amy perched on either arm of the chair, and Jo leaning on the back, where no one would see any sign of emotion if the letter should happen to be touching.
-- Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could col-lect to make a Celestial City.'
-- 'What fun it was, especially going by the lions, fighting Apollyon, and passing through the valley where the hob-goblins were,' said Jo.
-- 'I liked the place where the bundles fell off and tumbled downstairs,' said Meg.
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