eastward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. &ad. 向东的， 向东，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：
-- The march eastward was forthwith resumed.
-- The little procession now crossed the railway some two hundred yards below the bridge, and then resumed their eastward course.
-- But eastward nothing but the rocky barrier of peaks and ridges that formed the Wahiti ranges, the great chain whose unbroken links stretch from the East Cape to Cook's Straits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who could sit upon anything in Fleet-street dur-ing the busy hours of the day, and not be dazed and deafened by two immense processions, one ever tending westward with the sun, the other ever tending eastward from the sun, both ever tending to the plains beyond the range of red and purple where the sun goes down!
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears; and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards the beach as I judged, and lay down in the shelter of a canebrake.
-- The eastward sea was a fea-tureless grey, dark and mysterious; and between the sea and the shadow the grey sands (of volcanic glass and crystals) flashed and shone like a beach of diamonds.
-- The sky to the eastward was rimmed with red.
-- He was dead; and even as he died a line of white heat, the limb of the sun, rose eastward beyond the projection of the bay, splashing its radiance across the sky and turning the dark sea into a weltering tumult of dazzling light.
-- I went back to the beach, and turning eastward past the burn-ing enclosure, made for a point where a shallow spit of coral sand ran out towards the reef.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting-point, extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha.
-- Thence the trains eastward run frequently to Chicago and New York.
-- In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees in this direction.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.
-- Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I awoke without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness, the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five, the candles were wasted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind was full west, and by six in the evening I com-puted I had gone eastward at least eighteen leagues; when I spied a very small island about half a league off, which I soon reached.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she gently opened the window, and looked eastward down the prison yard, the spikes upon the wall were tipped with red, then made a sullen purple pattern on the sun as it came flaming up into the heavens.
-- In Mr Merdle's heap of offices in the City, when Mr Dorrit appeared at any of them on his business taking him Eastward (which it frequently did, for it throve amazingly), the name of Dorrit was always a passport to the great presence of Merdle.
-- After that, what with dozing and what with castle-building, he lost himself for a long time, so that there was a touch of morning on the eastward rim of the desolate Campagna when he crept to bed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
-- "Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town-Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket, was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days' sail eastward from the eaves of this good Golden Inn.
-- Meantime, of the broken keel of Ahab's wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This eastward flight from all things customary and attached seemed as if it might have happiness in store.
-- Now he left before she did, which was a remarkable thing, and tramped eastward to Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue, where he took the car.
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