north是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 北， 北方a. 北方的， 北部ad. 向北方， 在北方，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the prom-ontory of Belrive and the village of Copet.
-- He mentioned the beauties of his native country and asked us if those were not sufficient allure-ments to induce us to prolong our journey as far north as Perth, where he resided.
-- We accordingly determined to commence our journey towards the north at the expiration of another month.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton wasstill new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.
-- The more sedate andolder sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack ofthe niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.
-- The rolling foothillcountry of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the riverbottoms.
-- Then the hand of Fate and a hand of poker combined to give him the plantation which he afterwards called Tara,and at the same time moved him out of the Coast into the upland country of north Georgia.
-- He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger'sdescription, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles inland from Savannah to the north and west, andnot many miles south of the Chattahoochee River.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
-- The ves-sel was an English merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of 93Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor.
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- he continent, of which this kingdom is apart, extends Titself, as I have reason to believe, eastward, to that un-known tract of America westward of California; and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred and fifty miles from Lagado; where there is a good port, and much commerce with the great island of Luggnagg, situated to the north-west about 29 degrees north latitude, and 140 longitude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring.
-- 'Don't go to the North Pole, ma'am!'
-- As neither of the three could be his companion without almost identifying him under any disguise, he prepared a letter to a correspondent whom he could trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the most speedily and privately dispatched.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is about the proportion found in most southern languages, the idioms of the north being much more rich in consonants.
-- On the other hand is the large bay of Faxa, bordered on the north by the enormous glacier of Sneffels, and in which bay the Valkyrie was then the only vessel at anchor.
-- We are now on the summit of the great, the transcendent Sneffels, and here are its two peaks, north and south.
-- Climates did not as yet exist, and a level heat pervaded the whole surface of the globe--the same heat existing at the North Pole as at the equator.
-- Yes, they were truly gigantic animals, a whole herd of mastodons, not fossils, but living, and exactly like those discovered in 1801, on the marshy banks of the great Ohio, in North America.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the Midlands and the industri-al North gulf impassable, across which no communication could take place.
-- As she came out of the wood on the north side, the keep-er's cottage, a rather dark, brown stone cottage, with gables and a handsome chimney, looked uninhabited, it was so silent and alone.
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