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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VIII THE GEOGRAPHER'S RESOLUTIONMEANTIME the yacht, favored by the currents from the north of Africa, was making rapid progress toward the equator.
-- "Well, my good fellow, both these passes have only one fault; they take us too far out of our route, either north or south."
-- The peaks on the north and east had disappeared from view, and nothing was visible save the fantastic SILHOUETTE of some towering rocks here and there.
-- He began to smile, and said quietly:"It's the north wind."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, for example, this great plain to the north here with the queer hills breaking out of it.
-- 'It was in the north coun-try.
-- He was once a schoolmaster in the north of England.
-- Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.
-- He brought it down by the North Devon line and walked a great dis-tance over the moor so as to get it home without exciting any remarks.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- 'The North and South I know by heart,' as our poet observes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently he came to himself again, for the breath of the north wind as it played upon him gave him new life, and brought him out of the deep swoon into which he had fallen.
-- As when the two winds that blow from Thrace the north and the northwest spring up of a sudden and rouse the fury of the main in a moment the dark waves uprear their heads and scatter their sea-wrack in all directions even thus trou-bled were the hearts of the Achaeans.
-- Thick as the chill snow-flakes shed from the hand of Jove and borne on the keen blasts of the north wind, even so thick did the gleaming helmets, the bossed shields, the strongly plated breastplates, and the ashen spears stream from the ships.
-- As the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too.
-- It was a pleasant little room, with three windows north, west, and south and bookshelves covered with books and scientific publications, and a broad writing-table, and, under the north window, a microscope, glass slips, minute instruments, some cultures, and scattered bottles of reagents.
-- I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury Square, intending to strike north past the Museum and so get into the quiet district.
-- I turned about, no longer aimless, and went circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways, towards the back streets north of the Strand; for I remembered, though not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imagine the scene if you can!We three blue-clad men, with our misshapen black-faced attendant, standing in a wide expanse of sunlit yellow dust under the blazing blue sky, and surrounded by this circle of crouching and gestic-ulating monstrosities, some almost human save in their subtle expression and gestures, some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing but the deni-zens of our wildest dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, separating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon of the Pacific Ocean.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seal Lullaby All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea.
-- He landed close to old Sea Vitch the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacif-ic, who has no manners except when he is asleep as he was then, with his hind flippers half in and half out of the surf.
-- So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South Pacific, swimming as much as three hundred miles in a day and a night.
-- That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old, old seal who was dying, and Kotick caught fish for him and told him all his sorrows.
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