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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when men killed us by the hundred thousand there was a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so ex-press it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.
-- In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
-- Shakespeare t was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North IAmerica, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.
-- * The North American warrior caused the hair to be plucked from his whole body; a small tuft was left on the crown of his head, in order that his enemy might avail him-self of it, in wrenching off the scalp in the event of his fall.
-- said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly; 'When the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at night.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had often spoken to me of the silent town, somewhere up in the north of Holland, where his parents still lived.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
-- The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.
-- The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.
-- They observed, with emotion, all that part to the north of the coast on which the catastrophe had taken place.
-- If the direction has been maintained from the northeast to the southwest, we have traversed the States of North Carolina, of South Carolina, of Georgia, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, itself, in its narrow part, then a part of the Pacific Ocean.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: "Bulk of treasure here."
-- The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it.
-- The arms are easy found, in the sand-hill, N. point of north inlet cape, bearing E. and a quarter N.J.F.
-- Dr. Livesey take the north side, if you please; Jim, the east; Gray, west.
-- On the two short sides of the house, east and west, there were only two loopholes; on the south side where the porch was, two again; and on the north side, five.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean.
-- B. Hobson's letter I no more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea.
-- But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the antipodes.
-- Here is a preserve of sea-cucumber, which a Malay would declare to be unrivalled in the world; here is a cream, of which the milk has been furnished by the cetacea, and the sugar by the great fucus of the North Sea; and, lastly, permit me to offer you some preserve of anemones, which is equal to that of the most delicious fruits."
-- The Pacific Ocean extends from north to south between the two Polar Circles, and from east to west between Asia and America, over an extent of 145 degrees of longitude.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The white races, having the arctic north behind them, the vast abstraction of ice and snow, would fulfil a mystery of ice-destructive knowledge, snow-abstract annihilation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
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