oriental是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. 东方的, 东方人，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：
-- In fact, the Peninsular and Oriental Company has a regular line of packets between these points and England.
-- Paganel's proposal was to take the ship in question, and get to Auckland, whence it would be easy to return to Europe by the boats of the Peninsular and Oriental Company.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had found a girl--he'd show her to Vronsky--a marvel, exquisite, in the strict Oriental style, "genre of the slave Rebecca, don't you know."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCEThe circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.
-- Some Brahmins, clad in all the sumptuousness of Oriental apparel, and leading a woman who faltered at every step, followed.
-- IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIMThe Rangoon one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.
-- This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamers, and those carrying travellers between North America, China, Japan, and the Oriental islands put in.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in its day it was the proudest inn between Chicago and Pittsburgh; an oriental palace, the entrance a score of brick Moorish arches, the lobby towering from a black and white marble floor, up past gilt iron balconies, to the green, pink, pearl, and amber skylight seven stories above.
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：
-- 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.
-- A girl, selected for the task by her rank and qualifications, commenced by modest allusions to the qualities of the de-ceased warrior, embellishing her expressions with those oriental images that the Indians have probably brought with them from the extremes of the other continent, and which form of themselves a link to connect the ancient his-tories of the two worlds.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ay, sure that's the machine," chimed in Henery Fray, reflectively, with an Oriental indifference to the flight of time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the fa脙搂ade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Theold and colorful phrases of the litany with its Oriental imagery meant little to them but it satisfied something in theirhearts, and they always swayed when they chanted the responses: "Lord, have mercy on us," "Christ, have mercy onus."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the grouping formed an oriental town, with innumerable mosques and minarets; there a fallen city thrown to the earth, as it were, by some convulsion of nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having come to the climax, Mr. Bounderby, like an oriental dancer, put his tambourine on his head.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wondered what were those of Hans--the man of the extreme north, who was yet gifted with the fatalistic resignation of Oriental character.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Euroclydon!says old Dives, in his red silken wrapper (he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh!What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights!Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.
-- Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their glittering expression all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
-- Was it not so, O Timor Tom!thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?
-- He was such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.
-- You may think with what emotions, then, the seamen beheld this old Oriental perched aloft at such unusual hours; his turban and the moon, companions in one sky.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw a large, empty, shadowy play-house, still redolent of the perfumes and blazonry of the night, and notable for its rich, oriental appearance.
-- She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.
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