European是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 欧洲的 n. 欧洲人，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A certain portion of his time was passed at Cambridge, where he read with undergraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European lan-guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom-house.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How was it you used to say you would never wear European dress again?"
-- All I say is, give such rights as our local self-government to any other European people--why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule."
-- Kitty was walking there with her mother and the Moscow colonel, smart and jaunty in his European coat, bought ready-made at Frankfort.
-- The princess thought everything delightful, and in spite of her established position in Russian society, she tried abroad to be like a European fashionable lady, which she was not--for the simple reason that she was a typical Russian gentlewoman; and so she was affected, which did not altogether suit her.
-- The prince, on the contrary, thought everything foreign detestable, got sick of European life, kept to his Russian habits, and purposely tried to show himself abroad less European than he was in reality.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is enough to say, without applying this poetical rhapsody to Aouda, that she was a charming woman, in all the European acceptation of the phrase.
-- What was her astonishment to find herself in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European habiliments, and with travellers who were quite strangers to her!Her companions first set about fully reviving her with a little liquor, and then Sir Francis narrated to her what had passed, dwelling upon the courage with which Phileas Fogg had not hesitated to risk his life to save her, and recounting the happy sequel of the venture, the result of Passepartout's rash idea.
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
-- Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields; sago-bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime; while nutmeg-trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume.
-- He found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts, and being adorned with verandas, beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He read European history aloud at Leora, who looked interested or at least forgiving; he worried the sentences in a copy of "The Golden Bowl" which an unfortunate school-teacher had left at the Tozers'; he borrowed a volume of Conrad from the village editor and afterward, as he drove the prairie roads, he was marching into jungle villages--sun helmets, orchids, lost temples of obscene and dog-faced deities, secret and sun-scarred rivers.
-- Yes, he was opposed to our entering the European War, but he assured them, he certainly did assure them, that he was for using every power of our Government to end this terrible calamity.
-- He is equal opposed to the capitalists who t'ink their silly money- grabbing is a system, and to liberals who t'ink man is not a fighting animal; he takes both the American booster and the European aristocrat, and he ignores all their blithering.
-- II While he puttered his insignificant way through the early years of the Great European War, the McGurk Institute had a lively existence under its placid surface.
-- The European War was the one thing, besides his discharge from Winnemac, which had ever broken his sardonic serenity.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the last two years he had been working in publishers' offices, and knew three European languages well, though he had told Raskolnikov six days before that he was 'schwach' in German with an object of persuading him to take half his translation and half the payment for it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I consulted the most experienced seamen upon the depth of the channel, which they had often plumbed; who told me, that in the middle, at high-water, it was sev- enty glumgluffs deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most.
-- But ad-vancing forward towards my master (as I shall henceforth 106 Gulliver's Travelscall him,) his youngest son, who sat next to him, an arch boy of about ten years old, took me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air, that I trembled every limb: but his fa-ther snatched me from him, and at the same time gave him such a box on the left ear, as would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the table.
-- One day the governess ordered our coachman to stop at several shops, where the beggars, watching their opportunity, crowded to the sides of the coach, and gave me the most horrible spec-tacle that ever a European eye beheld.
-- I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
-- This writer went through all the usual topics of European moralists, showing 'how diminu-tive, contemptible, and helpless an animal was man in his own nature; how unable to defend himself from inclemen-cies of the air, or the fury of wild beasts: how much he was excelled by one creature in strength, by another in speed, by a third in foresight, by a fourth in industry.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, that Mr Merdle was already at no loss to discover means of occupying even his capital, and of fully employing even his active and vigorous intellect, Bar well knew: but he would venture to suggest that the question arose in his mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a position and so European a reputation did not owe it we would not say to himself, but we would say to Society, to possess himself of such influences as these; and to exercise them we would not say for his own, or for his party's, but we would say for Society's benefit.
扩展阅读：