eastern是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 东方的， 东部的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the husband had to drive to meet someone on official business, while the wife had to go to the concert and some public meeting of a committee on the Eastern Question, there was a great deal to consider and settle.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch, too, was in good spirits, and at tea his brother drew him on to explain his views of the future of the Eastern question, and he spoke so simply and so well, that everyone listened eagerly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast.
-- From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
-- The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being Laramie Peak.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (The Tozers were born in Illinois, but they had been in Dakota since childhood, and they regarded Wisconsin as the farthest, most perilous rim of the Eastern horizon.)
-- "Yes, it's fine--" "Trouble with the Eastern states is, they haven't got the git, or the room to grow.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood was listlessly noting how the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow, till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble; how, in some portions of the slope, withered grass-bents, encased in icicles, bristled through the smooth wan coverlet in the twisted and curved shapes of old Venetian glass; and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.
-- He lingered and lingered on, till there was no difference between the eastern and western expanses of sky, and the timid hares began to limp courageously round the dim hillocks.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We possessed a house 31in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
-- He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors.
-- The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of state in the flush of conquest was slowly wrought out of the quarry, the tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through the miles of hollow to the great iron ring.
-- For the beam across the parlor ceiling at Mill Pond Bank had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley's growls and was at peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought her back.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people; and Talthough they are not without some share of that pride which is peculiar to all Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers, especially such who are countenanced by the court.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reposing in the sunlight, with the fragrance of his eastern pipe about him, and the dreamy smoke vanishing into the air, so rich and soft with summer odours, he reckoned up his advantages as an idle winner might count his gains.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT CHAPTER 3 AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 5 FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING CHAPTER 6 OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND CHAPTER 7 CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST CHAPTER 9 OUR START--WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS CHAPTER 14 THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE CHAPTER 18 THE WRONG ROAD!
-- And fully partaking his stupefaction, if not his joy, I read on the eastern side of the huge block of stone, the same characters, half eaten away by the corrosive action of time, the name, to me a thousand times accursed- [Illustration: Runic Glyphs] "Arne Saknussemm!"
-- CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL The next day was Tuesday, the 30th of June--and at six o'clock in the morning we resumed our journey.
-- He pointed quietly to the eastern tunnel; and, without delay, we entered within its gloomy recesses.
-- Perhaps it was possible that in his pride--my uncle and a learned professor--he did not like to own that he was wrong in having chosen the eastern tunnel, or was he determined at any price to go to the end of it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stepped into the sober, silent, air-tight house one might have fancied it to have been stifled by Mutes in the Eastern manner and the door, closing again, seemed to shut out sound and motion.
-- He had been required to look over the title of a very considerable estate in one of the eastern counties lying, in fact, for Mr Merdle knew we lawyers loved to be particular, on the borders of two of the eastern counties.
-- The lady whom they had come to see, if she were the present occupant of the house, appeared to have taken up her quarters there as she might have established herself in an Eastern caravanserai.
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