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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the latter case we shall carry him off at once, but in the event of the former, after we have reconnoitered the situation, we must go back to the DUNCAN on the eastern coast and get to Buenos Ayres, where we can soon organize a detachment of men, with Major McNabbs at their head, strong enough to tackle all the Indians in the Argentine provinces."
-- "Rather mountainous at first, and then sloping gently down the eastern side of the Andes into a smooth plain, turfed and graveled quite like a garden."
-- In thirty days we shall have gone over it, and gained the eastern side before the DUNCAN, however little she may be delayed by the westerly winds."
-- The valley of the Colorado was already sunk in shadow, and night was fast drawing her mantle over the eastern slopes of the Andes.
-- CHAPTER XIV PROVIDENTIALLY RESCUEDTHE eastern side of the Cordilleras of the Andes consists of a succession of lengthened declivities, which slope down almost insensibly to the plain.
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：
-- According to the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloud-less eastern sky.
-- 'See, and judge with your own eyes,' said the scout, ad-vancing toward the eastern brow of the mountain, whither he beckoned for the whole party to follow; 'if it was as easy to look into the heart of man as it is to spy out the naked-ness of Montcalm's camp from this spot, hypocrites would grow scarce, and the cunning of a Mingo might prove a los-ing game, compared to the honesty of a Delaware.'
-- Directly on the shore of the lake, and nearer to its west-ern than to its eastern margin, lay the extensive earthen ramparts and low buildings of William Henry.
-- Batteries were already thrown up in their front, and even while the spectators above them were looking down, with such different emo-tions, on a scene which lay like a map beneath their feet, the roar of artillery rose from the valley, and passed off in thun-dering echoes along the eastern hills.
-- A hundred gay and thoughtless young Frenchmen were drawing a net to the pebbly beach, within dangerous prox-imity to the sullen but silent cannon of the fort, while the eastern mountain was sending back the loud shouts and gay merriment that attended their sport.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- n the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent Ithe eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently short-ened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun rose in a pure sky and flooded with his rays all the eastern side of the mountain.
-- The engineer now proposed to his companions to climb the slope, and to return to the Chimneys by the heights, while exploring the northern and eastern shores of the lake.
-- The settlers were now following the eastern bank of the lake, and they would not be long in reaching the part which they already knew.
-- The next day, the 21st of May, at daybreak, the miners went to the point which formed the eastern shore of Lake Grant, and was only five hundred feet from the coast.
-- But what a contrast between this and the eastern coast, upon which chance had first thrown them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dinner of soup and a pigeon-pie, served on a little round table before the fire, and flavoured with a bottle of good wine, oiled Mr Pancks's works in a highly effective manner; so that when Clennam produced his Eastern pipe, and handed Mr Pancks another Eastern pipe, the latter gentleman was perfectly comfortable.
-- Relieved by having got to this, Mr Pancks took as long a pull as his lungs would permit at his Eastern pipe, and looked sagaciously and steadily at Clennam while inhaling and exhaling too.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him, poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can."
-- "On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but I crave your courtesy may be, you shall soon hear further of all that.
-- Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked in battle among the clouds.
-- And so Starbuck found Ahab with a general chart of the oriental archipelagoes spread before him; and another separate one representing the long eastern coasts of the Japanese islands Niphon, Matsmai, and Sikoke.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, came straggling groups of labourers going to their work; then, men and women with fish-baskets on their heads; donkey-carts laden with vegetables; chaise-carts filled with live-stock or whole carcasses of meat; milk-women with pails; an unbroken concourse of people, trudging out with various supplies to the eastern suburbs of the town.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, I spent some time to find out the most re-tired parts of the island; and I pitched upon one, which was as private, indeed, as my heart could wish: it was a little damp piece of ground in the middle of the hollow and thick woods, where, as is observed, I almost lost myself once be-fore, endeavouring to come back that way from the eastern part of the island.
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