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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees the fog disappeared under the action of the sun's rays, the radiant orb rose from behind the eastern horizon.
-- The solar rays pierced the curtain of clouds, piled up on the eastern horizon, and the radiant orb rose rapidly.
-- What an indescribable spectacle, and what variety of sites and landscapes along these sandbanks and volcanic islands which bound the Libyan coast!But where these shrubs appeared in all their beauty was on the eastern coast, which the Nautilus soon gained.
-- The coast on the eastern side looked like a mass faintly printed upon a damp fog.
-- It was the Canadian he could not be mistaken who signalled a whale on the eastern horizon.
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：
-- Dawn roused faintly behind the eastern hill.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun came forth again, the earth brightened, and a low but brilliant violet tinged rainbow, broken at one end, appeared in the eastern horizon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As the eastern sky grew brighter, and the light of the day came on and its vivid colouring returned upon the world once more, I scanned the view keenly.
-- The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast.
-- I will confess that I was far too much taken up with what was going on to be of the slightest use as sentry; indeed, I had already deserted my eastern loophole and crept up behind the captain, who had now seated himself on the threshold, with his elbows on his knees, his head in his hands, and his eyes fixed on the water as it bubbled out of the old iron kettle in the sand.
-- I stole round by the eastern end, keeping close in shadow, and at a convenient place, where the darkness was thickest, crossed the palisade.
-- Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands a great field of open sea upon the east.
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