Britain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 不列颠， 英国，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.
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：
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If in his house there was but one comfortable chair, on his desk were letters, long, intimate, and respectful, from the great ones of France and Germany, Italy and Denmark, and from scientists whom Great Britain so much valued that she gave them titles almost as high as those with which she rewarded distillers, cigarette- manufacturers, and the owners of obscene newspapers.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Britain only could he further the execution of his plan.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt that this delicacy arose out of the consideration that the plan would save Herbert some expense, so I went off to Little Britain and imparted my wish to Mr. Jaggers.
-- I had taken care to have it well understood in Little Britain when my birthday was.
-- As I saw that he was restrained by fealty to Little Britain from saying as much as he could, and as I knew with thankfulness to him how far out of his way he went to say what he did, I could not press him.
-- At the office in Little Britain there was the usual letter-writing, hand-washing, candle-snuffing, and safe-locking, that closed the business of the day.
-- Chapter LIIFrom Little Britain I went, with my check in my pocket, to Miss Skiffins's brother, the accountant; and Miss Skiffins's brother, the accountant, going straight to Clarriker's and bringing Clarriker to me, I had the great satisfaction of concluding that arrangement.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a strong hope, which never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty: and as to the ignominy of being carried about for a monster, I con-sidered myself to be a perfect stranger in the country, and that such a misfortune could never be charged upon me as a reproach, if ever I should return to England, since the king of Great Britain himself, in my condition, must have under-gone the same distress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are not going to wear the bottoms of our boilers out any faster than we wear 'em out now, for all the humbugging sentiment in Great Britain and Ireland.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of 脗拢1,000,000?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The satisfaction of prevailing on one of the most worth-less young men in Great Britain to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place.
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