van是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 有篷汽车； 有篷货运车厢，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：
-- It was not that he was so glad to see a real Patagonian, by whom he looked a perfect pigmy—a Patagonian who might have almost rivaled the Emperor Maximii, and that Congo negro seen by the learned Van der Brock, both eight feet high; but he caught up Spanish phrases from the Indian and studied the language without a book this time, gesticulating at a great rate all the grand sonorous words that fell on his ear.
-- It was on the 13th of December, 1642, that the Dutch navigator Tasman, after discovering Van Diemen's Land, sighted the unknown shores of New Zealand.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some men have but felt some little qualm of kindness towards their fellow-men, and the fact has been quite enough to persuade them that they stand alone in the van of enlightenment and that no one has such humanitarian feelings as they.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These two stood in the van of the Phthians, and defended the ships along with the Boeotians.
-- They flew forth like the blasts of somefierce wind that strike earth in the van of a thunderstorm they buffet the salt sea into an uproar; many and mighty are the great waves that come crashing in one after the oth-er upon the shore with their arching heads all crested with foam even so did rank behind rank of Trojans arrayed in gleaming armour follow their leaders onward.
-- Or as a savage lion attacking a herd of cows while they are feeding by thousands in the low-lying meadows by some wide-watered shore the herdsman is at his wit's end how to protect his herd and keeps going about now in the van and now in the rear of his cattle, while the lion springs into the thick of them and fastens on a cow so that they all tremble for fear even so were the Achaeans utterly panic-stricken by Hector and father Jove.
-- All the best of them were being worn out by the great weight of their armour, but the two valiant heroes, Thra-symedes and Antilochus, had not yet heard of the death of Patroclus, and believed him to be still alive and leading the van against the Trojans; they were keeping themselves in reserve against the death or rout of their own comrades, for so Nestor had ordered when he sent them from the ships into battle.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the tender, setting the platform more and more slowly swaying, came the luggage van with a dog whining in it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She spoke familiarly of what were known as the Leaders of Zenith Society, the personages who appeared daily in the society columns of the Advocate-Times, the Cowxes and Van Antrims and Dodsworths.
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：
-- 'In another week, another month I shall be driven in a prison van over this bridge, how shall I look at the canal then?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sound of the rider in their van could now be discovered.
-- It was ten o'clock at least, when, walking deliberately through the lower part of Weatherbury, he heard the carrier's spring van entering the village.
-- The van ran to and from a town in a northern direction, and it was owned and driven by a Weatherbury man, at the door of whose house it now pulled up.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land.
-- which I had reason to believe lay to the north-east of Van Diemen's Land.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes.
-- Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
-- "Three hundred and fifty-four West Van Buren Street, care S. C.
-- Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--OF GRANITE AND BRASS Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being called, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of labourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the rush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year.
-- She walked east along Van Buren Street through a region of lessening importance, until it deteriorated into a mass of shanties and coal-yards, and finally verged upon the river.
-- In passing through Fifth Avenue, south towards Van Buren Street, where she intended to take a car, she passed the door of a large wholesale shoe house, through the plate-glass windows of which she could see a middle-aged gentleman sitting at a small desk.
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