west是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 西， 西方(的) ， 西部(的) ad. 向西，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：
-- Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Venus, bright and silvery, shone with her soft light low down in the west behind the birch trees, and high up in the east twinkled the red lights of Arcturus.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter V. IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS, UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN, APPEARS ON 'CHANGEPhileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would create a lively sensation at the West End.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wire-gang were as healthy and as simple as the west wind; they had no pretentiousness; though they handled electrical equipment they did not, like medics, learn a confusion of scientific terms and pretend to the farmers that they were scientists.
-- It was compared by traveling salesmen to the Parker House, the Palmer House, the West Hotel.
-- Drinking steadily, only half- conscious of whither he was going, of what he desired to do, shamefully haunted by Leora and Clif and the swift hands of Gottlieb, he flitted from Zenith to the city of Sparta, across to Ohio, up into Michigan, west to Illinois.
-- Miles of small wooden houses west of the factory were threatened, and shawled women, tousled men in trousers over nightshirts, tumbled out of bed and came running with a thick mutter of footsteps in the night- chilled streets.
-- He was the more assured because (though he sardonically refused it) he was at this time offered the medical deanship of the University of West Chippewa.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I forget now where they chiefly went,but I think there were some among them that made voyages bothto the East and West Indies.
-- The West End destination of the coach, is theGolden Cross.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A year and a half is the very utmost that they can have lived at West Hall; and how they got their fortune nobody knows.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the west hung the wasting moon, now dull and greenish-yellow, like tarnished brass.
-- From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.
-- At eight o'clock this midsummer evening, whilst the bristling ball of gold in the west still swept the tips of the ferns with its long, luxuriant rays, a soft brushing-by of garments might have been heard among them, and Bathsheba appeared in their midst, their soft, feathery arms caressing her up to her shoulders.
-- Up against this dark background the west front of the church tower the only part of the edifice visible from the farm-house windows rose distinct and lustrous, the vane upon the summit bristling with rays.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I know," answered Gerald, who did not care to disclose that Pork had supplied this valuable bit of information,or that Philippe had departed for the West at the express desire of his family.
-- He was expelled from West Point.
-- Far from thebattle lines, the town and its railroads provided the connecting link between the two armies of the Confederacy, thearmy in Virginia and the army in Tennessee and the West And Atlanta likewise linked both of the armies with thedeeper South from which they drew their supplies.
-- Everyone knew in detail how he hadbeen expelled from West Point for drunkenness and "something about women."
-- You're a West Pointer and " "You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At Hammersmith, west of London."
-- "I think I shall trade, also," said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, "to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the east wind and the west wind came, and said they too had not seen it, but the south wind said, 'I have seen the white dove he has fled to the Red Sea, and is changed once more into a lion, for the seven years are passed away, and there he is fighting with a dragon; and the dragon is an enchant-ed princess, who seeks to separate him from you.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune.
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