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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- This prince was so gracious as to order a guard to conduct me to Glanguenstald, which is a royal port to the south- west part of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Personally, I consider Bolshevism half-witted; but so do I consider our social life in the west half-witted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Sparkler considered it a parallel case to that of some of our fellows in the West Indies with Yellow Jack.
-- Mrs Sparkler closed her eyes again, and refused to have any consciousness of our fellows of the West Indies, or of Yellow Jack.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Exactly, for Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south, and I haven't had an easterly spell since I was married.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South.
-- It is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor' West Coast, and various other parts of the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.
-- Hence, by inference, it has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West Passage, so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale.
-- It might have been darted by some Nor' West Indian long before America was discovered.
-- Though banding together in tens of thousands, the lion-maned buffaloes of the West have fled before a solitary horseman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the old lady had been so kind to him in his illness, he endeavoured to think no more of the subject just then; so he listened attentively to a great many stories she told him, about an amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to an amiable and handsome man, and lived in the country; and about a son, who was clerk to a merchant in the West Indies; and who was, also, such a good young man, and wrote such dutiful letters home four times a-year, that it brought the tears into her eyes to talk about them.
-- She presently returned, and said, that Mr. Brownlow had sold off his goods, and gone to the West Indies, six weeks before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of lon-gitude difference west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; and began to consult with me what course he should take, for the ship was leaky, and very much disabled, and he was going di-rectly back to the coast of Brazil.
-- I was now at a great loss which way to get home with my boat!I had run so much hazard, and knew too much of the case, to think of attempting it by the way I went out; and what might be at the other side (I mean the west side) I knew not, nor had I any mind to run any more ventures; so I resolved on the next morning to make my way west-ward along the shore, and to see if there was no creek where I might lay up my frigate in safety, so as to have her again if I wanted her.
-- that the tide of ebb setting from the west, and joining with the current of waters from some great river on the shore, must be the occasion of this current, and that, according as the wind blew more forcibly from the west or from the north, this current came nearer or went farther from the shore; for, waiting thereabouts till evening, I went up to the rock again, and then the tide of ebb being made, I plainly saw the current again as before, only that it ran farther off, being near half a league from the shore, whereas in my case it set close upon the shore, and hurried me and my canoe along with it, which at another time it would not have done.
-- After I had thus secured one part of my lit-tle living stock, I went about the whole island, searching for another private place to make such another deposit; when, wandering more to the west point of the island than I had ever done yet, and looking out to sea, I thought I saw a boat upon the sea, at a great distance.
-- With these resolutions in my thoughts, I set myself upon the scout as often as possible, and indeed so often that I was heartily tired of it; for it was above a year and a half that I waited; and for great part of that time went out to the west end, and to the south- west corner of the island almost ev-ery day, to look for canoes, but none appeared.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "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.
-- He was of a clean, saving disposition, and had already paid a number of monthly instalments on two lots far out on the West Side.
-- Carrie turned her face to the west with a subdued heart.
-- Drouet had taken three rooms, furnished, in Ogden Place, facing Union Park, on the West Side.
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