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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain gave immediate orders for the yacht to continue her route, steering to the west of the Canary group, and leaving Teneriffe on her larboard.
-- added Thalcave, speaking in Indian fashion of the route from west to east.
-- Moreover, the vicinity of the Atlantic, and the prevailing west wind, made the climate of this district particularly damp.
-- In a moment, as if some fireworks were being ignited, the flame ran along the west side of the OMBU; the dead wood and nests of dried grass, and the whole sap, which was of a spongy texture, supplied food for its devouring activity.
-- Tristan d'Acunha is situated in 37 degrees 8' of southern latitude, and 10 degrees 44' of longitude west of the meridian at Greenwich.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside the sun was sinking low and the west was blaz-ing with scarlet and gold.
-- The last red streaks had faded away in the west and night had settled upon the moor.
-- 'That is Rear-Admiral Baskerville, who served under Rodney in the West Indies.
-- It is suggestive that during the last three years there have been four considerable burglaries in the West Country, for none of which was any criminal ever arrested.
-- Thus I had made certain of the hound, and had guessed at the criminal before ever we went to the west country.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.
-- As when a goat-herd from some high post watches a storm drive over the deep before the west wind black as pitch is the offing and a mighty whirlwind draws towards him, so that he is afraid and drives his flock into a cave even thus did the ranks of stalwart youths move in a dark mass to battle under the Ajaxes, horrid with shield and spear.
-- As when some mighty wave that thunders on the beach when the west wind has lashed it into fury it has reared its head afar and now comes crashing down on the shore; it bows its arching crest high over the jagged rocks and spews its salt foam in all directions even so did the serried pha-lanxes of the Danaans march steadfastly to battle.
-- As when the rising west wind furs the face of the sea and the waters grow dark beneath it, so sat the companies of Trojans and Achaeans upon the plain.
-- As when the west wind hustles the clouds of the white south and beats them down with the fierceness of its fury the waves of the sea roll high, and the spray is flung aloft in the rage of the wandering wind even so thick were the heads of them that fell by the hand of Hector.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Hall stood there he heard his wife's voice coming out of the depth of the cellar, with that rapid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience.
-- Mr. Bunting was standing in the window engaged in an attempt to clothe himself in the hearth-rug and a West Surrey Gazette.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will go to the west wall,' Kaa whispered, 'and come down swiftly with the slope of the ground in my favor.
-- 'Good hunting,' said Kaa grimly, and glided away to the west wall.
-- Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.
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 writer remembers to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who spoke both their languages.
-- I had seen many regions, and had shed much blood in different lands, before duty called me to the islands of the West Indies.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side.
-- Looky here, you break for that light over yonder-way, and turn out west when you git there, and about a quarter of a mile out you'll come to the tavern; tell 'em to dart you out to Jim Hornback's, and he'll foot the bill.
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