south是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 南， 南方， 南部a. 南方的， 南部的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- COMING HOME A CRYOn the turnpike road, between Casterbridge and Weatherbury, and about three miles from the former place, is Yalbury Hill, one of those steep long ascents which pervade the highways of this undulating part of South Wessex.
-- make by 忙聥聣莽卤鲁莽陆聭茂录聢www.lmeee.com茂录聣CHAPTER L. THE SHEEP FAIR TROY TOUCHES HIS WIFE'S HANDGreenhill was the Nijni Novgorod of South Wessex; and the busiest, merriest, noisiest day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep fair.
-- The great mass of sheep in the fair consisted of South Downs and the old Wessex horned breeds; to the latter class Bathsheba's and Farmer Boldwood's mainly belonged.
-- Times had been when the farmer had exclaimed against all such niceties as childish, but now no philosophic or hasty rebuke whatever was provoked by this man for attaching as much importance to a crease in the coat as to an earthquake in South America.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw my change of feeling and continued, 'If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South America.
-- The ice cracked behind us and was driven with force towards the north; a breeze sprang from the west, and 267on the 11th the passage towards the south became perfect-ly free.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell The greatest love story of our times, the story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler...Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century.
-- The more sedate andolder sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack ofthe niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.
-- He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger'sdescription, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles inland from Savannah to the north and west, andnot many miles south of the Chattahoochee River.
-- The air was always thick with threats of selling slaves south and of direfulwhippings, but there never had been a slave sold from Tara and only one whipping, and that administered for notgrooming down Gerald's pet horse after, a long day's hunting.
-- It was merely a quaint custom of the County that daughters only married into families who hadlived in the South much longer than twenty-two years, had owned land and slaves and been addicted only to thefashionable vices during that time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He conducted us to Gerrard Street, Soho, to a house on the south side of that street.
-- You can't have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales, you know."
-- "That is the man," said Mr. Jaggers, "in New South Wales."
-- "And Magwitch--in New South Wales--having at last disclosed himself," said Mr. Jaggers, "you will comprehend, Pip, how rigidly throughout my communication with you, I have always adhered to the strict line of fact.
-- "I communicated to Magwitch--in New South Wales--when he first wrote to me--from New South Wales--the caution that he must not expect me ever to deviate from the strict line of fact.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of blue sky, but towards the south all was red, as if a dreadful storm was rising.
-- 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：
-- After three years expectation that things would mend, I accept-ed an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
-- The ves-sel was an English merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of 93Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor.
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.
-- I had now been two years in this country; and about the beginning of the third, Glumdalclitch and I attended the king and queen, in a progress to the south coast of the king-dom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As neither of the three could be his companion without almost identifying him under any disguise, he prepared a letter to a correspondent whom he could trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the most speedily and privately dispatched.
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