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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why its needle points to the south and not to the north."
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：
-- Gulf impass-able, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps nonexistent south of the Trent.
-- But wait!wait!Next winter she would get Clifford to London; the following winter she would get him abroad to the South of France, Italy.
-- The country rolled away in long undulations, south towards the Peak, east towards Mansfield and Nottingham.
-- 'I've been in India, and South Africa, and Egypt.'
-- 'Why shouldn't we go to South Africa?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But be easy, be easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin' you of has just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of 'balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he's sold all on 'em but one, and that one he's trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin' human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to churches.
-- There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South American ponchos.
-- However, I had never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the skin.
-- It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
-- All that is made such a flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as soon as it grew dusk in the evening, I changed my course, and steered directly south and by east, bending my course a little towards the east, that I might keep in with the shore; and having a fair, fresh gale of wind, and a smooth, quiet sea, I made such sail that I believe by the next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when I first made the land, I could not be less than one hundred and fifty miles south of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco's domin-ions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw no people.
-- By the best of my calculation, that place where I now was must be that country which, lying between the Em-peror of Morocco's dominions and the negroes, lies waste and uninhabited, except by wild beasts; the negroes having abandoned it and gone farther south for fear of the Moors, and the Moors not thinking it worth inhabiting by reason of its barrenness; and indeed, both forsaking it because of the prodigious number of tigers, lions, leopards, and other furious creatures which harbour there; so that the Moors use it for their hunting only, where they go like an army, two or three thousand men at a time; and indeed for near a hundred miles together upon this coast we saw nothing but a waste, uninhabited country by day, and heard nothing but howlings and roaring of wild beasts by night.
-- In the night, I took my first con-trivance, and got up in a tree, where I slept well; and the next morning proceeded upon my discovery; travelling nearly four miles, as I might judge by the length of the val-ley, keeping still due north, with a ridge of hills on the south and north side of me.
-- The half of October, the whole of November, December, and January, and the half of February - dry, the sun being then to the south of the line.
-- that on the south side, which had hurried me away, and that on the north, which lay about a league on the other side; I say, between these two, in the wake of the island, I found the water at least still, and run-ning no way; and having still a breeze of wind fair for me, I kept on steering directly for the island, though not making such fresh way as I did before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her indifferent wandering she turned into Jackson Street, not far from the river, and was keeping her way along the south side of that imposing thoroughfare, when a piece of wrapping paper, written on with marking ink and tacked up on the door, attracted her attention.
-- 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.
-- They went out, and he walked with her far out south toward Polk Street, talking.
-- It connected Douglas Park with Washington or South Park, and was nothing more than a neatly MADE road, running due south for some five miles over an open, grassy prairie, and then due east over the same kind of prairie for the same distance.
-- The races in question were soon to open at Washington Park, on the South Side, and were considered quite society affairs among those who did not affect religious rectitude and conservatism.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the South one man all by himself, has stopped a stage full of men in the daytime, and robbed the lot.
-- We was down south in the warm weather now, and a mighty long ways from home.
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