number是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 数， 数字， 数量， 号码， 一群v. 共计， 编号，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spoke of Gottlieb's great book, "Immunology," which had been read by seven-ninths of all the men in the world who could possibly understand it--the number of these being nine.
-- Oh, no; the bird that succeeds is the one that gets an office on a northeast corner, near a trolley car junction, with a 'phone number that'll be easy for patients to remember!Honest!He said so!I swear, when I graduate I believe I'll be a ship's doctor.
-- There had been a meeting of a faculty committee; the blame for the Benoni Carr outrage had been placed on Clif; and the dean had said all the things Clif had imagined, with a number which he had not possessed the talent to conceive.
-- The total number of his papers, in a brisk scientific realm where really clever people published five times a year, was not more than twenty-five in thirty years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It opened from a stinking little black courtyard, and was the general public entrance to a great pile of houses, inhabited by a great number of people.
-- At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged.
-- 182 A tale of two citiesX Two Promises ore months, to the number of twelve, had come and Mgone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature.
-- 217XIV The Honest Tradesman o the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool Tin Fleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented.
-- 'Listen then, Jacques,' Number One of that name sternly interposed.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
-- * * As on the continent, in all law and police practices nothing is verbal, but any circumstance, however trifling, is reduced to writing, the labor, as well as the number of pa-pers that thus accumulate, is enormous.
-- What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.
-- She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even; that he knew the number of square miles there were in the differ-ent countries, and how many inhabitants they contained; and she smiled while he spoke.
-- 'I have had such an immense number of sweethearts!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Count the sands of the sea, number the stars.
-- The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at the fulfillment of their predictions, and were only waiting for a decisive turn in public opinion to fall upon her with all the weight of their scorn.
-- The greater number of the middle-aged people and certain great personages were displeased at the prospect of the impending scandal in society.
-- Vronsky drew the number seven.
-- "she calls Mademoiselle Varenka angel number one."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A number of fishing-smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea.
-- She brought an unusual number of passengers, some of whom remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the quay.
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- What with the military men, a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels, and the hospitable efforts of the purser, the time passed quickly on the Mongolia.
-- Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast.
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