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：
-- That a number of children quite adequately died did not make them relinquish their comic epic.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to the proximity of the Hay Market, the number of establishments of bad character, the preponderance of the trading and working class population crowded in these streets and alleys in the heart of Petersburg, types so vari-ous were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise.
-- But, seeing a number of people on the landing, she grew bolder, and opened the door wide.
-- All of a sudden there was a great uproar of shouting, singing and the balala脙炉ka, and from the tavern a number of big and very drunken peasants came out, wearing red and blue shirts and coats thrown over their shoulders.
-- He was fashionably dressed and foppish, with his hair parted in the middle, well combed and pomaded, and wore a number of rings on his well-scrubbed fingers and a gold chain on his waistcoat.
-- Sometimes it seemed as though there were a number of people round him; they wanted to take him away somewhere, there was a great deal of squabbling and discussing about him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could observe, in little 28pieces, as it were; but as to making a net of a number of thesepieces, and catching anybody in it, that was, as yet, beyond me.
-- said I, putting question number two of the catechismto Mr. Peggotty.
-- The Master at Salem House lifted the latch of one of a number oflittle black doors that were all alike, and had each a little diamond-paned window on one side, and another little diamond-panedwindow above; and we went into the little house of one of thesepoor old women, who was blowing a fire to make a little saucepanboil.
-- He was a sort of towntraveller for a number of miscellaneous houses, now; but madelittle or nothing of it, I am afraid.
-- You know as well as I do, that your cousin Maldon would bedragged at the heels of any number of wild horses- why should Iconfine myself to four!I won't confine myself to foureight, sixteen,two-and-thirty, rather than say anything calculated to overturn theDoctor's plans.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this inspiriting notion, her questions increased in number and meaning; and she particularly led Harriet to talk more of Mr. Martin, and there was evidently no dislike to it.
-- He thought much of the evils of the journey for her, and not a little of the fatigues of his own horses and coachman who were to bring some of the party the last half of the way; but his alarms were needless; the sixteen miles being hap-pily accomplished, and Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, their five children, and a competent number of nursery-maids, all reaching Hartfield in safety.
-- It would hold the very number for comfort.
-- They added to their house, to their number of servants, to their expenses of every sort; and by this time were, in fortune and style of living, second only to the family at Hartfield.
-- Emma found that it was not Mr. Weston's fault that the number of privy councillors was not yet larger.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said number four, fervidly.
-- The greater number carried in their hands ground-ash saplings, using them partly as walking-sticks and partly for poking up pigs, sheep, neighbours with their backs turned, and restful things in general, which seemed to require such treatment in the course of their peregrinations.
-- The total number of sheep which had thus strayed and injured themselves so dangerously was fifty-seven.
-- He flourished the sword by way of introduction number two, and the next thing of which she was conscious was that the point and blade of the sword were darting with a gleam towards her left side, just above her hip; then of their reappearance on her right side, emerging as it were from between her ribs, having apparently passed through her body.
-- Silent and alone, he had remained in moody meditation on woman's ways, deeming as essentials of the whole sex the accidents of the single one of their number he had ever closely beheld.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He belonged to the number of young men who know as children that their parents' hopes are centered on them, and deliberately prepare themselves for a great career, subordinating their studies from the first to this end, carefully watching the indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them.
-- Why did they subject the oldest among their number to a kind of persecution, in which there was mingled some pity, but no respect for his misfortunes?
-- The widow's eyes gleamed as she obligingly helped him to unpack the soup ladles, table-spoons, forks, cruet-stands, tureens, dishes, and breakfast services--all of silver, which were duly arranged upon shelves, besides a few more or less handsome pieces of plate, all weighing no inconsiderable number of ounces; he could not bring himself to part with these gifts that reminded him of past domestic festivals.
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