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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.
-- It was one which could not fail to impress it-self deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I was.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You could promise, with your eyes, any number of exciting things that would make a man maneuver to getyou alone.
-- "The dancing is about to begin and the first number will, of course, be a reel, followed by a waltz.
-- Many of their number had traded easy living for hard death.
-- Now that Hood had had to retreat, quite a number wished, with the soldiers, that they had Old Joe back, but theyforbore saying it and took courage from Old Joe's remark: "I can hold Atlanta forever!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready!Present!Cover him steady, men!'
-- Chapter IXWhen I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about Miss Havisham's, and asked a number of questions.
-- When the fights were over, Biddy gave out the number of a page, and then we all read aloud what we could,--or what we couldn't--in a frightful chorus; Biddy leading with a high, shrill, monotonous voice, and none of us having the least notion of, or reverence for, what we were reading about.
-- Give me Number Four, you!"
-- Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, truly,' replied the peasant, 'I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the bar-rel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought 162 Grimms' Fairy Talesthis flock away with me.'
-- Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars; the laws that control the winds; the number of the sands on the seashore; the healing of the sick; the virtues of all sim-ples, of birds, and of precious stones.
-- On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their lan-guage; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
-- Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their ar-rows upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- I walked 55towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspec-tive glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Girl number twenty,' said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, 'I don't know that girl.
-- 'Sissy Jupe, sir,' explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtseying.
-- 'Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!'
-- 'Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals!Some boy's definition of a horse.
-- 'Now girl number twenty,' said Mr. Gradgrind.
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