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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The French document is decidedly the most complete of the three; but it is plain enough that each is the literal translation of the other, for they all contain exactly the same number of lines.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging.
-- BEING A SHORT, BUT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER, IN THIS HISTORY For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out of the pocket -handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought home,) and sometimes taking part in the game already described: which the two boys and the Jew played, regularly , every morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girls grieved over such a number of la-dies, but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only six with him from London his five sisters and a cousin.
-- I talked about the dance, and YOU ought to make some sort of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.'
-- He could number the fields in every direction, and could tell how many tress there were in the most dis-tant clump.
-- His princi-pal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham.
-- If he could anyhow discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare, he determined to make inquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossi-ble to find out the stand and number of the coach.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- I had no sooner fired, than from all parts of the wood there arose an innumerable number of fowls, of many sorts, making a confused screaming and crying, and every one according to his usual note, but not one of them of any kind that I knew.
-- - In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it, and im-posed upon myself to read a while every morning and every night; not tying myself to the number of chapters, but long as my thoughts should engage me.
-- Here was also an infinite number of fowls of many kinds, some which I had seen, and some which I had not seen before, and many of them very good meat, but such as I knew not the names of, except those called penguins.
-- Well, I began this work; and when I be-gan to enter upon it, and calculate how deep it was to be dug, how broad, how the stuff was to be thrown out, I found that, by the number of hands I had, being none but my own, it must have been ten or twelve years before I could have gone through with it; for the shore lay so high, that at the upper end it must have been at least twenty feet deep; so at length, though with great reluctancy, I gave this attempt over also.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HER wisdom too limited the number of their servants to three; two maids and a man, with whom they were speedily provided from amongst those who had formed their establishment at Norland.
-- Sir John was delighted; for to a man, whose prevailing anxiety was the dread of being alone, the acquisition of two, to the number of inhabitants in London, was something.
-- She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed with the spirited determination of disliking her at all events.
-- Nothing escaped HER minute observation and general curiosity; she saw every thing, and asked every thing; was never easy till she knew the price of every part of Marianne's dress; could have guessed the number of her gowns altogether with better judgment than Marianne herself, and was not without hopes of finding out before they parted, how much her washing cost per week, and how much she had every year to spend upon herself.
-- "They had already spent a week in this manner in Conduit Street, and Lady Middleton could not be displeased at their giving the same number of days to such near relations."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let's see," he went on, "I know quite a number of people in your town.
-- He was of a clean, saving disposition, and had already paid a number of monthly instalments on two lots far out on the West Side.
-- The possession of the money involved a number of points which perplexed her seriously.
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
-- In this atmosphere Hurstwood had moved for a number of years, not thinking deeply concerning it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark TwainEXPLANATORY N this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Mis-Isouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary 'Pike County' dialect; and four modified varieties of this last.
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