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：
-- "Yes, sir," replied Olbinett; "but I have not the honor of—""I am the passenger in cabin Number 6."
-- Just imagine no vines to speak of being in Madeira!In 1813, 22,000 pipes of wine were made there, and in 1845 the number fell to 2,669.
-- These AGUARAS are not very formidable either; and if it were not for their number I should not give them a thought."
-- Both from the noise of the howling and the multitude of shadows leaping about, Glenarvan had a pretty good idea of the number of the wolves, and he knew they had scented a good meal of human flesh or horse flesh, and none of them would go back to their dens without a share.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There were many insignificant sums to individuals, and a large number of public charities.
-- 'The cunning rascal!He knew our number, knew that Sir Henry Baskerville had consulted me, spotted who I was in Regent Street, conjectured that I had got the number of the cab and would lay my hands on the driver, and so sent back this audacious message.
-- 'It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here!Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor.'
-- The room had been fashioned into a small museum, and the walls were lined by a number of glass-topped cases full of that collection of butterflies and moths the formation of which had been the relaxation of this complex and danger-ous man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, the world spoke well of the girls; but they were not without their enemies, and occa-sionally people talked with horror of the number of books they had read.
-- To judge from the sounds which penetrated to the drawing-room, a number of people had already come in, and the stampede continued.
-- Gania rushed out towards the dining-room, but a number of men had already made their way in, and met him.
-- cried a number of voices.
-- Instantly the scene changed, crowds of friends gathered round our baron, who meanwhile had lost his head over a celebrated demi-mondaine; he even discovered some relations; moreover a number of young girls of high birth burned to be united to him in lawful matrimony.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight.
-- Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup-bearer.
-- Priam's son, great Hector of the gleaming helmet, com-manded the Trojans, and with him were arrayed by far the greater number and most valiant of those who were longing for the fray.
-- When they came to the part where the bravest and most in number were gathered about mighty Diomed, fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and en-durance, there Juno stood still and raised a shout like that of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together.
-- He took also twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crate after crate yielded bottles, until all six were empty and the table high with straw; the only things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance.
-- There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late April, when the first signs of penury began, he over-rode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment.
-- The two were then kicked, knelt on, fallen over, and cursed by quite a number of over-hasty people.
-- "Then I became aware of a blare of music, and looking along the street saw a number of people advancing out of Russell Square, red shirts, and the banner of the Salvation Army to the fore.
-- And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, the number was three.
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