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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (I was distracted now by the yelping of a number of dogs.)
-- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the miz-zen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
-- Farther under the star-board bulwark were some big hutches containing a number of rabbits, and a solitary llama was squeezed in a mere box of a cage forward.
-- 'The fact is, after I had made a number of human crea-tures I made a Thing.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,' said the mule, 'and the other's one of your friends.
-- 'Number Fifteen, E troop, Ninth Lancers Dick Cun-liffe's horse.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- 'I have been on their trail,' replied the young Indian, 'and know that they number as many as the fingers of my two hands; but they lie hid like cowards.'
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
-- 'If there was one of the imps yelling this morning, there were for-ty!and they know our number and quality too well to give up the chase so soon.
-- Why linger to add to the number of the victims of our merciless enemies?'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a salutary discipline to consider the vast number of books that are written, the fair hopes with which their authors see them published, and the fate which awaits them.
-- The Stricklands "owed" dinners to a number of persons, whom they took no interest in, and so had asked them; these persons had accepted.
-- There were a number of harlots in the tavern: some were sitting with men, others by themselves; and presently I noticed that one of these was looking at us.
-- We were like tram-cars running on their lines from terminus to terminus, and it was possible to calculate within small limits the number of passengers they would carry.
-- In a handsome gold frame was a copy of Velasquez' Innocent X., that Stroeve had made in Rome, and placed so as to make the most of their decorative effect were a number of Stroeve's pictures, all in splendid frames.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Five days afterwards four of them were thrown on a desert coast, seven thousand miles from their country!But one of their number was missing, the man who was to be their guide, their leading spirit, the engineer, Captain Harding!The instant they had recovered their feet, they all hurried to the beach in the hopes of rendering him assistance.
-- The shape of these objects was clumsy and defective, but after they had been baked in a high temperature, the kitchen of the Chimneys was provided with a number of utensils, as precious to the settlers as the most beautifully enameled china.
-- "And the great number of animals which still inhabit it," added Herbert.
-- Formerly, at the first periods of creation, nature employing fire, heaved up the land, but now she entrusts to these microscopic creatures the task of replacing this agent, of which the dynamic power in the interior of the globe has evidently diminished which is proved by the number of volcanoes on the surface of the earth, now actually extinct.
-- At the point of the lake which projected to the north, they had discovered an osier- bed in which grew a large number of purple osiers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How should you like to be my number two, Nelly?'
-- 'My number two, Nelly, my second, my Mrs Quilp,' said the dwarf.
-- Mr Quilp, either because frightening anybody afforded him a constitutional delight, or because it was pleasant to contemplate the death of Mrs Quilp number one, and the elevation of Mrs Quilp number two to her post and title, or because he was determined from purposes of his own to be agreeable and good-humoured at that particular time, only laughed and feigned to take no heed of her alarm.
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