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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I hope not,' returned Mr Swiveller, 'but the average number of letters it take to soften her is six, and this time we have got as far as eight without any effect at all.
-- Bless us, what a number of gentlemen on horseback there were riding up and down, and how few of them wanted their horses held!A good city speculator or a parliamentary commissioner could have told to a fraction, from the crowds that were cantering about, what sum of money was realised in London, in the course of a year, by holding horses alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The joy of spring felt by animals and men did not penetrate the office of the county jail, but the one thing of supreme importance there was a document received the previous evening, with title, number and seal, which ordered the bringing into court for trial, this 28th day of April, at nine o'clock in the morning, three prisoners--two women and one man.
-- Beside them lay the last number of the "Revue des deux Mondes," newspapers and his mail.
-- At this moment he was occupied with the following enigmatical proposition: If the number of steps in the distance between the cabinet-door and the arm-chair will divide by three without a remainder, then the new regimen will cure him; but if it does not so divide, then it will not.
-- Then commenced the customary proceeding; calling of the jurymen, fining the absent ones, listening to the claims of exemption from jury duty and filling the panel from a number of reserves.
-- "The gentleman has his own," Timon stood up for the independence of the guest, proudly pointing to the open traveling bag with silver lids, containing a large number of bottles, brushes, perfumes and all sorts of toilet articles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw a number of tall spikes of strange white flowers, measuring a foot perhaps across the spread of the waxen petals.
-- "Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions.
-- Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
-- It was so like a human spider!It was clambering down the wall, and now I saw for the first time a number of metal foot and hand rests forming a kind of ladder down the shaft.
-- This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue a Faun, or some such figure, minus the head.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning.
-- Now for number three: you unwound every bit of the worsted while I wasn't looking!
-- There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
-- Then a very gentle voice in the distance said, 'She must be labelled "Lass, with care," you know 'And after that other voices went on ('What a number of people there are in the carriage!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.
-- It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
-- I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
-- The cry he gave was echoed not only by his companions on board but by a great number of voices from the shore, and looking in that direction I saw the other pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling into their places in the boats.
-- I went into the cellar; all the barrels were gone, and of the bottles a most surprising number had been drunk out and thrown away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- I discussed the question in all its forms, politically and scientifically; and I give here an extract from a carefully-studied article which I published in the number of the 30th of April.
-- It rallied round it a certain number of partisans.
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