multitude是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大批, 大群, 众多，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, which of the multitude of faces that showed them-selves before him was the true face of the buried person, the shadows of the night did not indicate; but they were all the faces of a man of five-andforty by years, and they differed principally in the passions they expressed, and in the ghastliness of their worn and wasted state.
-- 'A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!'
-- If he needed a King and Queen to restore him, he was fortunate in having his remedy at hand; for, soon the large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen came in their golden coach, attended by the 246 A tale of two citiesshining Bull's Eye of their Court, a glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords; and in jewels and silks and powder and splendour and elegantly spurning figures and handsomely disdainful faces of both sexes, the mender of roads bathed himself, so much to his temporary intoxica-tion, that he cried Long live the King, Long live the Queen, Long live everybody and everything!as if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time.
-- Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the pressure of busi-ness imposed on the Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it had to deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the Abbaye in fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic remembrance until three days ago; when he had been summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury's declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen Evremonde, called Darnay.
-- His unpopularity with the blackguard multitude at the moment prevented my follow-ing his remains, but I helped to lay him in his coffin.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was like the sound of a church-bell: but it was only heard for a moment, for the rolling of the carriages and the voices of the multitude made too great a noise.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The slumbering multitude became animated, the tambourines sounded, songs and cries arose; the hour of the sacrifice had come.
-- The whole multitude prostrated themselves, terror-stricken, on the ground.
-- On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles; amid the foliage of the weeping willows were herons, solemnly standing on one leg; and on every hand were crows, ducks, hawks, wild birds, and a multitude of cranes, which the Japanese consider sacred, and which to their minds symbolise long life and prosperity.
-- Sombreros and red shirts and plumed Indians were rarely to be seen; but there were silk hats and black coats everywhere worn by a multitude of nervously active, gentlemanly-looking men.
-- It was not improbable, so agitated was the multitude before them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who 'gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know what a multitude of things he has shut out for mysake, and how his anxious thoughts of me have shadowed his life,and weakened his strength and energy, by turning them alwaysupon one idea.
-- I had reached my owngate, and was standing listening for the deep bell of Saint Paul's,the sound of which I thought had been borne towards me amongthe multitude of striking clocks, when I was rather surprised to seethat the door of my aunt's cottage was open, and that a faint lightin the entry was shining out across the road.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A group or two of the latest in date amongst the dead multitude had remained till this very mid-winter time on the twigs which bore them and in falling rattled against the trunks with smart taps.
-- Bathsheba's eyes, shaded by one hand, were following the ascending multitude against the unexplorable stretch of blue till they ultimately halted by one of the unwieldy trees spoken of.
-- Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes.
-- But the large united flocks of Bathsheba and Farmer Boldwood formed a valuable and imposing multitude which demanded much attention, and on this account Gabriel, in addition to Boldwood's shepherd and Cain Ball, accompanied them along the way, through the decayed old town of Kingsbere, and upward to the plateau, old George the dog of course behind them.
-- Thus, in a slow procession, they entered the opening to which the roads tended, multitude after multitude, horned and hornless blue flocks and red flocks, buff flocks and brown flocks, even green and salmon-tinted flocks, according to the fancy of the colourist and custom of the farm.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not escape his eyes that not a crumb was wasted in the house, nor that the wine they drank was made from the second pressing; a 莽卢卢15 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 multitude of small things, which it is useless to speak of in detail here, made him burn to distinguish himself, and his ambition to succeed increased tenfold.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This aroused the stranger's attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the de-mon, as he called him, had pursued.
-- I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts 53would at least lay the foundations of future success.
-- If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as you do, and arm them-selves for my destruction.
-- I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
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