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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (It is strange how great a multitude of literary people there are who have had the advantages of friendship with some great man of their own profession who is, unfortunately, dead.)
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wild-fire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.
-- As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes.
-- The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament.
-- The others then put off every man his armour, took the horses from their chariots, and seated themselves in great multitude by the ship of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, who thereon feasted them with an abundant fu-neral banquet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up the staircase were piled a multitude of those bright-coloured pot things what are they?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night was calm and clear, and the reflection of the growing multitude of the stars shivered in the tran-quil heaving of the sea.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I neither spoke nor looked at anyone, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
-- When Mr. Gradgrind had presented Mrs. Bounderby, Sissy had suddenly turned her head, and looked, in wonder, in pity, in sorrow, in doubt, in a multitude of emotions, towards Louisa.
-- The multitude of doubtful faces (a little conscience-stricken) brightened at the sound, and took it up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three or four hours passed; the flies fell into the traps by hundreds; and at length one little life, hardly stronger than theirs, appeared among the multitude of lesser deaths.
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune's, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O.
-- A fine residence had been taken for them on the Corso, and there they took up their abode, in a city where everything seemed to be trying to stand still for ever on the ruins of something else except the water, which, following eternal laws, tumbled and rolled from its glorious multitude of fountains.
-- The multitude worshipped on trust though always distinctly knowing why but the officiators at the altar had the man habitually in their view.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Love covers a multitude of sins, and of whom could you ask more freely than of him?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.
-- Every one knows what a multitude of things beds, sauce-pans, knives and forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are indispensable to the business of housekeeping.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no such happy marriage could now teach the admir-ing multitude what connubial felicity really was.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe few people have thought much upon the strange multitude of little things necessary in the providing, pro-ducing, curing, dressing, making, and finishing this one article of bread.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was the great Fair store with its multitude of delivery wagons about its long window display, its crowd of shoppers.
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