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。
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thither we had now to walk, and our way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless.
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：
-- Imbibing renewed confidence from the security of these experienced foresters, Heyward soon imitated their exam-ple; and long before the night had turned, they who lay in the bosom of the ruined work, seemed to slumber as heav-ily as the unconscious multitude whose bones were already beginning to bleach on the surrounding plain.
-- The artifice was answered by a hundred voices raised in -imprecations; and the whole of the excited multitude broke from their order, and spread themselves about the place in wild confusion.
-- Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
-- He followed the crowd, which drew nigh the lodges, gloomy and sullen, like any other multitude that had been disappointed in an execution.
-- None but the most dis-tinguished among the youthful warriors even presumed so far as to perform the latter ceremony, the great mass of the multitude deeming it a sufficient happiness to look upon a form so deeply venerated, and so well beloved.
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