twice是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 两次， 两倍，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if they had been twice as many ah, four times old Fezziwig would have been a match for them, and so would Mrs Fezziwig.
-- And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words be-tween some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humour was restored directly.
-- It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yielding to his own disturbance of mind, and to his young companion's agitation, which be-came greater every instant, Mr. Jarvis Lorry twice stopped to rest.
-- Soon raising his head again, he struck twice or thrice upon the door evidently with no other object than to make a noise there.
-- He turned into the Temple, and, having revived himself by twice pacing the pavements of King's Bench-walk and Paper-buildings, turned into the Stryver chambers.
-- The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offen-sive.
-- Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was that she had heard his words, or that she did not want to hear them, she made a sort of stumble, twice struck out, and hurriedly skated away from him.
-- He walked with his firm tread twice up and down the little cage of a room, blinked his eyelids that his tears might not fall, and only then sat down to the table.
-- Twice she uttered her usual cuckoo call, and then gave a hoarse, hurried call and broke down.
-- "I know," he thought, "that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it.
-- While he was changing his clothes, his valet told him that the second race had begun already, that a lot of gentlemen had been to ask for him, and a boy had twice run up from the stables.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The best of fare was spread upon the cabin tables at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the eight o'clock supper, and the ladies scrupulously changed their toilets twice a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games.
-- Twice it could have been all over with her if the crew had not been constantly on the watch.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Martin Arrowsmith, if you think for one moment that I'm ever going to marry a vulgar, crude, selfish, microbe-grubbing smart aleck--" "And if you think I'm going to marry a dame that keeps nag-nag- naggin' and jab-jab-jabbin' at me all day long--" They hurt each other; they had pleasure in it; and they parted forever, twice they parted forever, the second time very rudely, near a fraternity-house where students were singing heart-breaking summer songs to a banjo.
-- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.
-- They dined together twice in two weeks, and only twice in that time, though she telephoned to him, did Martin see his honest affianced, Madeline.
-- Gottlieb had twice to ask him whether he had prepared the new batch of medium, and Gottlieb was an autocrat, sterner with his favorites than with the ruck of students.
-- Once or twice he lost his temper with jovial villagers who bountifully explained to him that he was less aged than he might have been; once or twice he drank too much whisky at poker parties in the back room of the Co- operative Store; but he was known as reliable, skillful, and honest--and on the whole he was rather less distinguished than Alec Ingleblad the barber, less prosperous than Nils Krag the carpenter, and less interesting to his neighbors than the Finnish garageman.
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：
-- I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!'
-- I've been waiting for the last three hours for you; I've been up twice and found you asleep.
-- 'I've been to you twice to-day, brother.
-- One has to be twice as careful with a boy.
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