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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy's lips were large and pendulous and, when indignant, she could push out her lower one to twice itsnormal length.
-- Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value,Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the "best damn valet on the Coast," wasthe first step upward toward his heart's desire, Gerald wanted to be a slave owner and a landed gentleman.
-- Theconduct of a widow must be twice as circumspect as that of a matron.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this I saw in a moment, for I had only a moment to see it in: he swore an oath at me, made a hit at me,--it was a round weak blow that missed me and almost knocked himself down, for it made him stumble,--and then he ran into the mist, stumbling twice as he went, and I lost him.
-- Before we departed from that spot, four soldiers standing in a ring, fired twice into the air.
-- Now it appeared to him (Pumblechook) that if that capital were got into the business, through a sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in, by self or deputy, whenever he pleased, and examine the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property, which would be worthy of his attention.
-- Then, all the children laughed, and Mr. Pocket (who in the meantime had twice endeavored to lift himself up by the hair) laughed, and we all laughed and were glad.
-- Twice five; will that do?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.
-- But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.
-- But God sent two angels from heaven in the shape of white doves, which flew to her twice a day, and carried her food until the seven years were over.
-- 'Nay,' said the bird, 'I do not sing twice for nothing.
-- 'Nay,' answered the bird, 'I do not sing twice for nothing; you must give me something.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- One of them was covered, and seemed all of a piece: but at the upper end of the other there appeared a white round substance, about twice the bigness of our heads.
-- Whoev-er performs his part with most agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the blue- coloured silk; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the middle; and you see few great persons about this court who are not adorned with one of these girdles.
-- Their parents are suffered to see them only twice a year; the visit is to last but an hour; they are allowed to kiss the child at meeting and parting; but a professor, who always stands by on those occasions, will not suffer them to whis-per, or use any fondling expressions, or bring any presents of toys, sweetmeats, and the like.
-- Then they measured my right thumb, and desired no more; for by a mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb is once round the wrist, and so on to the neck and the waist, and by the help of my old shirt, which I dis-played on the ground before them for a pattern, they fitted me exactly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
-- 'Perhaps twice the money.'
-- 'It might have been twice twenty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice we fancied they were about to leave us altogether, but instead of that, they came nearer and nearer.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems to me I've died once or twice already.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never was like this but twice over in the quarantine yonder; and both times you found me.
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