numerous是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 许许多多的,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:
-- with many com-pliments too numerous and forcible to repeat.
-- 'They are very numerous and very loud, though, are they not?
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:
-- The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein; a pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen burghers, and a few scholars, sat here in deep converse over their pewter cans, and gave little heed to the person who entered.
-- Gerda knew every flower; and, numerous as they were, it still seemed to Gerda that one was wanting, though she did not know which.
-- They slept; the young couple gov-erned in the forest, and had a numerous progeny, but they were never boiled, and never came on the silver dishes; so from this they concluded that the manor-house had fallen to ruins, and that all the men in the world were extinct; and as no one contradicted them, so, of course it was so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His ideas of marriage were, consequently, quite unlike those of the great majority of his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
-- This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tributaries of the Godavery.
-- From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.
-- Arrived!Arrived at the station which is in daily communication, by numerous trains, with the Atlantic seaboard!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At clinic luncheons he met surgeons from London, New York, Boston; men with limousines and social positions and the offensive briskness of the man who has numerous engagements, or the yet more offensive quietness of the person who is amused by his inferiors; master technicians, readers of papers at medical congresses, executives and controllers, unafraid to operate before a hundred peering doctors, or to give well-bred and exceedingly final orders to subordinates; captain- generals of medicine, never doubting themselves, great priests and healers; men mature and wise and careful and blandly cordial.
-- He Published one cautious paper on phage in plague, which was mentioned in numerous scientific journals.
-- But McGurk promised that he would pull his numerous wires to have the McGurk Commission (Chairman, Martin Arrowsmith, B.A., M.D.)
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:
-- The insufferable stench from the pot- houses, which are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed the revolting misery of the picture.
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
-- She has a room at the Kapernaumovs' the tailors, she lodges with them; Kapernaumov is a lame man with a cleft palate and all of his numerous family have cleft palates too.
-- But, strange to say, the more numerous and violent the terms of abuse became, the more amiable she looked, and the more seductive the smiles she lavished on the terrible assistant.
-- He could hear passers-by, always numerous in that part, but he could not be seen from the entrance, unless someone came in from the street, which might well happen indeed, so there was need of haste.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having uttered which with greatdistinctness, she begged the favour of being shown to her room,which became to me from that time forth a place of awe and dread,wherein the two black boxes were never seen open or known to beleft un- locked, and where (for I peeped in once or twice when shewas out) numerous little steel fetters and rivets, with which MissMurdstone embellished herself when she was dressed, generallyhung upon the looking-glass in formidable array.
-- My papa lived to bail Mr. Micawber several times, andthen expired, regretted by a numerous circle.'
-- When I came home in theafternoon, and saw the bottles drawn up in a square on the pantry-floor, they looked so numerous (though there were two miss- ing, 335which made Mrs. Crupp very uncomfortable), that I was absolutelyfrightened at them.
-- As we arenot particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions,if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning ornecessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be buta great parade of them.
-- Among this correspondence, there dropped in, every now andthen, an obliging proposal from one of the numerous outsidersalways lurking about the Commons, to practise under cover of myname (if I would take the necessary steps remaining to make aproctor of myself), and pay me a percentage on the profits.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The less worthy females were to come in the eve-ning, with Miss Bates, Miss Fairfax, and Miss Smith; but already, at dinner, they were too numerous for any subject of conversation to be general; and, while politics and Mr. Elton were talked over, Emma could fairly surrender all her attention to the pleasantness of her neighbour.
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