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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Upon my word,' exclaimed Emma, 'you amuse me!I should like to know how many of all my numerous engage-ments take place without your being of the party; and why I am to be supposed in danger of wanting leisure to attend to the little boys.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The numerous evidences of her power to attract were only thrown into greater relief by a marked exception.
-- There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further objections had been raised.
-- On Yalbury Hill, about midway between Weatherbury and Casterbridge, where the turnpike road passes over the crest, a numerous concourse of people had gathered, the eyes of the greater number being frequently stretched afar in a northerly direction.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may survey its surface and describe it; but no matter how numerous and painstaking the toilers in this sea, there will always be lonely and unexplored regions in its depths, caverns unknown, flowers and pearls and monsters of the deep overlooked or forgotten by the divers of literature.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.
-- At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
-- He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen had taught her that at the end of each day it was her duty to examine her conscience thoroughly,to admit her numerous faults and pray to God for forgiveness and strength never to repeat them.
-- Visitors presented no problem, for houses were large, servants numerous and the feeding of severalextra mouths a minor matter in that land of plenty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, they have now equipped a numerous fleet, and are just preparing to make a descent upon us; and his imperial majesty, placing great confidence in your valour and strength, has commanded me to lay this account of his affairs before you.'
-- I would entertain myself in forming and directing the minds of hopeful young men, by convincing them, from my own remem-brance, experience, and observation, fortified by numerous examples, of the usefulness of virtue in public and private life.
-- He took notice of a general tradition, 'that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many 346 Gulliver's Travelsages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniam-shy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agil-ity of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Banks, I know, are always suspicious, and officially must be,' said the stranger, whose lightness and smoothness of speech were pleasant likewise; suggesting matter far more sensible and humorous than it ever contained which was perhaps a shrewd device of the founder of this numerous sect, whosoever may have been that great man: 'therefore I may observe that my letter here it is is from the member for this place Gradgrind whom I have had the pleasure of knowing in London.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first instance we crossed some narrow streets, where we met numerous groups of galley slaves, with particolored trousers, grey and yellow, working under the orders and the sticks of severe taskmasters, and finally reached the Vor-Frelser's-Kirk.
-- We met with numerous streams and rivulets which it was necessary to ford, and that without wetting our baggage.
-- Its sides, which were almost as perpendicular as those of a well, presented numerous projections which doubtless would assist our descent.
-- Hence arose numerous fissures, and continual falling in of the upper earth.
-- The leaves were wholly devoid of verdure, and the flowers, so numerous during the Tertiary period which gave them birth, were without color and without perfume, something like paper discolored by long exposure to the atmosphere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were in three parties; of whom the first, as the most numerous and important, was the slowest, and had been overtaken by one of the others on the way up.
-- At the top of the steps, resisting Mrs Plornish's invitations to come and sit along with father in Happy Cottage which to his relief were not so numerous as they would have been on any other night than Saturday, when the connection who so gallantly supported the business with everything but money gave their orders freely at the top of the steps Mr Pancks remained until he beheld the Patriarch, who always entered the Yard at the other end, slowly advancing, beaming, and surrounded by suitors.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Demi, as the oldest grandchild, then presented the queen of the day with various gifts, so numerous that they were transported to the festive scene in a wheelbarrow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For besides the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which the success of the voyage most depends.
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