hundred是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 百, 一百; [pl.,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A hundred times had Martin obediently looked at the specimens in the brown, crackly-varnished bookcase: the beetles and chunks of mica; the embryo of a two-headed calf, the gallstones removed from a respectable lady whom the Doc enthusiastically named to all visitors.
-- His classes listened with zeal, and memorized the sacred hundred and fifty favorite prescriptions.
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
-- "I come from the most enterprising town--three hundred and sixty- two inhabitants--in the entire state of North Dakota--Wheatsylvania.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
-- Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
-- A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre: 'Buried how long?'
-- 'You might treble that, and say a hundred and fifty, yet not be far from the truth.'
-- 'One Hundred and Five, North Tower.'
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:
-- But so he did; for his name was renowned far and wide; and there were a hundred prin- cesses who would have answered, 'Yes!'
-- 'He will have a hundred kisses from the Princess!'
-- 'A hundred kisses from the Princess,' said he, 'or else let everyone keep his own!'
-- Oh, far happier were I, could I exchange with him my being with his desires and with his hopes perform the weary pilgrimage of life!Oh, he is a hundred times happier than I!'
-- We peeped through the windows, and saw them planted in the middle of the warm room and ornamented with the most splendid things, with gilded apples, with gingerbread, with toys, and many hundred lights!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if Karenin had not got his brother- in-law this berth, then through a hundred other personages-- brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, and aunts--Stiva Oblonsky would have received this post, or some other similar one, together with the salary of six thousand absolutely needful for them, as his affairs, in spite of his wife's considerable property, were in an embarrassed condition.
-- "You gave my assistant two hundred roubles.
-- he asked, when they had driven a few hundred yards.
-- He's a hero, in fact," said Anna, smiling and recollecting the two hundred roubles he had given at the station.
-- But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred roubles.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEARPhileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.
-- The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
-- "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
-- The Fogg party dwindled more and more, everybody was going against him, and the bets stood a hundred and fifty and two hundred to one; and a week after his departure an incident occurred which deprived him of backers at any price.
-- IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCEThe circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.
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