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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Couture; he had paid twelve hundred francs a year like a man to whom five louis more or less was a mere trifle.
-- At that time Goriot was paying twelve hundred francs a year to his landlady, and Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in real-ity, so distant as we had supposed.
-- If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized.
-- I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroesand eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
-- And as for poker, didn't Ashley take two hundred dollars awayfrom you just last week in Jonesboro?"
-- The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and theirneighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went offin the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and hishated troops with their orange cockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.
-- In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers,he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to visit the oldtowns westward from that city.
-- He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger'sdescription, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles inland from Savannah to the north and west, andnot many miles south of the Chattahoochee River.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Tell me directly what you've been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I'd have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
-- I calculated the consequences of replying "Four Hundred Pound," and finding them against me, went as near the answer as I could--which was somewhere about eightpence off.
-- Lord bless you, I have heard him, a hundred times, if I have heard him once, say to regular cracksmen in our front office, "You know where I live; now, no bolt is ever drawn there; why don't you do a stroke of business with me?
-- And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny.
-- Mr. Pip, there are about seven hundred thieves in this town who know all about that watch; there's not a man, a woman, or a child, among them, who wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, and drop it as if it was red hot, if inveigled into touching it."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and all with beautiful birds in them.
-- He walked nearer than a hundred paces to it, and yet he did not become fixed as before, but found that he could go quite close up to the door.
-- At last he came to the chamber where the fairy sat, with the seven hundred birds singing in the seven hundred cages.
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
-- Now that very day the hundred years were ended; and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beauti-ful flowering shrubs, through which he went with ease, and they shut in after him as thick as ever.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
-- He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides, on which above a hundred of the in-habitants mounted and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the king's orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me.
-- He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.
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