much是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 多的， 大量的ad. 十分， 非常； 到极大程度，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
-- 'Much good may it do you!Much good it has ever done you!'
-- The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door.
-- Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then.
-- But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear indoors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- The pace was suddenly checked, and, with much splash-ing and floundering, a man's voice called from the mist, 'Is that the Dover mail?'
-- Much of that wouldn't do for you, Jerry!I say, Jerry!You'd be in a Blazing bad way, if recalling to life was to come into fashion, Jerry!'
-- He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration, being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart.
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：
-- 'We shall be much obliged to you,' said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.
-- However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much ap-parent diligence as before at their empty looms.
-- 'How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,' said an old knight.
-- As soon as he had got into the court-yard, he moved very softly, and the ladies were so much engrossed with count-ing the kisses, that all might go on fairly, that they did not perceive the Emperor.
-- At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at this recollection, Stepan Arkadyevitch, as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words.
-- Anything I can do, I am ready to do anything!I am to blame, no words can express how much I am to blame!But, Dolly, forgive me!"
-- He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
-- "I have just come, and very much wanted to see you," said Levin, looking shyly and at the same time angry and uneasily around.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.
-- Madame Tussaud's "people," let it be said, are of wax, and are much visited in London; speech is all that is wanting to make them human.
-- Meanwhile, the cashier had not so much as raised his head.
-- As for his antagonists, they seemed much agitated; not so much by the value of their stake, as because they had some scruples about betting under conditions so difficult to their friend.
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