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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have much the best of the bargain.
-- 21 Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again; and he took Jorinda home, where they were married, and lived happily togeth-er many years: and so did a good many other lads, whose maidens had been forced to sing in the old fairy's cages by themselves, much longer than they liked.
-- The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the robbers had left, with as much eager-ness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of read-ers.
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation toyourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.
-- I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.
-- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus (and much more) Bitzer.
-- Mr. Gradgrind was much obliged.
-- If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!
-- A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him.
-- He had not much hair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being very much attached to his fatherless nephew, he invited me to study under him in his home in the fatherland.
-- In connection with the sciences there are many almost unpronounceable names--names very much resembling those of Welsh villages; and my uncle being very fond of using them, his habit of stammering was not thereby improved.
-- So much indeed did it resemble that useful article, that a compass was said in his presence to have made considerable N (Nasal) deviation.
-- Now as I had a strong conviction that the Runic alphabet and dialect were simply an invention to mystify poor human nature, I was delighted to find that my uncle knew as much about the matter as I did--which was nothing.
-- After taking so much trouble, to find her master not appear at dinner was to her a sad disappointment--which, as she occasionally watched the havoc I was making on the viands, became also alarm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feel-ings had gone.
-- The girls were doubtful, but then the thing was so much talked about, it was supposed to be so important.
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
-- She was so much more mistress of herself in that outer world of chaos than he was master of himself.
-- Too much death and horror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was waiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation.
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