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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So much we know from what was heard at the time and from what was subsequently seen in the room.
-- It is so much easier not to believe in an invisible man; and those who had actually seen him dissolve into air, or felt the strength of his arm, could be counted on the fingers of two hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about lat-itude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months.
-- You know the kind of man, calls the thing the 'Ipecacuanha,' of all silly, infer-nal names; though when there's much of a sea without any wind, she certainly acts according.'
-- The growling overhead was renewed, so suddenly and with so much savage anger that it startled me.
-- I do not think I have ever heard quite so much vile language come in a continuous stream from any man's lips before, though I have frequented eccentric company enough.
-- You had the need, and I had the knowl-edge; and I injected and fed you much as I might have collected a specimen.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely: 'Shere Khan speaks this much truth.
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- The big, seri-ous, old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil, for the young wolves will only learn as much of the Law of the Jungle as applies to their own pack and tribe, and run away as soon as they can repeat the Hunting Verse 'Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all these things are the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui the Jackal and the Hyaena whom we hate.'
-- All this will show you how much Mowgli had to learn by heart, and he grew very tired of saying the same thing over a hundred times.
-- Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mow-gli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Still there is so much obscu-rity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- He is much addicted to overestimating his own perfections, and to undervaluing those of his rival or his enemy; a trait which may possibly be thought corroborative of the Mosaic account of the cre-ation.
-- But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
-- Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers.
-- he had much ado to maintain his seat; sometimes slipping on one side, sometimes on an-other, and sometimes jolted on the high ridge of his horse's backbone, with a violence that he verily feared would cleave him asunder.
-- As to the books and furniture of the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, a New England Almanac, and book of dreams and fortune-telling; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless at-tempts to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
-- The mysterious event caused much speculation at the church on the following Sunday.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
-- It is obvious that there was much in the commonly received account of Strickland's life to embarrass a respectable family.
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