majority是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 多数; 多得票数, 法定年龄，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the lookers-on there was the same expression in all quarters of the court; insomuch, that a great majority of the foreheads there, might have been mirrors reflecting the witness, when the Judge looked up from his notes to glare at that tremendous heresy about George Washington.
-- The great majority were silent and still, looking fixedly at the ground.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them--or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.
-- His ideas of marriage were, consequently, quite unlike those of the great majority of his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life.
-- The majority of the younger men envied him for just what was the most irksome factor in his love--the exalted position of Karenin, and the consequent publicity of their connection in society.
-- He saw that Russia has splendid land, splendid laborers, and that in certain cases, as at the peasant's on the way to Sviazhsky's, the produce raised by the laborers and the land is great--in the majority of cases when capital is applied in the European way the produce is small, and that this simply arises from the fact that the laborers want to work and work well only in their own peculiar way, and that this antagonism is not incidental but invariable, and has its roots in the national spirit.
-- Levin found himself, like the majority of his contemporaries, in the vaguest position in regard to religion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large majority shook their heads and declared against him; it was absurd, impossible, they declared, that the tour of the world could be made, except theoretically and on paper, in this minimum of time, and with the existing means of travelling.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He urged, "This pep and heartiness stuff of Pickerbaugh's is exactly the thing to get across to the majority of people the scientific discoveries of the Max Gottliebs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, a large majority of the boys(especially the smaller ones) were visited with similar instances ofnotice, as Mr. Creakle made the round of the schoolroom.
-- By and by, I sawhim, with the majority of a lobster on his plate, eating his dinner atthe feet of Dora!
-- Indeed I may be superstitious,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'but it appearsto me that Mr. Micawber is destined never to receive any answerswhatever to the great majority of the communications he writes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The majority again sat down.
-- The majority of the afflicted animals were lying down, and could not be stirred.
-- With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
-- It has been observed in the musical circles of Weatherbury and its vicinity that this melody, at the end of three-quarters of an hour of thunderous footing, still possesses more stimulative properties for the heel and toe than the majority of other dances at their first opening.
-- She had never taken kindly to the idea of marriage in the abstract as did the majority of women she saw about her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general came into the same opin-ion; so that for a long time there was a majority against you; but his majesty resolving, if possible, to spare your life, at last brought off the chamberlain.
-- That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal, preserve themselves in power, by bribing the majority of a senate or great council; and at last, by an expedient, called an act of indemnity' (whereof I described the nature to him), 'they secure themselves from after-reckonings, and retire from the public laden with the spoils of the nation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My worthy uncle, Professor Hardwigg, in concert with the great majority of geologists, had held firm, had disputed, discussed, and finally, after considerable talking and writing, M. Elie de Beaumont had been pretty well left alone in his opinions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Dorrit, whose hand this Maggy, still calling her little mother, had begun to fondle, answered in words (they were under a gateway into which the majority of the potatoes had rolled).
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the harpooneer that has caused them.
-- The unflinching earnestness with which he declared these things; the dark, daring play of his sleepless, excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness.
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