mostly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 几乎全部地； 主要地， 大部分， 基本上，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That is the one that is most respected by the waves, and the one on which our interpretations have been mostly founded."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the prince's arrival she had spent some time on the terrace, listening eagerly to the conversation, though the visitors, mostly under the influence of wine, were discuss-ing abstract subjects far beyond her comprehension.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so on for another long series, mostly quite incom-prehensible gibberish to me about Him, whoever he might be.
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's mostly merchants who buy them, and rich tradesmen.
-- Some of them sold for as much as ten francs, but mostly they went for five or six.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, that square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee the Fifth is mostly water the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty But you make no remark?'
-- Now here, we mostly have days and nights two or three at a time, and sometimes in the winter we take as many as five nights together for warmth, you know.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mostly he would not speak when spoken to, only look up sudden and fierce and blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about our house soon learned to let him be.
-- For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
-- One was the same as the tattoo mark, "Billy Bones his fancy"; then there was "Mr. W. Bones, mate," "No more rum," "Off Palm Key he got itt," and some other snatches, mostly single words and unintelligible.
-- The customers were mostly seafaring men, and they talked so loudly that I hung at the door, almost afraid to enter.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.
-- Her father was mostly absent, abroad, she was either alone in the house, with her visitors, of whom there were always several, or she had with her her brother, a bachelor, and a Liberal member of Parliament.
-- Ursula and Gudrun, both very unused, were mostly silent, listening to the slow, rhapsodic sing-song of Hermione, or the verbal sallies of Sir Joshua, or the prattle of Fr脙陇ulein, or the responses of the other two women.
-- A servant came, and soon reappeared with armfuls of silk robes and shawls and scarves, mostly oriental, things that Hermione, with her love for beautiful extravagant dress, had collected gradually.
-- The shops were blazing and packed with women, in the streets were men, mostly men, miners of all ages.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some authorities think different, but mostly it's considered best to kill them except some that you bring to the cave here, and keep them till they're ransomed.'
-- I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.
-- Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thiev-ing, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and ' Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old lim-ber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language mostly hove at the nigger and the gov- ment, though he give the tub some, too, all along, here and there.
-- I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them.
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