amount是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 等于, 总数, 数量，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：
-- In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Knowing perfectly well beforehand that the matter would never come to real danger, it would amount to my simply trying to gain a certain sham reputation by such a challenge.
-- His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
-- Writing out on note paper in his minute hand all that he owed, he added up the amount and found that his debts amounted to seventeen thousand and some odd hundreds, which he left out for the sake of clearness.
-- Vronsky had wanted to pay the money at the time (he had that amount then), but Venovsky and Yashvin had insisted that they would pay and not Vronsky, who had not played.
-- It seemed to him that in a normal development of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us only done harm, by throwing into the background the chief question calling for settlement--the question of the organization of agriculture.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The package of notes not being found when five o'clock sounded from the ponderous clock in the "drawing office," the amount was passed to the account of profit and loss.
-- Whether the young woman were married or not, he would be able to create such difficulties for Mr. Fogg at Hong Kong that he could not escape by paying any amount of money.
-- Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict humanity!The Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.
-- You went into his service the day he came away; and he came away on a foolish pretext, without trunks, and carrying a large amount in banknotes.
-- There only remained of his fortune the twenty thousand pounds deposited at Barings, and this amount he owed to his friends of the Reform Club.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For don't forget, gentlemen, and this is my last message to you, the man worth while is not merely the man who takes things with a smile but also the man who's trained in philosophy, PRACTICAL philosophy, so that instead of day-dreaming and spending all his time talking about 'ethics,' splendid though they are, and 'charity,' glorious virtue though that be, yet he never forgets that unfortunately the world judges a man by the amount of good hard cash he can lay away.
-- In fact I make it a regular practice to set aside a period for scientific research, without a certain amount of which even the most ardent crusade for health methods would scarcely make much headway."
-- And the amount of good you can do!Why, I got across more Health Instruction and ideas about the value of the lab in that three-quarters of an hour than-- I don't care for being a big gun but it's fine to have people where they have to listen to what you've got to say and can't butt in, way they did in Wheatsylvania.
-- He paid, in fact, an enormous price for looking at Orchid's lips, and no amount of anxiety about the price kept him from looking at them.
-- Mayor Pugh called him in and chuckled: "Doc, there's been a certain amount of opposition to you, because you're pretty young and not many folks know you.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the first glance it was apparent that he had had a great deal to drink and, though no amount of liquor made Razumihin quite drunk, this time he was perceptibly affected by it.
-- But, nevertheless, it was clear to him again that with her character and the amount of education she had after all re-ceived, she could not in any case remain so.
-- And after all, what does it amount to?
-- I heard so yesterday 芒聙娄 so that's what your convictions amount to 芒聙娄 and the woman question, too, wasn't quite sound, he-he-he!'
-- 'An idea struck you, you didn't think, you noticed' what does it amount to?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Clara,' he continued, looking at my mother, 'you surprise me!Youastound me!Yes, I had a satisfaction in the thought of marrying aninexperienced and artless person, and forming her character, andinfusing into it some amount of that firmness and decision ofwhich it stood in need.
-- I felt the utmost sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Micawber in thisanxious extremity, and said as much to Mr. Micawber, who nowreturned; adding that I only wished I had money enough, to lend 248them the amount they needed.
-- But all of my ownsex- especially one impostor, three or four years my elder, with ared whisker, on which he established an amount of presumptionnot to be endured- were my mortal foes.
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