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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glancing round as I made a suitable reply, I observed that thefamily effects were already packed, and that the amount of luggagewas by no means overwhelming.
-- The amount of the first obligation,' here Mr. Micawber carefullyreferred to papers, 'was, I believe, twenty-three, four, nine, and ahalf, of the second, according to my entry of that transaction,eighteen, six, two.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the amount of the whole story, of his commu-nication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech. He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself.
-- Seven miles were travelled in expectation of enjoyment, and every body had a burst of admiration on first arriving; but in the general amount of the day there was deficiency.
-- 'Ah!madam,' cried Emma, 'if other children are at all like what I remember to have been myself, I should think five times the amount of what I have ever yet heard named as a salary on such occasions, dearly earned.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When expressed with some amount of reflectiveness it seems co-ordinate with a belief that this flattery must be reasonable to be effective.
-- Mechanism only transfers labour, being powerless to supersede it, and the original amount of exertion was not cleared away; it was thrown into the body and arms.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She expended no small amount of ingenuity in a sort of weeding process of her lodgers, announcing her intention of receiving henceforward none but people who were in every way select.
-- It was easy, of course, to find out whether Goriot had really been a vermicelli manufacturer; the amount of his fortune was readily discoverable; but the old people, who were most inquisitive as to his concerns, never went beyond the limits of the Quarter, and lived in the lodging-house much as oysters cling to a rock.
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
-- "You continue to receive, possibly you fear, those who know the amount of pain that they deliberately inflict; but a clumsy blunderer who has no idea how deeply he wounds is looked upon as a fool who does not know how to make use of his opportunities, and every one despises him."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when Scarlettdiscovered him jumping fences after his solemn promise to his wife, or learned the exact amount of his losses at poker,as she always did from County gossip, she refrained from mentioning the fact at the supper table in the artfully artlessmanner Suellen had.
-- Plantations don't amount to anything when " She was going to say "when you haven't the man you want," but Gerald, incensed by the cavalier way in whichshe treated his proffered gift, the thing which, next to Ellen, he loved best in the whole world uttered a roar.
-- "Do you stand there, Scarlett O'Hara, and tell me that Tara that land doesn't amount to anything?"
-- At first, Mrs. Merriwether had stated flatly and loudly that her Maybelle would never take part In such aproceeding; but as Maybelle's name was called most often and the amount went up to seventy-five dollars, her protestsbegan to dwindle.
-- When daring young ladies, hoping for a flirtation, thanked him for being one of the heroeswho fought for them, he bowed and declared that such was not the case, for he would do the same thing for Yankeewomen if the same amount of money were involved.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul--still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of the poetry.
-- I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming.
-- I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.
-- Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by Trabb's boy, when passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants, "Don't know yah, don't know yah, 'pon my soul don't know yah!"
-- And afterwards we would fall into a dead silence, and I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 170 Gulliver's Travels They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, which is reckoned the largest, does not amount to above a thousand volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to borrow what books I pleased.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have not acquired, under Mr. and Mrs. M'Choakumchild, anything like that amount of exact knowledge which I looked for.
-- He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.
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