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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether forgive my plainness whether any great amount of confidence is likely to have been established between himself and his most worthy father.'
-- Cursing these quick retorts of the young gentleman to whom he was so true a friend, Mr. Harthouse disembarrassed himself of that interview with the smallest conceivable amount of ceremony, and debated for the hundredth time what all this could mean?
-- Regarded as a classical ruin, Mrs. Sparsit was an interesting spectacle on her arrival at her journey's end; but considered in any other light, the amount of damage she had by that time sustained was excessive, and impaired her claims to admiration.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- Out of three rooms of which his house was composed, two were placed at our service, and in a few hours we were installed with all our baggage, the amount of which rather astonished the simple inhabitants of Reykjavik.
-- cried my uncle; "it appears to me a collection of useless odd volumes, and a beggarly amount of empty shelves."
-- That day and the next we did a considerable amount of horizontal, and relatively very little vertical, traveling.
-- "A considerable amount of pressure."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hilda, however, sud-denly married a man ten years older than herself, an elder member of the same Cambridge group, a man with a fair amount of money, and a comfortable family job in the gov-ernment: he also wrote philosophical essays.
-- 'You've got to have a certain amount of it to be able to live and get along...even to be free to THINK you must have a certain amount of money, or your stomach stops you.
-- She preferred the lesser amount which she helped Clifford to make by his writing.
-- Mrs Bolton was most attentive and polite, seemed quite nice, spoke with a bit of a broad slur, but in heavily correct English, and from having bossed the sick colliers for a good many years, had a very good opinion of herself, and a fair amount of assurance.
-- Connie calculated the amount of strength it must have taken to heave up that chair and the bulky Clifford: too much, far too much!If it hadn't killed him!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had fully convinced himself, notwithstanding, that his own proper share of the Fund was three and ninepence a week; and that in this amount he, as an individual collegian, was swindled by the marshal, regularly every Monday.
-- Indeed, she was so proud of the acquaintance, that she had awakened some bitterness of spirit in the Yard by magnifying to an enormous amount the sum for which Miss Dorrit's father had become insolvent.
-- 'Do you happen to know, Mrs Clennam,' Affery's liege lord then demanded in a much lower voice, and with an amount of expression that seemed quite out of proportion to the simple purpose of his words, 'where she lives?'
-- But his good friend had a weakness which none of us need go into the next street to find, and which no amount of Circumlocution experience could long subdue in him.
-- Between them they agreed upon the sum it would be fair to offer for the purchase of a half-share in the business, and then Mr Meagles unsealed a paper in which Daniel Doyce had noted the amount at which he valued it; which was even something less.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tea parties didn't amount to much neither did picnics unless very well conducted.
-- 'Nothing but a story, won't amount to much, I guess,' re-turned Jo, carefully keeping the name of the paper out of sight.
-- Your sincere friend and servant, JAMES LAURENCECHAPTER SEVENTEENFor a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood.
-- 'That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so.
-- I owe it all to you and Mother and Beth,' said Jo, more touched by her father's words than by any amount of praise from the world.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?
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