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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Things had been handsomely done for the deceased chief; the amount of provisions denoted their esteem for the departed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt that from all I had heard I should be offered at least the 275th lay that is, the 275th part of the clear net proceeds of the voyage, whatever that might eventually amount to.
-- As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.
-- In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
-- This particular tongue now before us; at a passing glance I should say it was a six-barreler; that is, it will yield you about that amount of oil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, to do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be at tained, will justify; the amount of the right, or the amount of the wrong, or indeed the distinction between the two, being left entirely to the philosopher concerned, to be settled and determined by his clear, comprehensive, and impartial view of his own particular case.
-- and divers calculations as to what might be the amount of the odds so long as a lady or gentleman was happy, Mr. Fagin, who had had considerable experience of such matters in his time, saw, with great satisfaction, that she was very far gone indeed.
-- Now, Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry having gone out to tea and supper: and Noah Claypole not being at any time disposed to take upon himself a greater amount of physical exertion than is necessary to a convenient performance of the two functions of eating and drinking, the shop was not closed, although it was past the usual hour of shutting-up.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had in-tended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There being at that time great dis-bursements for increasing the works, building an ingenio, and buying slaves, it did not amount to near so much as afterwards it produced; however,' says the old man, 'I shall give you a true account of what I have received in all, and how I have disposed of it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What is the amount of his fortune?"
-- To give you another instance of her liberality: The other day, as soon as we came to town, aware that money could not be very plenty with us just now, she put bank-notes into Fanny's hands to the amount of two hundred pounds.
-- Will you be so good as to tell him that the living of Delaford, now just vacant, as I am informed by this day's post, is his, if he think it worth his acceptance but THAT, perhaps, so unfortunately circumstanced as he is now, it may be nonsense to appear to doubt; I only wish it were more valuable. It is a rectory, but a small one; the late incumbent, I believe, did not make more than 200 L per annum, and though it is certainly capable of improvement, I fear, not to such an amount as to afford him a very comfortable income.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would not have given the same amount to a poor young man, but we must not forget that a poor young man could not, in the nature of things, have appealed to him like a poor young girl.
-- Now, however, in her seventeenth year, Jessica had developed a certain amount of reserve and independence which was not inviting to the richest form of parental devotion.
-- "Her family doesn't amount to anything, does it?"
-- There was no disputing that, whatever he might think of him as a good fellow, he felt a certain amount of contempt for him as a lover.
-- In the past he had always commanded a certain amount of respect, which was a compound of appreciation and awe.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with.
-- They can't bile that amount of water away off there at the sea.
-- I am Peter Wilks' brother Harvey, and this is his brother Wil-liam, which can't hear nor speak and can't even make signs to amount to much, now't he's only got one hand to work them with.
-- In them circum- stances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable.
-- I didn't mind the lickings, because they didn't amount to nothing; but I minded the trouble we had to lay in another lot.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides this, he was able to save the great amount of fifty pennies.
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