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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.'
-- My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was clearly aghast at the largeness of the sum, and thought a far smaller amount should have been tried first.
-- He only want-ed one thing, and that was to get to Nastasia Philipovna's, even at the cost of a certain amount of impropriety.
-- There used to be a certain amount of solidity in all things, but now what happens?
-- My salary will amount to seventy-five roubles in three months.
-- But this evening he did nearly all the talking himself, and told stories by the dozen, while he answered all questions put to him clearly, gladly, and with any amount of detail.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet what does it amount to!After the water has been suffered so to have its will, for a time, like a headstrong man, it is gathered together by the hand that made it, and a few rods below you may see it all, flowing on steadily toward the sea, as was foreordained from the first foundation of the 'arth!'
-- The whole amount is this; there is a fort of his majesty's on the banks of the Hudson, called Edward, in honor of his gracious highness of York, you'll know; and it is well filled with armed men, as such a work should be.'
-- At length, the for-mer spoke: 'You'll know, already, Major Heyward, that my family was both ancient and honorable,' commenced the Scots-man; 'though it might not altogether be endowed with that amount of wealth that should correspond with its degree.
-- They were all aged, even beyond that period to which the oldest present had reached; but one in the center, who leaned on his companions for support, had numbered an amount of years to which the human race is seldom permitted to at-tain.
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 affords you then an inordinate amount of self-esteem.
-- His fellow-painters made no secret of their contempt for his work, but he earned a fair amount of money, and they did not hesitate to make free use of his purse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hold to this last hypothesis, grounding it on the fact that the moon is really a cold star, which is no longer habitable, although the sun continues to throw on its surface the same amount of heat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the plain question is, an't it a pity that this state of things should continue, and how much better would it be for the gentleman to hand over a reasonable amount of tin, and make it all right and comfortable?'
-- With this demand, however, the eating-house (having experience of its customer) declined to comply, churlishly sending back for answer that if Mr Swiveller stood in need of beef perhaps he would be so obliging as to come there and eat it, bringing with him, as grace before meat, the amount of a certain small account which had long been outstanding.
-- He also acquainted them with the precise amount of the income guaranteed by the Duke of Thigsberry to Violetta Stetta of the Italian Opera, which it appeared was payable quarterly, and not half-yearly, as the public had been given to understand, and which was exclusive, and not inclusive (as had been monstrously stated,) of jewellery, perfumery, hair-powder for five footmen, and two daily changes of kid-gloves for a page.
-- It was not badly named in one respect, being in truth a particularly little Bethel a Bethel of the smallest dimensions with a small number of small pews, and a small pulpit, in which a small gentleman (by trade a Shoemaker, and by calling a Divine) was delivering in a by no means small voice, a by no means small sermon, judging of its dimensions by the condition of his audience, which, if their gross amount were but small, comprised a still smaller number of hearers, as the majority were slumbering.
-- I'd give him his revenge to the last farthing he brought, whatever the amount was.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This explanation was confirmed by the large amount of money Nekhludoff had distributed while he remained in Panov.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of genuine, if uncivil, amusement.
-- In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrangements, and so forth.
-- I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end !Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
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