sum是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 总数， 和； 金额； 算术题； 要旨v. 合计， 总计，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky's presence.
-- Alexey had said at the time to his brother that that sum would be sufficient for him until he married, which he probably never would do.
-- A few weeks before, Konstantin Levin had written to his brother that through the sale of the small part of the property, that had remained undivided, there was a sum of about two thousand roubles to come to him as his share.
-- The old prince sat in silence, his bright little eyes watching Karenin from one side, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw that he had already formed a phrase to sum up that politician of whom guests were invited to partake as though he were a sturgeon.
-- The word talent, by which they meant an inborn, almost physical, aptitude apart from brain and heart, and in which they tried to find an expression for all the artist had gained from life, recurred particularly often in their talk, as though it were necessary for them to sum up what they had no conception of, though they wanted to talk of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- on the sum that might be recovered.
-- "No doubt, for he is carrying an enormous sum in brand new banknotes with him.
-- The hasty departure from London soon after the robbery; the large sum carried by Mr. Fogg; his eagerness to reach distant countries; the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet all confirmed Fix in his theory.
-- Mr. Fogg persisted, offering the excessive sum of ten pounds an hour for the loan of the beast to Allahabad.
-- Knowing that the English authorities dealt very severely with this kind of misdemeanour, he promised them a goodly sum in damages, and sent them forward to Calcutta by the next train.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole of Clif was more than the sum of his various parts.
-- Gosh, it's fierce I had to miss the select pleasures of an evening with Anxious Duer and associated highboys, and merely play a low game of poker--in which Father deftly removed the sum of six simolea, point ten, from the fore-gathered bums and yahoos.
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：
-- This sum (now I can explain it all to you, my precious Rodya) she took chiefly in order to send you sixty roubles, which you needed so terribly then and which you received from us last year.
-- 'That's just the point, that at the present moment,' Ras-kolnikov tried his utmost to feign embarrassment, 'I am not quite in funds 芒聙娄 and even this trifling sum is beyond me 芒聙娄 I only wanted, you see, for the present to declare that the things are mine, and that when I have money芒聙娄.'
-- 'It was my own doing, not leaving the country, and nearly a year ago Marfa Petrovna gave me back the document on my name- day and made me a present of a considerable sum of money, too.
-- If I died, for instance, and left that sum to your sister in my will, surely she wouldn't refuse it?'
-- 'Very well, then, keep it in mind; and now will you ac-cept for the benefit of your relation the small sum that I am able to spare, from me personally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a Saturday night, which was my grandtreat,- partly because it was a great thing to walk home with six orseven shillings in my pocket, looking into the shops and thinkingwhat such a sum would buy, and partly because I went homeearly,- Mrs. Micawber would make the most heart-rendingconfidences to me; also on a Sunday morning, when I mixed theportion of tea or coffee I had bought overnight, in a little shaving-pot, and sat late at my breakfast.
-- I never couldhave derived anything like the pleasure from spending the moneyMr. Dick had given me, that I felt in sending a gold half-guinea toPeggotty, per post, inclosed in this last letter, to discharge the sum Ihad borrowed of her: in which epistle, not before, I mentionedabout the young man with the donkey-cart.
-- It is for that reason especially, that I think Mr. Micawber ought (as Ihave already said, in justice to himself, in justice to his family, andin justice to society) to raise a certain sum of money- on a bill.'
-- 'If any drop of gloom were wanting in the overflowing cup, whichis now "commended" (in the language of an immortal Writer) tothe lips of the undersigned, it would be found in the fact, that afriendly acceptance granted to the undersigned, by the before-mentioned Mr. Thomas Traddles, for the sum of L23, 4s./2d.
-- Also, in the fact, that the livingresponsibilities clinging to the undersigned, will, in the course ofnature, be increased by the sum of one more helpless victim; whosemiserable appearance may be looked for- in round numbers- at theexpiration of a period not exceeding six lunar months from thepresent date.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ten and twopence halfpenny is the sum put down to you, I see?"
-- "I'll pay you well now, I'll settle a sum of money upon her, and I'll see that you don't suffer from poverty in the future.
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