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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have about that sum here for household expenses.
-- Twenty pounds having been secured from Bathsheba, he had managed to add to the sum every farthing he could muster on his own account, which had been seven pounds ten.
-- "That sum to include everything?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
-- I have not been gambling, my kind mother, I owe no one a penny; but if you would preserve the life that you gave me, you must send me the sum I mention.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a consider-able sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
-- Taking with her some jewels that belonged to her and a sum of money, she quitted Italy with an atten-dant, a native of Leghorn, but who understood the common language of Turkey, and departed for Germany.
-- I provided myself with a sum of money, together with a few jewels which had belonged to my mother, and departed.
-- But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his own small stake, what he could borrow from his unenthusiastic brothers and a neat sum from mortgagingthe land, Gerald bought his first field hands and came to Tara to live in bachelor solitude in the four-room overseer'shouse, till such a time as the white walls of Tara should rise.
-- A sudden hush fell on the crowd both at the mention of the sum and at the name.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way, in a strange place, on an empty stomach!I was hungry, but before I had swallowed a morsel, he began a running sum that lasted all through the breakfast.
-- I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
-- There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance.
-- And a very handsome sum of money too, I think.
-- "You consider it, undoubtedly, a handsome sum of money.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When therefore he went out, all four of them con-fessed to him that they had stolen the money, and said that they would willingly restore it and give him a heavy sum 311into the bargain, if he would not denounce them, for if he did they would be hanged.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
-- Whoever can there bring suf-ficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his 66 Gulliver's Travelscountry for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or le-gal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.
-- As to persons of quality, they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry and the most exact justice.
-- He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores; but allowing for the proportion of all things be-tween that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guin-eas would be in England.
-- This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and hesitation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in one of the many small streets for which the favourite undertaker (who turned a handsome sum out of the one poor ghastly pomp of the neighbourhood) kept a black ladder, in order that those who had done their daily groping up and down the narrow stairs might slide out of this working world by the windows.
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