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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was fain to take up the note again, and to substitute the much smaller sum he had named.
-- Tom has borrowed a considerable sum of you?'
-- Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
-- 'That sum of money, young Tom locked in his safe, not a very strong safe, but that's no matter now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worthy couple cheated and robbed us like a Swiss innkeeper, and made us feel, by the sum we had to pay, the splendors of their hospitality.
-- The boxes which contained our supply of food for the voyage were placed in a row along the strand, and were in a capital state of preservation; the sea had in every case respected their contents, and to sum up in one sentence, taking into consideration, biscuits, salt meat, Schiedam and dried fish, we could still calculate on having about four months' supply, if used with prudence and caution.
-- Wonderful!My uncle enjoyed during his lifetime all the glory he deserved; and he was even offered a large sum of money, by Mr. Barnum, to exhibit himself in the United States; while I am credibly informed by a traveler that he is to be seen in waxwork at Madame Tussaud's!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern!One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably I may say like lovers on a height overhanging the sea.
-- One afternoon he had been doing the honours of the place to a rather large party of collegians, who happened to be going out, when, as he was coming back, he encountered one from the poor side who had been taken in execution for a small sum a week before, had 'settled' in the course of that afternoon, and was going out too.
-- 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.
-- That from the father mentioned that most unexpectedly finding himself in the novel position of having been disappointed of a remittance from the City on which he had confidently counted, he took up his pen, being restrained by the unhappy circumstance of his incarceration during three-and-twenty years (doubly underlined), from coming himself, as he would otherwise certainly have done took up his pen to entreat Mr Clennam to advance him the sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings upon his I.O.U., which he begged to enclose.
-- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a quarter before six that evening raise the sum of eight pounds.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned Amy, washing out the sum that was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate.
-- Tearing off the blank side of one of her newly copied pages, Jo drew the table before her mother, well knowing that money for the long, sad journey must be borrowed, and feeling as if she could do anything to add to a little to the sum for her father.
-- Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would have given more real happi-ness then did the little sum that came to her in this wise.
-- The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.
-- But the trifles cost more than one would imagine, and when she cast up her accounts at the end of the month the sum total rather scared her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But perhaps the mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as Ledyard did, or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo's performances this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish.
-- 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.
-- He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
-- The sum is, that at particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating whales may with great confidence be looked for.
-- To sum up, then: in the Right Whale's there is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
-- It would be tedious if given in the beadle's words: occupying, as it did, some twenty minutes in the telling; but the sum and substance of it was, that Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents.
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