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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were brought by Paddy's sons, and Lord Glenarvan paid the sum stipulated for his various purchases, adding his cordial thanks, which the worthy Irishman valued at least as much as his golden guineas.
-- But what a sum to offer!He is not worth it!"
-- "Here is half of the passage-money, twenty-five pounds," said Mangles, counting out the sum to the master.
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：
-- 'I had no idea that so gigantic a sum was involved,' said he.
-- He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public mon-ey, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The subject matter of this conference was not disclosed in the parlour, but the kitchen was speedily enlightened concerning it; for Mr. Giles walked straight thither, and having called for a mug of ale, announced, with an air of majesty, which was highly effective, that it had pleased his mistress, in consideration of his gallant behaviour on the occasion of that attempted robbery, to deposit, in the local savings-bank, the sum of five-and-twenty pounds, for his sole use and benefit.
-- Mr. Bumble, who had not yet been admitted by his better half into any greater share of the secret than he had originally possessed, listened to this dialogue with outstretched neck and distended eyes: which he directed towards his wife and Monks, by turns, in undisguised astonishment; increased, if possible, when the latter sternly demanded, what sum was required for the disclosure.
-- 'Add five pounds to the sum you have named; give me five-and-twenty pounds in gold,' said the woman; 'and I'll tell you all I know.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when she read and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars im-mediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate.
-- A small sum could not do all this.'
-- 'Ten thousand pounds!Heaven forbid!How is half such a sum to be repaid?'
-- Chapter 50 r. Bennet had very often wished before this period of Mhis life that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me he could not tell exactly to what degree the planta-tion was improved; but this he knew, that my partner was grown exceeding rich upon the enjoying his part of it; and that, to the best of his remembrance, he had heard that the king's third of my part, which was, it seems, granted away to some other monastery or religious house, amounted to above two hundred moidores a year: that as to my being restored to a quiet possession of it, there was no question to be made of that, my partner being alive to witness my title, and my name being also enrolled in the register of the country; also he told me that the survivors of my two trust-ees were very fair, honest people, and very wealthy; and he believed I would not only have their assistance for putting me in possession, but would find a very considerable sum of money in their hands for my account, being the produce of the farm while their fathers held the trust, and before it was given up, as above; which, as he remembered, was for about twelve years.
-- to-bacco in roll, and sugar in chests, besides rum, molasses, &c., which is the consequence of a sugar-work; and I found by this account, that every year the income considerably in-creased; but, as above, the disbursements being large, the sum at first was small: however, the old man let me see that he was debtor to me four hundred and seventy moidores of gold, besides sixty chests of sugar and fifteen double rolls of tobacco, which were lost in his ship; he having been ship-wrecked coming home to Lisbon, about eleven years after my having the place.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement.
-- Three thousand pounds!he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience.
-- The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted with.
-- "Perhaps, then, it would be better for all parties, if the sum were diminished one half. Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!"
-- Depend upon it that whatever unemployed sum may remain, when I make up my accounts in the spring, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution, she was happy.
-- She had had no word from any quarter, she had spent a dollar of her precious sum in procuring food and paying car fare.
-- His condition was bitter in the extreme, for he did not want the miserable sum he had stolen.
-- That sum or any other could never compensate for the state which he had thus foolishly doffed.
-- The sum and substance of it was that there was no hope, and they wanted the money with the least trouble possible.
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