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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He added that the sum would have been left her all the same in his will, and that therefore she must not consider the gift as in any way an indemnification to her for anything, but that there was no reason, after all, why a man should not be allowed to entertain a natural desire to lighten his conscience, etc., etc.
-- 'You will receive, without the slightest trouble, by the last will and testament of your aunt, a very large sum of money indeed.'
-- The sum I now ask, added to what I have borrowed already, will make a total of about thirty-five roubles, so you see I shall have enough to pay him and confound him!if he wants interest, he shall have that, too!
-- I have resolved to give him ten thousand roubles; that is about the sum which I calculate that Pavlicheff must have spent on me.'
-- According to my calculations, the sum spent on me was very considerably under ten thousand roubles, but I decided on that sum, and you must admit that in paying a debt I could not offer Mr. Burdovsky more, however kindly disposed I might be towards him; delicacy forbids it; I should seem to be offering him charity instead of rightful payment.
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：
-- I'd send you a certain sum of money, and you could give it him gradually, as he needed it."
-- When the small sum of money which he brought with him from London came to an end he suffered from no dismay.
-- "I got a Jew in, and he gave me a round sum for the lot.
-- There was a strike at Marseilles at the time, and Strickland, having come to the end of his resources, had apparently found it impossible to earn the small sum he needed to keep body and soul together.
-- I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. MacAndrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strickland; and by the look of the house and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest comfort.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just so, Herbert," replied the engineer; "and when we have measured the two first distances, knowing the height of the pole, we shall only have a sum in proportion to do, which will give us the height of the cliff, and will save us the trouble of measuring it directly."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bless us, what a number of gentlemen on horseback there were riding up and down, and how few of them wanted their horses held!A good city speculator or a parliamentary commissioner could have told to a fraction, from the crowds that were cantering about, what sum of money was realised in London, in the course of a year, by holding horses alone.
-- said Kit, trying to maintain the gravity which the consideration of such a sum demanded, but grinning with delight in spite of himself.
-- It was with a trembling and reluctant hand, that the child held out to him the money which the lady had given her at the races for her flowers: faltering in her thanks as she thought how small the sum was, and blushing as she offered it.
-- Descending from the sublime when she had reached this point, to the details of common life, Mrs Jarley remarked that with reference to salary she could pledge herself to no specific sum until she had sufficiently tested Nell's abilities, and narrowly watched her in the performance of her duties.
-- CHAPTER 39All that day, though he waited for Mr Abel until evening, Kit kept clear of his mother's house, determined not to anticipate the pleasures of the morrow, but to let them come in their full rush of delight; for to-morrow was the great and long looked-for epoch in his life to-morrow was the end of his first quarter the day of receiving, for the first time, one fourth part of his annual income of Six Pounds in one vast sum of Thirty Shillings to-morrow was to be a half-holiday devoted to a whirl of entertainments, and little Jacob was to know what oysters meant, and to see a play.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was telling them of the remarkable turn given to the probable result of the case by the dexterity of a famous lawyer, by which an old lady, who was in the right, would be obliged to pay an enormous sum to the adverse side.
-- She asked for a sum of money in advance, and he refused.
-- That the servant of said Hotel Mauritania, Euphemia Bochkova, deposited in her name in the local Bank of Commerce the sum of eighteen hundred rubles.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice couldn't help smiling as she took out her memorandum-book, and worked the sum for him:3651____364___Humpty Dumpty took the book, and looked at it carefully.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.
-- On the 12th of June, 1745, for instance, a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone, and there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, Captain Farragut had spoken of a certain sum of two thousand dollars, set apart for whoever should first sight the monster, were he cabin-boy, common seaman, or officer.
-- Each one wished for a last glance in which to sum up his remembrance.
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