pair是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一对， 一双； 一副； 夫妇v. 配对， 成对，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：
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs.'
-- If I got a little pair of shoes by any chance, she would take 'em off and sell 'em for drink.
-- Last of all appeared Mr. Sleary: a stout man as already mentioned, with one fixed eye, and one loose eye, a voice (if it can be called so) like the efforts of a broken old pair of bellows, a flabby surface, and a muddled head which was never sober and never drunk.
-- She turned, being then in the brightness of a lamp; and raising her hood a little, showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes, and further set off by the perfect order of her shining black hair.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well he's sixty-five, if he's a day, yet you'd have thought they were a pair of young turtle-doves, to see them, arm in arm, and kissing at the gate: yes, an' she sitting on his knee right in the bay window on Pye Croft Road, for anybody to see.
-- He had pulled off his boots, and put on a pair of slippers.
-- The world is all alike: kill off the human reality, a quid for every foreskin, two quid for each pair of balls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On her little table lay two or three books, her handkerchief, a pair of steel spectacles newly taken off, and an old-fashioned gold watch in a heavy double case.
-- A delicately bent head, a tiny form, a quick little pair of busy hands, and a shabby dress it must needs have been very shabby to look at all so, being so neat were Little Dorrit as she sat at work.
-- In what had once been a drawing-room, there were a pair of meagre mirrors, with dismal processions of black figures carrying black garlands, walking round the frames; but even these were short of heads and legs, and one undertaker-like Cupid had swung round on its own axis and got upside down, and another had fallen off altogether.
-- He had a large watch-chain and bunch of seals, a coat buttoned up to inconvenience, a waistcoat buttoned up to inconvenience, an unwrinkled pair of trousers, a stiff pair of boots.
-- He had a long wide-skirted bottle-green coat on, and a bottle-green pair of trousers, and a bottle-green waistcoat.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.
-- Everyone thought soberly for a minute, then Meg an-nounced, as if the idea was suggested by the sight of her own pretty hands, 'I shall give her a nice pair of gloves.'
-- No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts to her heart's content and took immense satisfaction in a pair of russet leather boots given her by a friend, who knew a lady who knew an actor.
-- The latter informs the party that she bequeths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy.
-- Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, he emerged with his hat very much dented and crushed down over his eyes, and began creaking and limping about the room, as if, not being much accustomed to boots, his pair of damp, wrinkled cowhide ones probably not made to order either rather pinched and tormented him at the first go off of a bitter cold morning.
-- The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
-- A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port; tombstones staring at me in the whalemen's chapel; and here a gallows!and a pair of prodigious black pots too!Are these last throwing out oblique hints touching Tophet?
-- "I should like to see him try it; I'd give him such a pair of black eyes that he wouldn't dare to show his face in the admiral's cabin again for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he lives, and hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much.
-- The carcases of both whales had dropped astern; and the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair of overburdening panniers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind a desk, sat two old gentleman with powdered heads: one of whom was reading the newspaper; while the other was perusing, with the aid of a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles, a small piece of parchment which lay before him.
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