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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Those who dealt that blow," said he, "were already well used to this little instrument"; and so saying he produced a pair of "darbies," a kind of handcuff made of a double ring of iron secured by a lock.
-- Robert, searching like a ferret, came upon a nest made of interwoven roots, and in it a pair of birds destitute of wings and tail, with four toes, a long snipe-like beak, and a covering of white feathers over the whole body, singular creatures, which seemed to connect the oviparous tribes with the mammifers.
-- His figure, draped in a large mat woven of "phormium" trimmed with dogskins, was clothed with a pair of cotton drawers, blood-stained from recent combats.
-- Paganel also had the good fortune to espy, in a thicket, a pair of gigantic birds; his instinct as a naturalist was awakened.
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：
-- He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and spar-kling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
-- Dr. Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of profes-sional interest, and Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyes upon me.
-- Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste ' 'Gum,' said Holmes.
-- The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand, and I have never had them on.'
-- 'Then I understand that on your arrival in London yes-terday you went out at once and bought a pair of boots?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I sold the bonds, but I didn't take the seven thousand roubles to the office; I went straight to the English shop and chose a pair of earrings, with a diamond the size of a nut in each.
-- So the pair walked along a few steps.
-- This was a gentleman of about thirty, tall, broad-shouldered, and red-haired; his face was red, too, and he possessed a pair of thick lips, a wide nose, small eyes, rath-er bloodshot, and with an ironical expression in them; as though he were perpetually winking at someone.
-- Getting anxious at last when no money was forthcoming, and alarmed above all by his patient's appetite, he presented him with a pair of old gai-ters and a shabby cloak and packed him off to Russia, third class.
-- She had scarcely descended the terrace steps leading to the high road that skirts the park at Pavlofsk, when sudden-ly there dashed by a smart open carriage, drawn by a pair of beautiful white horses.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the pair had thus laid their plans, they parted Jove to his house, while the goddess quitted the splendour of Olympus, and plunged into the depths of the sea.
-- In my father's stables there are eleven excel-lent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
-- Then Diomed killed Axylus son of Teuthranus, a rich man who lived in the strong city of Arisbe, and was beloved by all men; for he had a house by the roadside, and enter-tained every one who passed; howbeit not one of his guests stood before him to save his life, and Diomed killed both him and his squire Calesius, who was then his charioteer so the pair passed beneath the earth.
-- The pair met by the oak tree, and King Apollo son of Jove was first to speak.
-- When the pair had armed, they set out, and left the other chieftains behind them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rapped down the mustard pot on the table, and then she noticed the overcoat and hat had been taken off and put over a chair in front of the fire, and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender.
-- Jaffers got up also and produced a pair of handcuffs.
-- In a leisurely manner he did everything in a leisurely manner he was contemplating trying on a pair of boots.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was drawn by twelve pair of donkeys, all of the same size, but all of different color.
-- His manly figure was adorned and enriched by a beautiful pair of donkey's ears.
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