innumerable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 数不清的，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：
-- The stratified rocks on the shore were richly carpeted with verdure, and innumerable kangaroos were jumping over the woods and plains, just as at the time of its discovery in 1802.
-- He passed two long years of painful slavery among them, but always cherished in his heart the hope of one day regaining his freedom, and watching for the slightest opportunity that might turn up, though he knew that his flight would be attended with innumerable dangers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But from that night un-til the end came, there was but one thing happened to tell save a series of innumerable small unpleasant details and the fretting of an incessant uneasiness.
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：
-- That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace.
-- During the evening we played innumerable games of piquet, and bravely, not to disappoint my efforts, he tried to appear interested.
-- Once they each of them earned a franc by loading trucks with innumerable boxes of oranges that had been dumped down on the quay.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The beach was strewn with innumerable shells, some of which would have rejoiced the heart of a conchologist; there were, among others, the phasianella, the terebratual, etc.
-- Drops, still ha nging from the rocks, shone here and there under the light of the torches, and the explorers guessed that the sides were clothed with innumerable stalactites.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gold iconostasis was aflame with innumerable candles, which surrounded a large one in the centre wound in a narrow strip of gilt paper.
-- Rabelais relates the story of a jurist who was trying a case, and who, after citing innumerable laws and reading twenty pages of incomprehensible judicial Latin, made an offer to the litigants to throw dice; if an even number fell then the plaintiff was right; if an odd number the defendant was right.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Fine hospitality,' said I, 'to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.'
-- Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised, perhaps, a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits.
-- On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence, and it was no great wonder to see four at once.
-- They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash; and until I got my eye above the window-sill I could not comprehend why the watchmen had taken no alarm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Torres Straits are nearly thirty-four leagues wide; but they are obstructed by an innumerable quantity of islands, islets, breakers, and rocks, that make its navigation almost impracticable; so that Captain Nemo took all needful precautions to cross them.
-- Here the grouping formed an oriental town, with innumerable mosques and minarets; there a fallen city thrown to the earth, as it were, by some convulsion of nature.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexander the up-to-date host, so bloodlessly free-and-easy, Fr脙陇ulein so prettily chiming in just as she should, the little Italian Countess taking notice of everybody, only playing her little game, objective and cold, like a weasel watching everything, and extracting her own amusement, never giving herself in the slightest; then Miss Bradley, heavy and rather subservient, treated with cool, almost amused contempt by Hermione, and therefore slighted by everybody how known it all was, like a game with the figures set out, the same figures, the Queen of chess, the knights, the pawns, the same now as they were hundreds of years ago, the same figures moving round in one of the innumerable permutations that make up the game.
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