score是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 刻痕, 记分, 乐谱，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Military officers destitute of mili-tary knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all near-ly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score.
-- Villain Foulon taken, my sis-ter!Old Foulon taken, my mother!Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and scream-ing, Foulon alive!Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass!Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want!O mother of God, this Foulon!O Heaven our suffering!Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Fou-lon!Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him!With these cries, numbers of the wom-en, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a pas-sionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot.
-- Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire.
-- Two score and twelve were told off.
-- We ought to have six score a day.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old prince, like all fathers indeed, was exceedingly punctilious on the score of the honor and reputation of his daughters.
-- "On that score you can set your mind quite at rest," she said, and turning away from him, she began drinking her coffee.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in its day it was the proudest inn between Chicago and Pittsburgh; an oriental palace, the entrance a score of brick Moorish arches, the lobby towering from a black and white marble floor, up past gilt iron balconies, to the green, pink, pearl, and amber skylight seven stories above.
-- In six years at Mohalis, Martin had gone to less than a score of dances, though the refined titillations of communal embracing were the chief delight of the co-educational university.
-- There are houses with chauffeurs and Bacardi cocktails, but on August evenings all save a few score burghers sit in their shirt- sleeves on front porches.
-- Its shorthand and piano departments are known far beyond the limits of Nautilus, and once, though that was some years ago, Mugford held the Grinnell College baseball team down to a score of eleven to five.
-- A score of winter tourists made the round trip, but only a score, and there was little handkerchief- waving.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Razu- mihin described it in detail again, but this time he added his own conclusions: he openly blamed Raskolnikov for intentionally insulting Pyotr Petrovitch, not seeking to ex- cuse him on the score of his illness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I toldthem what a fine fellow Steerforth was, and what a patron of mine,and Peggotty said she would walk a score of miles to see him.
-- Hisrepudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess ofits surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs.Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated atabout the level of low water-mark, soothed in her slumbers by theticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred mewhen we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, andwhich was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, andhad always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.
-- All I have to say on that score is, that the cloud haspassed from the dreary scene, and the God of Day is once morehigh upon the mountain tops.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma said it would be awkward; Mrs. Weston was in distress about the supper; and Mr. Woodhouse opposed it earnestly, on the score of health.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In London, twenty or thirty-years ago are old times; in Paris ten years, or five; in Weatherbury three or four score years were included in the mere present, and nothing less than a century set a mark on its face or tone.
-- There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further objections had been raised.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A score or so of years ago, that woman was tried at the Old Bailey for murder, and was acquitted.
-- His expression was, 'a round score o' year ago, and a'most directly after I took up wi' Compeyson.'
-- Here were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steamers, loading and unloading goods, and looking immensely high out of the water as we passed alongside; here, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges; here, at her moorings was to-morrow's steamer for Rotterdam, of which we took good notice; and here to-morrow's for Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We made easy journeys, of not above seven or eight score miles a-day; for Glumdalclitch, on purpose to spare me, complained she was tired with the trotting of the horse.
-- He asked, what business we had out of our own islands, un-less upon the score of trade, or treaty, or to defend the coasts with our fleet?'
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