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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of reward-ing merit, great abilities, eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for em-ployments persons qualified to exercise them, with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, 'that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational, which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll sell thee off again, and I'll sell thee off again, and I'll sell thee off a score of times!'
-- She had a curious propensity to call Mrs. Bounderby 'Miss Gradgrind,' and yielded to it some three or four score times in the course of the evening.
-- and a score or two hailed, with assenting cries of 'Hear, hear!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You were the moving power of all this machinery before my birth; your stronger spirit has been infused into all my father's dealings for more than two score years.
-- If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
-- For the little old man is going home to the Workhouse; and on his good behaviour they do not let him out often (though methinks they might, considering the few years he has before him to go out in, under the sun); and on his bad behaviour they shut him up closer than ever in a grove of two score and nineteen more old men, every one of whom smells of all the others.
-- It was necessarily but a sprinkling of any class of Barnacles that attended the marriage, for there were not two score in all, and what is that subtracted from Legion!But the sprinkling was a swarm in the Twickenham cottage, and filled it.
-- Not that he spared her, or was fearful of her being spent by watching and fatigue; he was not more troubled on that score than he had usually been.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.
-- of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket?
-- was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices.
-- As if struck by some enchanter's wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all at once started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from all parts of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from aloft, shouted forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air.
-- Hence it is, that, while other ships may have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes, thus mutely appealed to; and possibly feeling his personal pride and influence interested in the immediate reduction of Miss Nancy to reason; gave utterance to about a couple of score of curses and threats, the rapid production of which reflected great credit on the fertility of his invention.
-- He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her service; and yet a hundred little occasions rose up before him, on which he fancied he might have been more zealous, and more earnest, and wished he had been.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.
-- They agreed that Mrs. Bennet should only hear of the de-parture of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct; but even this partial communi-cation gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.
-- 'After mentioning the likelihood of this marriage to her ladyship last night, she immediately, with her usual conde-scension, expressed what she felt on the occasion; when it become apparent, that on the score of some family objections on the part of my cousin, she would never give her consent to what she termed so disgraceful a match.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found in her three- score eggs; and her flesh was to me, at that time, the most savoury and pleasant that ever I tasted in my life, hav-ing had no flesh, but of goats and fowls, since I landed in this horrid place.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she came within a score of feet of the desired goal, she saw through the window a young man in a grey checked suit.
-- There were, in the last place, a few good followers, neither rich nor poor, famous, nor yet remarkably successful, with whom he was friendly on the score of good-fellowship.
-- It seems plain that schemers would choose more sequestered quarters to arrange their plans, that politicians would not gather here in company to discuss anything save formalities, where the sharp- eared may hear, and it would scarcely be justified on the score of thirst, for the majority of those who frequent these more gorgeous places have no craving for liquor.
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