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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The quartermaster did his best to satisfy the poor girl, and Glenarvan did not interrupt him, though a score of questions far more important crowded into his mind.
-- This scene ended, a score of fires were lit at various points of the "pah"; the smell of charred flesh polluted the air; and but for the fearful tumult of the festival, but for the cries that emanated from these flesh-sated throats, the captives might have heard the bones crunching under the teeth of the cannibals.
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：
-- The whole steep slope was covered with gray circular rings of stone, a score of them at least.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At every step he named some topographical or biograph-ical detail that left nothing to be desired on the score of accuracy.
-- As if there are not plenty of sins to your score without the need of those!'
-- He excused his client on the score of poverty.
-- In the American War some of the most ad-vanced Liberals took sides with the planters on the score that the blacks were an inferior race to the whites, and that might was the right of the white race.'
-- And is it really worth your while to try to score off him?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white-haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits.
-- Be-fore me were the clumsy backs of perhaps a score of these Beast People, their misshapen heads half hidden by their shoulder-blades.
-- There could now be scarcely a score left of the dangerous carnivores; the braver of these were already dead.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
-- After that he was taken off timber-hauling, and- employed, with a few score other elephants who were trained to the business, in helping to catch wild elephants among the Garo hills.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he approached the stream, his heart began to thump he summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not for a score of worlds,' replied the dwarf with a grin.
-- 'Not even to have a score of mothers-in-law at the same time and what a blessing that would be!'
-- I only want a little help once more, a few pounds, but two score pounds, dear Quilp.'
-- Grown-up folks began to be interested in the bright-eyed girl, and some score of little boys fell desperately in love, and constantly left enclosures of nuts and apples, directed in small-text, at the wax-work door.
-- A score of dirty hands were raised directly to knock for him, and seldom has a knocker of equal powers been made to produce more deafening sounds than this particular engine on the occasion in question.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb 'to eat.'
-- Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
-- "There I found a second great hall covered with cushions, upon which, perhaps, a score or so of the little people were sleeping.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drouet was bobbing around chatting and joking with a score of individuals whom he knew.
-- She saw herself in a score of pathetic situations in which she assumed a tremulous voice and suffering manner.
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