couple是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (一) 对， 双； 夫妇v. 连接， 结合，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The guard soon replaced his blunderbuss in his arm-chest, and, hav-ing looked to the rest of its contents, and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt, looked to a smaller chest beneath his seat, in which there were a few smith's tools, a couple of torches, and a tinder-box.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They slept; the young couple gov-erned in the forest, and had a numerous progeny, but they were never boiled, and never came on the silver dishes; so from this they concluded that the manor-house had fallen to ruins, and that all the men in the world were extinct; and as no one contradicted them, so, of course it was so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ploughland was in splendid condition; in a couple of days it would be fit for harrowing and sowing.
-- On learning from the porter's wife, who came out to them, that Mihailov saw visitors at his studio, but that at that moment he was in his lodging only a couple of steps off, they sent her to him with their cards, asking permission to see his picture.
-- Kitty was distressed, as she always was, at parting for a couple of days from her husband, but when she saw his eager figure, looking big and strong in his shooting-boots and his white blouse, and a sort of sportsman elation and excitement incomprehensible to her, she forgot her own chagrin for the sake of his pleasure, and said good-bye to him cheerfully.
-- I heard how it's a question of the greatest consequence, whether or not you're to be away for a couple of days' shooting.
-- In a space between two little thickets, to a couple of yards' distance, he could see a grouse.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're going to marry me and--Take me couple more years to finish my medical course and couple in hospital, then we'll be married and--By thunder, with you helping me, I'm going to climb to the top!Be big surgeon!We're going to have everything!"
-- When they had brought their own sandwiches and coffee and mosaic cake from the long counter, Clif rasped: "Well, it's grand of a couple of dress-suit swells like you to assassinate with me 'mid the midmosts of sartorials and Sassiety.
-- "Stealing--" "Rats!What's stealing!You're always making fun of these preachers that talk about Sin and Truth and Honesty and all those words that've been used so much they don't mean a darn' thing and-- I don't care!Daws Hunziker, the old man's son, he told me his dad said you could be a millionaire, and then you keep us strapped like this, and Mom sick-- Let me tell you, back in Mohalis Mom used to slip me a couple of dollars almost every week and-- I'm tired of it!If you're going to keep me in rags, I'm going to cut out college!"
-- "There's a couple of vacant rooms behind the Eagle office."
-- Couple things I'd like to talk to you about.
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：
-- He said a couple of words in French to a foreigner who was in the room, and said them fairly correctly.
-- In a couple of minutes Nastasya returned with the soup, and announced that the tea would be ready directly.
-- 'It would not be amiss, Nastasya, if Praskovya Pavlov-na were to send us up a couple of bottles of beer.
-- You see that they are a bit worn, but they'll last a couple of months, for it's foreign work and foreign leather; the secretary of the English Embassy sold them last week he had only worn them six days, but he was very short of cash.
-- As soon as he got the rouble he changed it, had a couple of glasses, took his change and went out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Perhaps you'd like to spend a couple of shillings or so, in a bottleof currant wine by and by, up in the bedroom?'
-- My timid stationon his threshold was not occupied more than a couple of minutesat most; but I came down again with all this in my knowledge, assurely as the knife and fork were in my hand.
-- I never thought that I had a curious couple ofguardians, in my aunt and Mr. Dick.
-- 'My first master willsucceed me- I am in earnest at last- so you'll soon have to arrangeour contracts, and to bind us firmly to them, like a couple ofknaves.'
-- She has a couple of thousand pounds of her own, and savesthe interest of it every year, to add to the principal.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church.
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