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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If he could stay only a couple of days, he ought to come; and one can hardly con-ceive a young man's not having it in his power to do as much as that.
-- Now, here will be Mr. Elton and Miss Hawkins; and there are the Coles, such very good people; and the Perrys I suppose there never was a happier or a better couple than Mr. and Mrs. Perry.
-- Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such; but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever want-ed was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.
-- Not more than five couple could be mus-tered; but the rarity and the suddenness of it made it very delightful, and she found herself well matched in a partner.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, when I and my wife were married at Norcombe Church," said the old maltster, not pleased at finding himself left out of the subject, "we were called the handsomest couple in the neighbourhood everybody said so."
-- "Indeed I shall not let Mr. Boldwood do any such thing I shall do it!Fanny was my uncle's servant, and, although I only knew her for a couple of days, she belongs to me.
-- He stared sternly at the one lengthy and two round faces of the sitters, which confronted him with the expressions of a fiddle and a couple of warming-pans.
-- Here and thus, jutting a couple of feet from the wall against which its feet rested as a support, the creature had for four hundred years laughed at the surrounding landscape, voicelessly in dry weather, and in wet with a gurgling and snorting sound.
-- The rays fell upon a group of male figures gathered upon the gravel in front, who, when they saw the newly-married couple in the porch, set up a loud "Hurrah!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hearth is always so clean and neat that it is evident that a fire is only kindled there on great occasions; the stone chimney-piece is adorned by a couple of vases filled with faded artificial flowers imprisoned under glass shades, on either side of a bluish marble clock in the very worst taste.
-- Above the third story there was a garret where the linen was hung to dry, and a couple of attics.
-- They were in something the same position as an elderly couple who have nothing left to say to each other.
-- Then there is that whipper-snapper of a student, who gives me a couple of francs.
-- They are such a couple of dry sticks that if they happen to strike against each other they will draw sparks like flint and steel."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But wrap the baby in a couple of thick towels and be sure and pack his clothes."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dozed off, myself, in considering the question whether I ought to restore a couple of pounds sterling to this creature before losing sight of him, and how it could best be done.
-- By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country at the back of Pumblechook's premises, I got round into the High Street again, a little beyond that pitfall, and felt myself in comparative security.
-- Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
-- "Here's a couple of pair of gloves!Let's put 'em on!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He drew out his sword and gave each of them a couple of thrusts in the breast, and then went out to the horsemen and said: 'The work is done; I have finished both of them off, but it was hard work!They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.'
-- The good couple saw them no more; but everything went well with them from that time forward, as long as they lived.
-- 'I have been playing at nine- pins,' he answered, 'and have lost a couple of far-things.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five wool-packs; and another, with 136 Gulliver's Travelsa couple of wooden legs, each about twenty feet high.
-- The method is this: You take a hundred leaders of each party; you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that the brain may be equally divided.
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