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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- 'A couple of pocket-books,' replied that young gentlman.
-- When this game had been played a great many times, a couple of young ladies called to see the young gentleman; one of whom was named Bet, and the other Nancy.
-- The door was opened for this purpose, and a couple of men were preparing to carry the insensible boy to his cell; when an elderly man of decent but poor appearance, clad in an old suit of black, rushed hastily into the office, and advanced towards the bench.
-- said Mr. Brownlow, with a slight shudder; 'a couple of glasses of port wine would have done him a great deal more good.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jane was already so much recovered as to intend leaving her room for a couple of hours that evening.
-- Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give.
-- Wherever you and Jane are known you must be respected and valued; and you will not appear to less advantage for having a couple of or I may say, three very silly sisters.
-- But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.
-- She was going to the butcher's, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was contrary to every doctrine of hers that difference of fortune should keep any couple asunder who were attracted by resemblance of disposition; and that Elinor's merit should not be acknowledged by every one who knew her, was to her comprehension impossible.
-- If dancing formed the amusement of the night, they were partners for half the time; and when obliged to separate for a couple of dances, were careful to stand together and scarcely spoke a word to any body else.
-- I did not see it to advantage, for nothing could be more forlorn than the furniture, but if it were newly fitted up a couple of hundred pounds, Willoughby says, would make it one of the pleasantest summer-rooms in England."
-- As Elinor was certain of seeing her in a couple of minutes, without taking that liberty, she begged to be excused.
-- The dining parlour will admit eighteen couple with ease; card-tables may be placed in the drawing-room; the library may be open for tea and other refreshments; and let the supper be set out in the saloon.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw no place which did not hold a couple or a group of girls, and being too timid to think of intruding herself, she sought out her machine and, seated upon her stool, opened her lunch on her lap.
-- There he leaned over the splendid bar and swallowed a glass of plain whiskey and purchased a couple of cigars, one of which he lighted.
-- "Well," said Drouet, whose memory for such things was not the best, "it's about a girl who gets kidnapped by a couple of crooks--a man and a woman that live in the slums.
-- "They just sent me a couple of tickets, which I can have for two dollars.
-- Another time he joined a couple of his new friends at an evening game of poker.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He catched me a couple of times and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or outrun him most of the time.
-- But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so now he raised a howl that fairly made a body's hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled there, and held his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous.
-- A couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very friendly.
-- There was heaps of old greasy cards scattered around over the floor, and old whisky bottles, and a couple of masks made out of black cloth; and all over the walls was the ignorantest kind of words and pictures made with charcoal.
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