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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, it was not more than forty miles now that they had to go, and Thaouka would not refuse to give a lift occasionally to a tired pedestrian, or even to a couple at a pinch.
-- "Patience, Edward!you will be there in a couple of hours," replied the Major.
-- Below, on the bosom of the water, were a couple of shy and unapproachable black swans.
-- It was evident, from the flocks of birds on the lower branches of the trees, and the kangaroos feeding quietly on the young shoots, and a couple of emus whose confiding heads passed between the great clumps of bushes, that those peaceful solitudes were untroubled by the presence of human beings.
-- At half-past twelve, they embarked provisions enough for a couple of days.
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：
-- In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes, and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore, the husband act-ing as butler and the wife as housekeeper.
-- So far as I know, he and his wife are as respectable a couple as any in the county.'
-- There was nothing for it, however, but implicit obedience; so we bade good-bye to our rueful friend, and a couple of hours afterwards we were at the station of Coombe Trac-ey and had dispatched the trap upon its return journey.
-- 'Here is a photograph of the couple taken in York four years ago.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pavlicheff, who had been supporting me there, died a couple of years ago.
-- The prince asked his way of passers-by, and finding that he was a couple of miles or so from his destination, he determined to take a droshky.
-- With a few exceptions, the worthy couple had lived through their long union very happily.
-- A couple of minutes later the door opened again and the affable voice of Gania cried: 'Come in please, prince!'
-- He even advanced a couple of steps to meet him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will give him a chariot and a couple of horses, the fleetest that can be found at the ships of the Achaeans, if he will dare this thing; and he will win infinite honour to boot; he must go to the ships and find out whether they are still guarded as heretofore, or whether now that we have beaten them the Achaeans design to fly, and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches.'
-- The others gave chase at once, and as a couple of well-trained hounds press forward after a doe or hare that runs screaming in front of them, even so did the son of Tydeus and Ulysses pursue Dolon and cut him off from his own people.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with that much introduction, that and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn.
-- There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw glass bottles.
-- A couple of minutes after, he rejoined the little group that had formed outside the "Coach and Horses."
-- CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing.
-- You must figure an appalled couple caught dismally in a swing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The judge gave him some, and that evening he got drunk, and was around till after mid- night with a couple of mighty hard-looking strang-ers, and then went off with them.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the hare, he ordered some partridges, a few pheasants, a couple of rabbits, and a dozen frogs and lizards.
-- Come back here within a couple of days and I hope to have more money for you!Until today I have worked for my father.
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