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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A couple of sailors appeared on the forecas-tle.
-- We chased it for a couple of days.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul's again.
-- And just as he was going to roll the speaker over, a couple of black-haired men with flat red faces came from behind a sand dune, and Kotick, who had never seen a man before, coughed and low-ered his head.
-- The next few days were spent in getting the elephants to-gether, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giv-ing too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The greater part of the time he scraped on two or three strings, accompany-ing every movement of the bow with a motion of the head; bowing almost to the ground, and stamping with his foot whenever a fresh couple were to start.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked up narrow stairs, and on the landing found a sort of box, glassed in, within which were a desk and a couple of chairs.
-- I quickly found myself a tiny apartment on the fifth floor of a house in the Rue des Dames, and for a couple of hundred francs bought at a second-hand dealer's enough furniture to make it habitable.
-- Stroeve liked his ease, and in his studio were a couple of heavily upholstered arm-chairs and a large divan.
-- He had not shaved for a couple of days.
-- I should be sorry if my conscience, insisting on a rigid attention to the matter in hand, forced me to dismiss him in a couple of lines.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A whole half-hour passed, but then, as the sailor had surmised, several couple of grouse returned to their nests.
-- The strings of couroucous were kept for the next day, but they plucked a couple of grouse, which were soon spitted on a stick, and roasting before a blazing fire.
-- Water-birds would prosper there as well as others, and the couple of tinamous taken in their last excursion would be the first to be domesticated.
-- A few days afterwards, Herbert snared a couple of gallinaceae, with spreading tails composed of long feathers, magnificent alectors, which soon became tame.
-- Towards the end of the summer, the poultry-yard was possessed of a couple of fine bustards, which belonged to the houbara species, characterized by a sort of feathery mantle; a dozen shovelers, whose upper mandible was prolonged on each side by a membraneous appendage; and also some magnificent cocks, similar to the Mozambique cocks, the comb, caruncle, and epidermis being black.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The opinion was not the result of hasty consideration, for which indeed there was no opportunity at that time, as the child came directly, and soon occupied herself in preparations for giving Kit a writing lesson, of which it seemed he had a couple every week, and one regularly on that evening, to the great mirth and enjoyment both of himself and his instructress.
-- The dwarf's lodging on Tower hill comprised, besides the needful accommodation for himself and Mrs Quilp, a small sleeping-closet for that lady's mother, who resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel; of whom, notwithstanding, she stood in no slight dread.
-- 'Mrs Quilp, pray ask the ladies to stop to supper, and have a couple of lobsters and something light and palatable.'
-- 'It's a long way from her home to the wharf, and then she was alarmed to see a couple of young scoundrels fighting, and was timorous on the water besides.
-- Looking into the eyes of Mrs and Miss Wackles for encouragement, and sitting very upright and uncomfortable on a couple of hard stools, were two of the day-scholars; and when Miss Wackles smiled, and Mrs Wackles smiled, the two little girls on the stools sought to curry favour by smiling likewise, in gracious acknowledgement of which attention the old lady frowned them down instantly, and said that if they dared to be guilty of such an impertinence again, they should be sent under convoy to their respective homes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff had visited them once the previous winter, but the couple seemed so uninteresting to him that he never called again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were, perhaps, a couple of hundred people dining in the hall, and most of them, seated as near to me as they could come, were watching me with interest, their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating.
-- Then I slept, and when I woke again it was full day, and a couple of sparrows were hopping round me on the turf within reach of my arm.
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