ounce是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 盎司， 英两，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was only to be had from the druggists as you nowadays buy an ounce of rhubarb.
-- Look ye!d'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?
-- And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The weight o' the pair, mum,' said George, eyeing them with the look of a man who was calculating within half an ounce or so, 'would be a trifle under that of Oliver Cromwell.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery, in a by-comer, and made him Member of Parliament for Coketown: one of the respected members for ounce weights and measures, one of the representatives of the multiplication table, one of the deaf honourable gentlemen, dumb honourable gentlemen, blind honourable gentlemen, lame honourable gentlemen, dead honourable gentlemen, to every other consideration.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had consumed our last ounce of food, and it was five o'clock in the morning!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh.
-- While there's a ounce of wittles or drink of any sort in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it.
-- He was a hard man, and would never bate an ounce of plate or a bottle of wine.
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