quantity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 量， 数量； 大量，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years,' said Scrooge.
-- Mrs Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour.
-- asked a third, tak-ing a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little fishing was done in the port, and a quantity of strolling about by night, and looking seaward: particularly at those times when the tide made, and was near flood.
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur, and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head, though not to the conceal-ment of her large earrings.
-- He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two long golden hairs, which he had, in some old day, wound off upon his finger.
-- So Tvery great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridic-ulous exaggeration.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what we call 'men"; yet they looked different to us.
-- Why, one morning there came a quantity of people and set to work in the loft.
-- She carried a quantity of matches in an old apron, and she held a bundle of them in her hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very good, electricity and heat are the same thing; but is it possible to substitute the one quantity for the other in the equation for the solution of any problem?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cover also contained in surprisingly small space, a quantity of poetic prose, and the inspiring promise: Doctor, don't be buffaloed by the unenterprising.
-- Nautilus is distinguished by large houses with large lawns and by an astounding quantity of garages and lofty church spires.
-- The house did, from the street, seem to have an unusual quantity of graystone gargoyles and carven lintels and bronze grills, but it did not seem large.
-- "Joy," he observed, "there seems to be an astounding quantity of that Dr. Arrowsmith person about the place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the ground-floor isPeggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-houseon a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that 21look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferociousmanner.
-- We went into a little back-parlour behind the shop, where wefound three young women at work on a quantity of blackmaterials, which were heaped upon the table, and little bits andcuttings of which were littered all over the floor.
-- If so, itsharpened his appetite; for I distinctly called to mind that,although he had eaten a good deal of pork and greens at dinner,and had finished off with a fowl or two, he was obliged to havecold boiled bacon for tea, and disposed of a large quantity withoutany emotion.
-- He was sointent upon it, that I had ample leisure to observe the large paperkite in a corner, the confusion of bundles of manuscript, thenumber of pens, and, above all, the quantity of ink (which he 194seemed to have in, in half-gallon jars by the dozen), before heobserved my being present.
-- The scent ofgeranium leaf, at this day, strikes me with a half-comical, half-serious wonder as to what change has come over me in a moment;and then I see a straw hat and blue ribbons, and a quantity of curls,and a little black dog being held up, in two slender arms, against abank of blossoms and bright leaves.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- As to there being any quantity of snow fallen or likely to fall to impede their return, that was a mere joke; he was afraid they would find no difficulty.
-- William Larkins let me keep a larger quantity than usual this year.
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