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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he felt cold, and shaking an extra quantity of bedding round the yearling ewes he entered the hut and heaped more fuel upon the stove.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where else in Paris would they have found wholesome food in sufficient quantity at the prices she charged them, and rooms which they were at liberty to make, if not exactly elegant or comfortable, at any rate clean and healthy?
-- His cupboards (_ormoires_, as he called them in the popular dialect) were filled with a quantity of plate that he brought with him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reflected on this, and by touching the various branches, I discovered the cause and busied myself in col-lecting a great quantity of wood, that I might dry it and have 120 Frankensteina plentiful supply of fire.
-- This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all nov-elties to us.
-- With trembling hand I conveyed the instruments out of the room, but I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I accordingly put them into a basket, with a great quantity of stones, and lay-ing them up, determined to throw them into the sea that very night; and in the meantime I sat upon the beach, em-ployed in cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus.
-- Ever since my recovery from the fever I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of lau-danum, for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.
-- Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfor-tunes, I now swallowed double my usual quantity and soon slept profoundly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted to my diet,--besides giving me as much crumb as possible in combination with as little butter, and putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,--his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic.
-- But there was a quantity of chalk about our country, and perhaps the people neglected no opportunity of turning it to account.
-- Following the wall of the jail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles; and from this, and from the quantity of people standing about smelling strongly of spirits and beer, I inferred that the trials were on.
-- Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair.
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found 17by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse.
-- The reader may please to observe, that, in the last arti-cle of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the sup-port of 1724 Lilliputians.
-- I walked 55towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspec-tive glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face, close-shaven, thin, and sallow, was shaded by a great quantity of dark hair, brushed into a roll all round his head, and parted up the centre.
-- 'I left my servant at the railway looking after the luggage very heavy train and vast quantity of it in the van and strolled on, looking about me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our tools consisted of two pickaxes, two crowbars, a silken ladder, three iron-shod Alpine poles, a hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges, some pointed pieces of iron, and a quantity of strong rope.
-- It can readily be believed what an enormous quantity of elastic fluids were piled up within its centre, when at last it afforded no other openings, after the process of cooling the crust had taken place.
-- In addition, the whole soil was covered by a vast quantity of stony relics, having the appearance of flints worn by the action of the waves, and lying in successive layers one above the other.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The woman has blown off an amazing quantity of poi-son-gas.
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