thousand是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. /n. /a. 一千; [pl.,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:
-- He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five.
-- All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
-- Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- 70 A tale of two citiesBook the Second-the Golden Thread I Five Years Later ellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned Tplace, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty.
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:
-- In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to the moon, which, as every-one knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow.
-- They thrust at the 118 Andersen's Fairy Taleshorrid snow-flakes with their spears, so that they flew into a thousand pieces; and little Gerda walked on bravely and in security.
-- In the middle of the empty, endless hall of snow, was a frozen lake; it was cracked in a thousand pieces, but each piece was so like the other, that it seemed the work of a cunning artificer.
-- And spring came, and summer; and then it was autumn, and then winter; and a thousand pictures were reflected in the eye and in the heart of the boy; and the little girl always sang to him, 'This you will never forget.'
-- Tailors, and shoemakers, and all the folks, moved out into the 172 Andersen's Fairy Talesstreet chairs and tables were brought forth and candles burnt yes, above a thousand lights were burning and the one talked and the other sung; and people walked and church-bells rang, and asses went along with a dingle-din-gle-dong!for they too had bells on.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if Karenin had not got his brother- in-law this berth, then through a hundred other personages-- brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, and aunts--Stiva Oblonsky would have received this post, or some other similar one, together with the salary of six thousand absolutely needful for them, as his affairs, in spite of his wife's considerable property, were in an embarrassed condition.
-- It's very nice for you to have over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky district, and such muscles, and the freshness of a girl of twelve; still you'll be one of us one day.
-- "Yes, my dear boy," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, nodding his head, "he's a lucky fellow!Over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky district; everything before him; and what youth and vigor!Not like some of us."
-- Levin's a thousand times the better man.
-- "All consolation and counsel and Christian forgiveness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, and it's all no use."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- People said that he resembled Byron at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
-- He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions.
-- "What!a fellow who makes off with fifty-five thousand pounds, no robber?"
-- A package of banknotes, to the value of fifty-five thousand pounds, had been taken from the principal cashier's table, that functionary being at the moment engaged in registering the receipt of three shillings and sixpence.
-- As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Locate in Zenith and make five thousand dollars year--much as United States Senator!Set a high goal.
-- Make five thousand dollars year.
-- There are twelve thousand students; beside this prodigy Oxford is a tiny theological school and Harvard a select college for young gentlemen.
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