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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II In 1904, when Martin Arrowsmith was an Arts and Science Junior preparing for medical school, Winnemac had but five thousand students yet it was already brisk.
-- A thousand fables fluttered about him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No matter!It is only nine-ty versts and then they can 'travel very comfortably, third class,' for a thousand versts!Quite right, too.
-- She is as rich as a Jew, she can give you five thousand roubles at a time and she is not above taking a pledge for a rouble.
-- On the other side, fresh young lives thrown away for want of help and by thousands, on every side!A hundred thousand good deeds could be done and helped, on that old woman's money which will be buried in a monastery!Hundreds, thousands perhaps, might be set on the right path; dozens of families saved from destitu-tion, from ruin, from vice, from the Lock hospitals and all with her money.
-- But I was a thousand miles from supposing that she would misunderstand and misrepresent things in so fanciful a way芒聙娄.
-- 'Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain stand-ing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!Only to live, to live and live!Life, whatever it may be!芒聙娄 How true it is!Good God, how true!Man is a vile creature!芒聙娄 And vile is he who calls him vile for that,' he added a moment later.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is invented for me, and deliveredto me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into acheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucestercheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment'- at which Isee Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.
-- If I could associate the idea of a bull or a bear with any one so mildas Mr. Mell, I should think of him, in connection with thatafternoon when the uproar was at its height, as of one of thoseanimals, baited by a thousand dogs.
-- "Let my dearest boy go with us to our resting-place," she said, "and tell him that his mother, when she lay here,blessed him not once, but a thousand times."'
-- TheCaptain would have read it twenty thousand times, if twentythousand people would have heard him, one by one.
-- He consideredthat it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty-nineyears, counting from the Doctor's last, or sixty-second, birthday.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have heard him speak with great animation of a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with, who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece.'
-- He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss Somebody else with twenty, or with ten.
-- There probably was something more to conceal than her own preference; Mr. Dixon, perhaps, had been very near changing one friend for the other, or been fixed only to Miss Campbell, for the sake of the future twelve thousand pounds.
-- My mother desires her very best compli-ments and regards, and a thousand thanks, and says you really quite oppress her.'
-- But, on the other hand, she could not admit herself to be unhappy, nor, after the first morning, to be less disposed for employment than usual; she was still busy and cheerful; and, pleasing as he was, she could yet imagine him to have faults; and farther, though thinking of him so much, and, as she sat drawing or working, forming a thousand amus-ing schemes for the progress and close of their attachment, fancying interesting dialogues, and inventing elegant let-ters; the conclusion of every imaginary declaration on his side was that she refused him.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the shearers knelt, the sun slanting in upon their bleached shirts, tanned arms, and the polished shears they flourished, causing these to bristle with a thousand rays strong enough to blind a weak-eyed man.
-- I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.
-- Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!"
-- "Thank you for your devotion, a thousand times, Gabriel!Goodnight I know you are doing your very best for me."
-- All was harmoniously arranged at last, and we now see Oak mounted on a strong cob, and daily trotting the length and breadth of about two thousand acres in a cheerful spirit of surveillance, as if the crops all belonged to him the actual mistress of the one-half and the master of the other, sitting in their respective homes in gloomy and sad seclusion.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His bequest to her, a life annuity of a thousand francs, was periodically disputed by his heirs, who mingled slander with their persecutions.
-- Vauquer's magpie's eye had discovered and read certain entries in the list of shareholders in the 莽卢卢 9 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 funds, and, after a rough calculation, was disposed to credit Goriot (worthy man) with something like ten thousand francs a year.
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