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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody knew that she herself possessed forty thousand francs, accumulated _sou by sou_, that was her secret; surely as far as money was concerned she was a very tolerable match.
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and flounder-ing desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reason-36 Frankensteining, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
-- Good God!In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?
-- In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made him takethree thousand for the two of them."
-- "Mr. Lincoln has called for men, soldiers I mean volunteers seventy-five thousand of them!"
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
-- "Oh, dear, but I've promised a thousand ladies already!"
-- At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now,when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, we had our slices served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march instead of a man and boy at home; and we took gulps of milk and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser.
-- May you live a thousand years, and never be a worse judge of the right sort than you are at the present moment of your life!"
-- I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.
-- There was nothing against him, save the quarrel; and my sister had quarrelled with him, and with everybody else about her, ten thousand times.
-- None of these things will interfere with my chartering a few thousand tons on my own account.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soldiers, however, were set against the little tailor, and wished him a thousand miles away.
-- She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, al-though she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.
-- 175SNOWDROP t was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow Iwere falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window.
-- The first tablet said: 'In the wood, under the moss, lie the thousand pearls belonging to the king's daugh-ter; they must all be found: and if one be missing by set of sun, he who seeks them will be turned into marble.'
-- And as he sat there, the king of the ants (whose life he had saved) came to help him, with five thousand ants; and it was not long before they had found all the pearls and laid them in a heap.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
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