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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The characters used in these books were afterwards reintroduced in "The Mysterious Island," which was in its turn a sequel to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."
-- His pantaloons and jacket were of brown velvet, and their innumerable pockets were stuffed with note-books, memorandum-books, account-books, pocket-books, and a thousand other things equally cumbersome and useless, not to mention a telescope in addition, which he carried in a shoulder-belt.
-- "A thousand thanks, my Lord!I deeply feel your courtesy, but allow me to make one observation: India is a fine country, and can offer many a surprising marvel to travelers.
-- Ships of the largest tonnage find, throughout, sufficient depth of water, even close to the shore, and there is a good bottom everywhere, and abundance of fresh water, and rivers abounding in fish, and forests in game, and plenty of safe and accessible harbors; in fact a thousand things which are lacking in Strait Lemaire and Cape Horn, with its terrible rocks, incessantly visited by hurricane and tempest.
-- CHAPTER XII ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET ALOFTNOTHING of importance had occurred hitherto in the passage through Chili; but all the obstacles and difficulties incident to a mountain journey were about to crowd on the travelers now.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope,' said Dr. Mortimer, 'that you do not look with suspicious eyes upon everyone who received a legacy from Sir Charles, for I also had a thousand pounds left to me.'
-- 'Seven hundred and forty thousand pounds.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he gave his promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye.
-- She was struck with the evidences of wealth, although there was, perhaps, not a person on the street worth more than a hundred thousand dollars.
-- It worked out in a thousand little conversations, all of which were of the same calibre.
-- "Oh, over two thousand dollars.
-- I sold three thousand dollars' worth in La Crosse."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We got six thousand dollars apiece all gold.
-- If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in up-wards of a thousand places.
-- One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hun-dred camels, and over a thousand 'sumter' mules, all loaded down with di'monds, and they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things.
-- I want you to take it; I want to give it to you the six thousand and all.'
-- Here's what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up'ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio, as may easily be imagined, thanked him a thousand times.
-- "Do you want one hundred, a thousand, two thousand gold pieces for your miserable five?"
-- "And as soon as I have them, I shall keep two thousand for myself and the other five hundred I'll give to you two."
-- Happily for him, Pinocchio was made of very hard wood and the knives broke into a thousand pieces.
-- asked the Falcon, bending his beak in deep reverence (for it must be known that, after all, the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair was none other than a very kind Fairy who had lived, for more than a thousand years, in the vicinity of the forest).
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