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'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door.'
-- 'It's a thousand to one against our finding him at the house,' he continued as we retraced our steps swiftly down the path.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fine fellow he was and had a property of four thousand souls in his day.'
-- Next morning my father happened to give me two government loan bonds to sell, worth nearly five thousand roubles each.
-- 'Sell them,' said he, 'and then take seven thousand five hundred roubles to the office, give them to the cashier, and bring me back the rest of the ten thousand, without looking in anywhere on the way; look sharp, I shall be waiting for you.'
-- Well, I sold the bonds, but I didn't take the seven thousand roubles to the office; I went straight to the English shop and chose a pair of earrings, with a diamond the size of a nut in each.
-- Having remarked how difficult it was for him, of all people, to speak to her of these matters, Totski concluded by saying that he trusted Nasta-sia Philipovna would not look with contempt upon him if he now expressed his sincere desire to guarantee her future by a gift of seventy-five thousand roubles.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the clamour of the Trojan ranks was as that of many thousand ewes that stand waiting to be milked in the yards of some rich flockmaster, and bleat incessantly in answer to the bleating of their lambs; for they had not one speech nor lan-guage, but their tongues were diverse, and they came from many different places.
-- Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men in the thick of a fight, and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry he raised.
-- The son of Jason freighted them with ten thousand measures of wine, which he sent specially to the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus.
-- A thousand camp-fires gleamed upon the plain, and in the glow of each there sat fifty men, while the horses, champing oats and corn beside their chariots, waited till dawn should come.
-- So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defence of his fellow-citi-zens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy though he had given much for her: he had given a hundred-head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H. G. Wells CONTENTS I The strange Man's Arrival II Mr. Teddy Henfrey's first Impressions III The thousand and one Bottles IV Mr. Cuss interviews the Stranger V The Burglary at the Vicarage VI The Furniture that went mad VII The Unveiling of the Stranger VIII In Transit IX Mr. Thomas Marvel X Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping XI In the "Coach and Horses" XII The invisible Man loses his Temper XIII Mr. Marvel discusses his Resignation XIV At Port Stowe XV The Man who was running XVI In the "Jolly Cricketers" XVII Dr. Kemp's Visitor XVIII The invisible Man sleeps XIX Certain first Principles XX At the House in Great Portland Street XXI In Oxford Street XXII In the Emporium XXIII In Drury Lane XXIV The Plan that failed XXV The Hunting of the invisible Man XXVI The Wicksteed Murder XXVII The Siege of Kemp's House XXVIII The Hunter hunted The Epilogue CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
-- CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village.
-- The bandages excited his professional interest, the report of the thousand and one bottles aroused his jealous regard.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.'
-- I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repul-sive speedily became natural and ordinary to me.
-- I found a thousand difficulties.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were called the holluschickie the bachelors and there were perhaps two or three hundred thousand of them at Novastoshnah alone.
-- One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the seaweed, the seal roar, and the fighting.
-- I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when men killed us by the hundred thousand there was a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place.
-- Limmershin told me that never in his life and Limmer-shin sees ten thousand big seals fighting every year never in all his little life did he see anything like Kotick's charge into the nurseries.
-- A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand hol-luschickie and old seals) went away north to the Sea Cow's tunnel, Kotick leading them, and the seals that stayed at No-vastoshnah called them idiots.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers.
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