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：
-- At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
-- 'That were impossible,' returned the young man; 'he called you by a thousand endearing epithets, that I may not presume to use, but to the justice of which, I can warmly testify.
-- The mountain on which they stood, elevated perhaps a thousand feet in the air, was a high cone that rose a little in advance of that range which stretches for miles along the western shores of the lake, until meeting its sisters miles beyond the water, it ran off toward the Canadas, in con-fused and broken masses of rock, thinly sprinkled with evergreens.
-- On a strip of land, which ap-peared from his stand too narrow to contain such an army, but which, in truth, extended many hundreds of yards from the shores of the Horican to the base of the mountain, were to be seen the white tents and military engines of an en-campment of ten thousand men.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways.
-- He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
-- Imagine my surprise when he said it was a masterpiece, and offered me thirty thousand francs.
-- I wonder what he would have said when I gave him twenty-nine thousand eight hundred francs for his picture."
-- I should think he earned ten thousand a year, and his knighthood was but the first of the honours which must inevitably fall to his lot.
-- Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
-- It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance, for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- It cost the New York Herald two thousand dollars, but the New York Herald published the first intelligence.
-- Five days afterwards four of them were thrown on a desert coast, seven thousand miles from their country!But one of their number was missing, the man who was to be their guide, their leading spirit, the engineer, Captain Harding!The instant they had recovered their feet, they all hurried to the beach in the hopes of rendering him assistance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child opened the door (now guarded by a shutter which I had heard the boy put up before he left the house) and with another farewell whose clear and tender note I have recalled a thousand times, held it until we had passed out.
-- 'Her father was a blessed creetur, Quilp, and worthy twenty thousand of some people,' said Mrs Jiniwin; 'twenty hundred million thousand.'
-- With the tears streaming down her face, and her slight figure trembling with the agitation of the scene she had left, the shock she had received, the errand she had just discharged, and a thousand painful and affectionate feelings, the child hastened to the door, and disappeared as rapidly as she had come.
-- But as he was quite a creature of Mr Quilp's and had a thousand reasons for conciliating his good opinion, he tried to smile, and nodded his acquiescence with the best grace he could assume.
-- The freshness of the day, the singing of the birds, the beauty of the waving grass, the deep green leaves, the wild flowers, and the thousand exquisite scents and sounds that floated in the air deep joys to most of us, but most of all to those whose life is in a crowd or who live solitarily in great cities as in the bucket of a human well sunk into their breasts and made them very glad.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
-- He also apologized for his failure to send the three thousand rubles due on the first of the month, which he would send by the next mail, explaining it by the difficulty of collecting the rents from the peasants whose bad faith had reached a point where it became necessary to resort to the courts to collect them.
-- Behind the old lady, beaming in his wide-open vest, and with a self-sufficient smile on his face, came that same famous lawyer who so managed the case that the lady with the large flowers lost all her property, while his shrewd client, who paid him ten thousand rubles, received over a hundred thousand.
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