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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That Smelkoff had drawn from the bank, some time before his death, three thousand eight hundred rubles; that, after a due and careful inventory of the money of the deceased, only three hundred and twelve rubles and sixteen kopecks were found.
-- His father was not rich, but his mother received as her marriage portion ten thousand acres of land.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything.
-- I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
-- Well, on the third day of my visit, that was how the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One presented itself to me!
-- On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence, and it was no great wonder to see four at once.
-- After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And a great many voices all said together ('like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), 'Don't keep him waiting, child!Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!'
-- The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch!'
-- Why, the smoke alone is worth a thousand pounds a puff!'
-- Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!'
-- 'I shall dream about a thousand pounds tonight, I know I shall!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions.
-- Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
-- It's there she learned 'Pieces of eight,' and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of 'em, Hawkins!She was at the boarding of the viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby.
-- I laid by nine hundred safe, from England, and two thousand after Flint.
-- What I mean is, would he be likely to come down to the toon of, say one thousand pounds out of money that's as good as a man's own already?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAPART ONECHAPTER I.
-- Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42脗掳 15' N. lat.
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- Besides, Captain Farragut had spoken of a certain sum of two thousand dollars, set apart for whoever should first sight the monster, were he cabin-boy, common seaman, or officer.
-- ; at 320 feet, ten times that pressure; at 3,200 feet, a hundred times that pressure; lastly, at 32,000 feet, a thousand times that pressure would be 97,500,000 lb. that is to say, that you would be flattened as if you had been drawn from the plates of a hydraulic machine!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A thousand a year, and an awfully nice man.
-- "I have asked myself a thousand times."
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