most是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最多的； 大多数的ad. 最； 极其n. 大多数，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
-- He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
-- The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
-- For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
-- By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
-- Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time.
-- Notwithstanding the most superlative, and, I may say, supernat'ral exertions on the part of this parish,' said Bumble, 'we have never been able to discover who is his father, or what was his mother's settlement, name, or con--dition.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his man-ners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Der-byshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be com-pared with his friend.
-- He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
-- Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Ben-net, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.
-- 'Oh!She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable.
-- Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Cath-erine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they had yet learnt to care for at a ball.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned John Baptist, closing his eyes and giving his head a most vehement toss.
-- Both are conventionally compared with death; but the difference is the whole deep gulf between the struggle done, and the fight at its most desperate extremity.
-- 'Most people do, I suppose.'
-- It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least.
-- She was not elegantly dressed, but a noble-looking woman, and the girls thought the gray cloak and unfashionable bonnet covered the most splendid mother in the world.
-- Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.
-- 'I shall take the cream and the muffings,' added Amy, he-roically giving up the article she most liked.
-- On christmas night, a dozen girls piled onto the bed which was the dress circle, and sat before the blue and yel-low chintz curtains in a most flattering state of expectancy.
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