pound是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 磅； 英镑v. (连续) 猛击， (猛烈) 敲打， 捣碎，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《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't run to hundred- pound sauces."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, it's so much easier to be good-natured and purring and self- congratulatory and generally footless than it is to pound ahead and keep yourself strictly for your own work, the work that gets somewhere.
-- He fled to the Vermont hills for a four-day tramp--alone, that he might pound on the faster.
-- The flat wheel just beneath him--surely it shouldn't pound like that--why hadn't the confounded man with the hammer detected it at the last big station?--the flat wheel cracking; the car lurching, falling, being dragged on its side.
-- Sandy, I do love you awful' much; if I could, I'd be as ill-treated as the dickens, so you could enjoy it, but I'm no good at educated lies, only at easy little ones like the one I told you last week--I said I hadn't eaten any candy and didn't have a stomach-ache, and I'd eaten half a pound and I was as sick as a pup.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Early in the morning, at six o'clock, he went off to work on the river bank, where they used to pound alabaster and where there was a kiln for baking it in a shed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll pound it it's wot you do yourself, sir,' said Mr. Peggotty,shaking his head, 'and wot you do well- right well!I thankee, sir.
-- 'Here'sa gen'l'm'n behind me, I'll pound it,' said William, 'as has bred 'emby wholesale.'
-- Ha, ha, ha!You'd have betted a hundred pound to five,now, that you wouldn't have seen me here, wouldn't you?
-- Pound being produced by D. takes Cook to little house,where J. alone tied up to leg of table.
-- A fifty pound bank-note, in a sheet of paper,directed to me, and put underneath the door in the night.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You'll get a dollar a pound when elephants roost in trees!"
-- Cotton is at seventy-two cents a pound already.
-- Her heart began to pound and newlife came into her limbs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny.
-- The very first words I heard them interchange as I became conscious, were the words of my own thought, "Two One Pound notes."
-- "Two one pound notes, or friends?"
-- "Two one pound notes.
-- Would I find out that boy that had fed him and kep his secret, and give him them two one pound notes?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He inspect-ed each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: 'The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.
-- It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
-- It must be admitted that he allowed her half a pound of tea a year, which was weak in him: first, because all gifts have an inevitable tendency to pauperise the recipient, and secondly, because his only reasonable transaction in that commodity would have been to buy it for as little as he could possibly give, and sell it for as much as he could possibly get; it having been clearly ascertained by philosophers that in this is comprised the whole duty of man not a part of man's duty, but the whole.
-- 'Why, sir,' he would say to a visitor, 'I am told that Nickits,' the late owner, 'gave seven hundred pound for that Seabeach.
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