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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you pass Bradley's, would you ask him to send up a pound of the strongest shag tobacco?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, to be plain with you, if I ever, in the whole course of my life, take seven looks at it, at a hundred pound a look, it will be as much as I shall do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each had one pound of food to last him as long as he remained in the interior of the earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am in for forty pound odd.'
-- Plornish, having been made acquainted with the cause of action from the Defendant's own mouth, gave Arthur to understand that the Plaintiff was a 'Chaunter' meaning, not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses and that he (Plornish) considered that ten shillings in the pound 'would settle handsome,' and that more would be a waste of money.
-- This sum, Mr Clennam would be happy to learn, he had, through the promptitude of several friends who had a lively confidence in his probity, already raised, with the exception of a trifling balance of one pound seventeen and fourpence; the loan of which balance, for the period of one month, would be fraught with the usual beneficent consequences.
-- You are young; may you never outlive your feelings!If I was to outlive my own feelings, sir,' said Mr Rugg, who was a man of many words, and was considered to possess a remarkably good address; 'if I was to outlive my own feelings, I'd leave fifty pound in my will to the man who would put me out of existence.'
-- This is an extensive affair of yours; and your remaining here where a man can come for a pound or two, is remarked upon as not in keeping.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be careful with the butter twenty cents the pound it was, and mind ye, if ""Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering, away!"
-- Jinglers, you say? there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so.
-- Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thyself.
-- "No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should say, three pound ten was plenty,' said Mr. Limbkins.
-- 'Three pound ten,' repeated Mr. Limbkins, firmly.
-- 'Three pound fifteen.'
-- 'The kind and blessed gentleman which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own: are a going to 'prentice' you: and to set you up in life, and make a man of you: although the expense to the parish is three pound ten!--three pound ten, Oliver!--seventy shillins--one hundred and forty sixpences!--and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can't love.'
-- One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner -hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton--a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck--when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier purpose than aggravating and tantalising young Oliver Twist.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' says he, 'I'll bring some;' and accordingly he brought a great leather pouch, which held a pound and a half of powder, or rather more; and another with shot, that had five or six pounds, with some bullets, and put all into the boat.
-- After this, I made a great heavy pestle or beater of the wood called the iron-wood; and this I prepared and laid by against I had my next crop of corn, which I proposed to myself to grind, or rather pound into meal to make bread.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How much do you pay for a pound of meat?"
-- "Better get a half or three-quarters of a pound of that."
-- Hurstwood bought the flour--which all grocers sold in/2-pound packages--for thirteen cents and paid fifteen cents for a half- pound of liver and bacon.
-- On this account, Hurstwood, this very day, looked grocer Oeslogge clearly in the eye as he ordered a pound of coffee, and said: "Do you mind carrying my account until the end of every week?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market- house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry.
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