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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
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：
-- Tough Bill not only paid for the canvas, colours, and brushes, but gave Strickland a pound of smuggled tobacco into the bargain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Half a pound of tobacco," replied Pencroft seriously, "and nothing would have been wanting to complete my happiness!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clergyman's horse, stumbling with a dull blunt sound among the graves, was cropping the grass; at once deriving orthodox consolation from the dead parishioners, and enforcing last Sunday's text that this was what all flesh came to; a lean ass who had sought to expound it also, without being qualified and ordained, was pricking his ears in an empty pound hard by, and looking with hungry eyes upon his priestly neighbour.
-- 'Six pound a year!Only think!'
-- 'Please God we'll make such a lady of you for Sundays, mother!such a scholar of Jacob, such a child of the baby, such a room of the one up stairs!Six pound a year!'
-- 'What's that about six pound a year?
-- What about six pound a year?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Pew, as had lost his sight, and might have thought shame, spends twelve hundred pound in a year, like a lord in Parliament.
-- There's seven hundred thousand pound not a quarter of a mile from here.
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