several是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 几个， 若干， 数个； 各个的， 各自的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After several turns, he sat down again.
-- Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas, as they parted at cross-roads and bye-ways, for their several homes.
-- They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke be-70 Sons and Loverslow his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it.
-- laughed the same woman, when old Joe, pro-ducing a flannel bag with money in it, told out their several gains upon the ground.
-- The Ghost conducted him through several streets famil-iar to his feet; and as they went along, Scrooge looked here and there to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head.
-- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
-- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender-and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.
-- Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.
-- After several re-lapses into business-absorption, Mr. Lorry had become the Doctor's friend, and the quiet street-corner was the sunny part of his life.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Up there is the rabble of the wood, continued she, pointing to several laths which were fastened before a hole high up in the wall; 'that's the rabble; they would all fly away immedi-ately, if they were not well fastened in.
-- And several drawers were opened, and the piano was opened; it had landscapes on the inside of the lid, and it was so hoarse when the old man played on it!and then he hummed a song.
-- That day passed, and the little boy went home, and that week passed, and several weeks too.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried several times to begin to speak, but could not.
-- Even now, in the short time she had been in the nursery, the English governess and Matrona Philimonovna had succeeded in putting several questions to her, which did not admit of delay, and which only she could answer: "What were the children to put on for their walk?
-- And returning to her own room, in terror before the unknown future, she, too, like Kitty, repeated several times in her heart, "Lord, have pity; Lord, have pity; Lord, have pity."
-- Vronsky gave his mother his arm; but just as they were getting out of the carriage several men ran suddenly by with panic-stricken faces.
-- His mother had several times taken his hand from it, but the fat little hand went back to the button again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe I'm honest, monsieur, but, to be outspoken, I've had several trades.
-- His breakfast consisted of a side-dish, a broiled fish with Reading sauce, a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, and a morsel of Cheshire cheese, the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous.
-- Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning.
-- The papers and clubs were full of the affair, and everywhere people were discussing the probabilities of a successful pursuit; and the Reform Club was especially agitated, several of its members being Bank officials.
-- Mr. Fogg, after bidding good-bye to his whist partners, left the steamer, gave his servant several errands to do, urged it upon him to be at the station promptly at eight, and, with his regular step, which beat to the second, like an astronomical clock, directed his steps to the passport office.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there's several things you might turn to when you finish science.
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