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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- To-night, Joe several times invited me, by the display of his fast diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread and butter on the other.
-- Instantly afterwards, the company were seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to his springing to his feet, turning round several times in an appalling spasmodic whooping-cough dance, and rushing out at the door; he then became visible through the window, violently plunging and expectorating, making the most hideous faces, and apparently out of his mind.
-- "'Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father several times; and then my mother she'd go out to work, and she'd say, "Joe," she'd say, "now, please God, you shall have some schooling, child," and she'd put me to school.
-- This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there went a re-port through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king's daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
-- After him 43came several others; but they had all the same luck, and all lost their lives in the same manner.
-- He did not take the huntsmen with him into the forest, and they were well pleased that he did not, for the wild boar had several times received them in such a manner that they had no inclination to lie in wait for him.
-- Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance; 291then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fin-gers.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had several times lent money to Mme.
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
-- Vauquer and the cook, listening, overheard several words affectionately spoken during the visit, which lasted for some time.
-- She retraced several of the letters, for her hand was trembling so that they were indistinct; then she signed the note with an initial C for "Claire de Bourgogne," and rang the bell.
-- For several minutes the silence remained unbroken till the law student became almost paralyzed with embarrassment, and was equally afraid to go or stay or speak a word.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my fa-ther had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
-- Several months passed in this manner.
-- I remained for several years their only child.
-- He asked me several questions con-cerning my progress in the different branches of science appertaining to natural philosophy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pork, the onlytrained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack andcareless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
-- As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie,no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
-- Evidently, she was not the only one to whom this idea occurred, for several of the boys were beginning to stickout their chins.
-- "Of course, it will mean fighting," said Charles, after several more embarrassed attempts.
-- He stuttered several times, closed his mouth and opened it again, and again became,geranium colored.
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