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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several pas-sages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
-- When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.
-- It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
-- Soon after this discovery, he became more thoughtful than usual for several days, and seemed much engrossed by one subject.
-- However, as it must be done, he had no choice but to do it; so, after attempting several letters, and failing in them all, he resolved to do it by word of mouth.
-- This had terrified the Home Secretary within an inch of his life, on several occasions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several times I thought of going out, but my uncle would have been angry at my absence.
-- My uncle had also been careful to lay in a goodly supply of tobacco, several flasks of very fine gunpowder, boxes of tinder, besides a large belt crammed full of notes and gold.
-- We were compelled to cross several little fjords, and at last came to a real gulf.
-- Several times I passed my hand across the rock hoping to find some trace of humidity--of the slightest percolation.
-- My uncle made several pauses in order to consult his compass.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several who would have been quite possible as lover, even Mick.
-- India, Egypt, then India again: the blind, thoughtless life with the horses: the colonel who had loved him and whom he had loved: the several years that he had been an officer, a lieutenant with a very fair chance of being a captain.
-- Unfortunately, on the back-board some-body had scribbled little sketches, and the initials, several times repeated: C. S. R. This, however, afforded no clue -until she broke into the hut, and found one of your books, an autobiography of the actress Judith, with your name, Con-stance Stewart Reid, on the front page.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thank you that Tattycoram was a name; and I have several times wondered at the oddity of it.'
-- The gentlemen prisoners, feeling themselves at a disadvantage, had for the most part retired, not to say sneaked, to their rooms; from the open windows of which some of them now complimented the doctor with whistles as he passed below, while others, with several stories between them, interchanged sarcastic references to the prevalent excitement.
-- They were pretty far divided, going their several ways, when the Plasterer called out, 'I say! sir!'
-- If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
-- It is true that the royal speech, at the close of such session, virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have through several laborious months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you have found out; and with the blessing of Providence upon the harvest (natural, not political), I now dismiss you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small-ness of the company made it necessary for the two principal actors to take several parts apiece, and they certainly de-served some credit for the hard work they did in learning three or four different parts, whisking in and out of various costumes, and managing the stage besides.
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