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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now, friends," said Lord Glenarvan, "let us go on with our investigations, for we are on the track of a great catastrophe, and the lives of several human beings depend on our sagacity.
-- Paganel, DISTRAIT as usual, was flung several times before he succeeded in bestriding his good steed, but once in the saddle, his inseparable telescope on his shoulder-belt, he held on well enough, keeping his feet fast in the stirrups, and trusting entirely to the sagacity of his beast.
-- In exchange for seven ready saddled horses of the Argentine breed, 100 pounds of CHARQUI, or dried meat, several measures of rice, and leather bottles for water, the Indians agreed to take twenty ounces of gold as they could not get wine or rum, which they would have preferred, though they were perfectly acquainted with the value of gold.
-- In pursuing the course the travelers had laid down for themselves, they had several times crossed the routes over the plains in common use, but had struck into none of them.
-- It would spare them several hours' suffering and anxiety."
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：
-- It gives us the basis for several deductions.'
-- There were several Mortimers, but only one who could be our visitor.
-- It is one of several indications which en-abled me to fix the date.'
-- Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles's health has for some time been impaired, and points especially to some affection of the heart, manifesting itself in changes of colour, breathlessness, and acute attacks of nervous depression.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 3Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her mind became capable of some other exertion than that of heightening its affliction by melancholy remembrances, she was impatient to be gone, and indefatigable in her inquiries for a suitable dwelling in the neighbourhood of Norland; for to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible.
-- But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
-- Edward had been staying several weeks in the house before he engaged much of Mrs. Dashwood's attention; for she was, at that time, in such affliction as rendered her careless of surrounding objects.
-- He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was moonlight and every body was full of engagements.
-- It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour; but one evening, Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed,"We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His fingers bore several rings--one, the ever-enduring heavy seal--and from his vest dangled a neat gold watch chain, from which was suspended the secret insignia of the Order of Elks.
-- "Well, I'm going to be there several weeks.
-- At last, after several blocks of walking, she felt that this would not do, and began to look about again, though without relaxing her pace.
-- Several pedestrians out of the hurrying throng which filled the sidewalks passed about her as she paused, hesitating.
-- She walked by this institution several times hesitating, but, finding herself unobserved, faltered past the screen door and stood humble waiting.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shadings have not been done in a hap- hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
-- I studied awhile and see my chance; then I says: 'Well, I see the niggers go in there several times.'
-- Several of them jumped for him and begged him not to talk that way to an old man and a preacher.
-- The doctor and several said 'Shucks!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before starting out, the officers called out to several fishermen passing by in a boat and said to them: "Take care of this little fellow who has been hurt.
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