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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His interlocutor burst out laugh-ing several times at his answers; and more than ever, when to the question, ' whether he had been cured?'
-- I was a month or two with Lihachof after his father died, your excellency, and while he was knocking about he's in the debtor's prison now I was with him, and he couldn't do a thing without Lebedeff; and I got to know Nastasia Philipovna and several people at that time.'
-- He had made him-self indispensable in several quarters, amongst others in his department of the government; and yet it was a known fact that Fedor Ivanovitch Epanchin was a man of no education whatever, and had absolutely risen from the ranks.
-- Now, since Totski had, of late, been upon terms of great cordiality with Epanchin, which excellent relations were in-tensified by the fact that they were, so to speak, partners in several financial enterprises, it so happened that the for-mer now put in a friendly request to the general for counsel with regard to the important step he meditated.
-- There were several rumours afloat, before long, which upset Totski's equanimity a good deal, but we will not now stop to describe them; merely mentioning an instance or two.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nine heralds went crying about among them to stay their tumult and bid them listen to the kings, till at last they were got into their several places and ceased their clamour.
-- Divide your men, Agamemnon, into their several tribes and clans, that clans and tribes may stand by and help one another.
-- Let the heralds summon the people to gather at their several ships; we will then go about among the host, that we may begin fighting at once.'
-- The others took their several stations, each by his horses and the place where his arms were lying, while Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, put on his goodly armour.
-- He found Alexan-drus within the house, busied about his armour, his shield and cuirass, and handling his curved bow; there, too, sat Argive Helen with her women, setting them their several tasks; and as Hector saw him he rebuked him with words of scorn.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several other of the men folks had now entered the room, so that it was closely crowded.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- She was heavily laden, and I could make out as she drew nearer Montgomery's white-haired, broad-shouldered companion sitting cramped up with the dogs and several packing-cas- es in the stern sheets.
-- Then suddenly, far in front of me, I saw first one and then several figures emerg-ing from the bushes, Moreau, with his grey staghound, then Montgomery, and two others.
-- It killed several other things that it caught.
-- There were three Swine-men and a Swine-woman, a mare-rhinoceros-creature, and several other females whose sources I did not ascertain.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seal Lullaby All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- That which at first was only rumor, soon became certainty, as orders passed from the quarters of the commander-in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departure.
-- Small as it was, this uncommon engine had excited the curiosity of most of the Europeans in the camp, though several of the provincials were seen to handle it, not only without fear, but with the utmost familiarity.
-- These provincial terms are frequently put in the mouths of the speakers, according to their several conditions in life.
-- Three several times the scout raised his piece in mercy, and as often, prudence get-ting the better of his intention, it was again silently lowered.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, moreover, esteemed by the wom-en as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft,' in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.
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