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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
-- Upon my arrival in New York several persons did me the honour of consulting me on the phenomenon in question.
-- "Very well, my worthy harpooner, if some vertebrate, several hundred yards long, and large in proportion, can maintain itself in such depths of those whose surface is represented by millions of square inches, that is by tens of millions of pounds, we must estimate the pressure they undergo.
-- The monster emerged some fathoms from the water, and then threw out that very intense but mysterious light mentioned in the report of several captains.
-- Several times the animal let us gain upon it. "We shall catch it!we shall catch it!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, and living a studio life.
-- Several men strolled out into the garden.
-- "He is several generations of youngness at one go.
-- He sees himself reflected in the neighbouring opinion, like in a Brocken mist, several feet taller on the strength of the pianoforte, and he is satisfied.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated.
-- Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway, and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-coloured robes and shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and laughing speech.
-- The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments.
-- Three several times, as I scanned the slope, I saw white figures.
-- "In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little 'Oh!'
-- The Garden of Live Flowers'I should see the garden far better,' said Alice to herself, 'if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it at least, no, it doesn't do that ' (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), 'but I suppose it will at last.
-- There was silence in a moment, and several of the pink daisies turned white.
-- She thought that in all her life she had never seen soldiers so uncertain on their feet: they were always tripping over something or other, and whenever one went down, several more always fell over him, so that the ground was soon covered with little heaps of men.
-- 'I've cut several slices already, but they always join on again!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he passed his hand over his eyes several times and at last turned back into the house.
-- It was tattooed in several places.
-- Some of the men who had been to field-work on the far side of the Admiral Benbow remembered, besides, to have seen several strangers on the road, and taking them to be smugglers, to have bolted away; and one at least had seen a little lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole.
-- And the short and the long of the matter was, that while we could get several who were willing enough to ride to Dr. Livesey's, which lay in another direction, not one would help us to defend the inn.
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
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