million是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. /n. 百万, 百万个,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- observed the clerk, while his face assumed an expression of great deference and servil-ity if not of absolute alarm: 'what, a son of that very Semen Rogojin hereditary honourable citizen who died a month or so ago and left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- 'And how do YOU know that he left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- 'And now you'll have a million roubles, at least good-ness gracious me!'
-- A few only, of whom Lebedeff made one, stood their ground; he had contrived to walk side by side with Rogojin, for he quite un-derstood the importance of a man who had a fortune of a million odd roubles, and who at this moment carried a hun-dred thousand in his hand.
-- I congratulate you, prince; you may receive a million and a half of roubles, perhaps more; I don't know.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The world seemed to splash into a million whirling specks of light, and subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the lowest counting there were over a million seals on the beach old seals, mother seals, tiny babies, and hollus-chickie, fighting, scuffling, bleating, crawling, and playing together going down to the sea and coming up from it in gangs and regiments, lying over every foot of ground as far as the eye could reach, and skirmishing about in brigades through the fog.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Yet, father, if I had been stone blind; if I had groped my way by my sense of touch, and had been free, while I knew the shapes and surfaces of things, to exercise my fancy somewhat, in regard to them; I should have been a million times wiser, happier, more loving, more contented, more innocent and human in all good respects, than I am with the eyes I have.
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:
-- Michaelis had the ear of a few million people, probably; and, being a hopeless outsider, he would no doubt be grateful to be asked down to Wragby at this juncture, when the rest of the smart world was cutting him.
-- 'Oh, how I wish I could stay here with you, and Wragby were a million miles away!It's Wragby I'm going away from really.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What secular want could the million or so of human beings whose daily labour, six days in the week, lay among these Arcadian objects, from the sweet sameness of which they had no escape between the cradle and the grave what secular want could they possibly have upon their seventh day?
-- 'With a million thanks,' said she, 'and my address upon my card in case of anything to be communicated personally, I will not send my love to the dear little thing for it might not be acceptable, and indeed there is no dear little thing left in the transformation so why do it but both myself and Mr F.'s Aunt ever wish her well and lay no claim to any favour on our side you may be sure of that but quite the other way for what she undertook to do she did and that is more than a great many of us do, not to say anything of her doing it as well as it could be done and I myself am one of them for I have said ever since I began to recover the blow of Mr F's death that I would learn the Organ of which I am extremely fond but of which I am ashamed to say I do not yet know a note, good evening!'
-- A million of excuses!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he had gone, she went to her little chapel, and sit-ting in the twilight, prayed for Beth, with streaming tears and an aching heart, feeling that a million turquoise rings would not console her for the loss of her gentle little sister.
-- Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would have given more real happi-ness then did the little sum that came to her in this wise.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
-- "Oh!spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man! and a black!and crazy! but methinks like-cures-like applies to him too; he grows so sane again."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh a million or more," said Hurstwood.
-- Thus one: "I have a million in my own right.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I wouldn' give a dern for a million un um.'
-- I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for HER, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.
-- He raised up, and blinked his eyes around, and says: 'Mars Sid, you'll say I's a fool, but if I didn't b'lieve I see most a million dogs, er devils, er some'n, I wisht I may die right heah in dese tracks.
-- Well, they was handsome and striped, and there warn't no harm in a million of them; but that nev-er made no difference to Aunt Sally; she despised snakes, be the breed what they might, and she couldn't stand them no way you could fix it; and every time one of them flopped down on her, it didn't make no difference what she was do-ing, she would just lay that work down and light out.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, how sorry I am!My poor, dear little Fairy!If I had a million I should run to her with it!But I have only fifty pennies.
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