vocabulary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 词汇， 词汇量； 词汇表，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：
-- Paganel's admiration increased with every step, and he had nearly exhausted his vocabulary of adjectives by his loud exclamations, to the astonishment of the Patagonian, to whom the birds, and the swans, and the prairies were every day things.
-- This simply implies either that the imagination of geographers is not infinite, or that their vocabulary of proper names is very poor."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, his vocabulary was altogether too limited to express his impressions.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fat old man and dirty and unvirtuous was the Doc; his grammar was doubtful, his vocabulary alarming, and his references to his rival, good Dr. Needham, were scandalous; yet he invoked in Martin a vision of making chemicals explode with much noise and stink and of seeing animalcules that no boy in Elk Mills had ever beheld.
-- The moment the urgent Martin showed that he was stirred by her graces, she went at his clothes--his corduroys and soft collars and eccentric old gray felt hat--at his vocabulary and his taste in fiction, with new and more patronizing vigor.
-- Tubbs came in now and then, found him busy, patted his shoulder, said something which sounded like French and might even have been French, and gave vague encouragement; while Gottlieb imperturbably told him to go ahead, and now and then stirred him by showing his own note-books (they were full of figures and abbreviations, stupid-seeming as invoices of calico) or by speaking of his own work, in a vocabulary as heathenish as Tibetan magic: "Arrhenius and Madsen have made a contribution toward bringing immunity reactions under the mass action law, but I hope to show that antigen-antibody combinations occur in stoicheiometric proportions when certain variables are held constant."
-- "Well, I have enough vocabulary to express the idea that I'm thinking of joining Terry."
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- But neither here nor elsewhere do I pretend to give his exact words; his vocabulary was small, and he had no gift for framing sentences, so that one had to piece his meaning together out of interjections, the expression of his face, gestures and hackneyed phrases.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer exhausted the vocabulary of abuse, and failed to find words that did justice to the banker's iniquitous conduct; but while they heaped execrations on the millionaire, Victorine's words were as gentle as the moan of the wounded dove, and affection found expression even in the cry drawn from her by pain.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He assured me 'that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest compu-tation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech.'
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