dollar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (美国， 加拿大等国货币单位) 美元， 加元，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Mr. Tozer valued it at one dollar and ninety, but the progressive Bert at scarce more than one-fifty.)
-- This treasure cost six cents a bottle to make and a dollar over the counter, and the name of Dawson Hunziker was never connected with it.
-- "As we're putting up the money--I don't want to be a tightwad but after all, a dollar is a dollar--if we furnish the dough, we've got to decide the best way to spend it."
-- But more dismaying was the slimy trail of the dollar which he beheld in Pickerbaugh's most ardent eloquence.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And naturally the British aristocracysympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.
-- I wouldn't besurprised if I got a dollar a pound."
-- "You'll get a dollar a pound when elephants roost in trees!"
-- An' she gib me a dollar an' tellme ter do jes' whut de w'ite gempmums tell me.
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：
-- He disbelieved in the dollar ut-terly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As long as THE SPREAD EAGLE paid her a dollar a col-umn for her 'rubbish', as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- " holding up a broad bright coin to the sun "it is a sixteen dollar piece, men.
-- Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went to one of the great department stores and bought herself one, using a dollar and a quarter of her small store to pay for it.
-- She had had no word from any quarter, she had spent a dollar of her precious sum in procuring food and paying car fare.
-- "I'll give you a dollar more if you make good time."
-- One dollar fifty and two dollars seemed to be the most common figures upon this most tastefully printed bill of fare.
-- He could not down the cowardly thought that this man had something better and would stay to the end, drawing his last dollar into the pot, should he choose to go so far.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with.
-- Here's a dollar for you.
-- (I reckoned I wouldn't say noth-ing about the dollar I got from the judge.)
-- I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents.'
-- Well, he sot up a bank, en say anybody dat put in a dollar would git fo' dollars mo' at de en' er de year.
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