countless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 无数的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long stretches of prairie, known as the "Low Level Plains," next met their gaze, dotted with countless sheep, and shepherds' huts.
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：
-- At every turn Baskerville gave an exclamation of delight, look-ing eagerly about him and asking countless questions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of such people there are countless numbers in this world far more even than appear.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- BOOK I ing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that Sbrought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
-- They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wild-fire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.
-- As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them.
-- So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defence of his fellow-citi-zens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy though he had given much for her: he had given a hundred-head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How high it was from the ground, how many steps it had, where he would be stood, how he would be touched, 497whether the touching hands would be dyed red, which way his face would be turned, whether he would be the first, or might be the last: these and many similar questions, in nowise directed by his will, obtruded themselves over and over again, countless times.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mart, my son," he roared, "do you realize that in this, what some might call a sordid task, we are learning things that will enable us to heal the bodies and comfort the souls of countless lost unhappy folks?"
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washingtonstreets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a pathcalled the Peachtree Trail.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On all sides were capes and promontories and enormous cliffs, partially worn by the eternal breaking of the waves, through countless ages!And as I gazed from side to side, the mighty rocks faded away like a fleecy film of cloud.
-- They grew in countless thousands--the light could not make its way through their massive substance, and beneath them reigned a gloomy and mystic darkness.
-- My dream was of countless ages before the existence of man.
-- Had a soil of very peculiar nature, like that of the cemetery of St. Michel at Bordeaux, preserved it during countless ages?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As though a criminal should be chained in a stationary boat on a deep clear river, condemned, whatever countless leagues of water flowed past him, always to see the body of the fellow-creature he had drowned lying at the bottom, immovable, and unchangeable, except as the eddies made it broad or long, now expanding, now contracting its terrible lineaments; so Arthur, below the shifting current of transparent thoughts and fancies which were gone and succeeded by others as soon as come, saw, steady and dark, and not to be stirred from its place, the one subject that he endeavoured with all his might to rid himself of, and that he could not fly from.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
-- With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!
-- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea.
-- Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine man脜聯uvre with the lance called pitchpoling.
-- And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of, by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this countless host to the present human population of the globe.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The letter F had been likewise invariably brought forward, and found productive of such countless jokes, that its character as the wittiest letter in the alphabet had been long established with Elinor.
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