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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never once have my eyes been closed from the day your hands took the life of my son; I have grov-elled without ceasing in the mire of my stable-yard, making moan and brooding over my countless sorrows.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the 'holy lake' extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
-- To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the 'holy lake,' indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a soothing, luxurious, drowsy way of travelling, to lie inside that slowly-moving mountain, listening to the tinkling of the horses' bells, the occasional smacking of the carter's whip, the smooth rolling of the great broad wheels, the rattle of the harness, the cheery good-nights of passing travellers jogging past on little short-stepped horses all made pleasantly indistinct by the thick awning, which seemed made for lazy listening under, till one fell asleep!The very going to sleep, still with an indistinct idea, as the head jogged to and fro upon the pillow, of moving onward with no trouble or fatigue, and hearing all these sounds like dreamy music, lulling to the senses and the slow waking up, and finding one's self staring out through the breezy curtain half-opened in the front, far up into the cold bright sky with its countless stars, and downward at the driver's lantern dancing on like its namesake Jack of the swamps and marshes, and sideways at the dark grim trees, and forward at the long bare road rising up, up, up, until it stopped abruptly at a sharp high ridge as if there were no more road, and all beyond was sky and the stopping at the inn to bait, and being helped out, and going into a room with fire and candles, and winking very much, and being agreeably reminded that the night was cold, and anxious for very comfort's sake to think it colder than it was! What a delicious journey was that journey in the waggon.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- thought Nekhludoff, recalling Natalie as she had been before her marriage, and a tender feeling, woven of countless recollections of their childhood, rose in his breast toward her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You who have never seen the like can scarcely imagine what delicate and wonderful flowers countless years of culture had created.
-- For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.
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