many是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 许多的, 多的pron. 许多人或物, 许多,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Altogether he had made nearly a hundred and twenty; but many had died, and others like the writh-ing Footless Thing of which he had told me had come by violent ends.
-- The red body of the wretched little beast was rent to pieces, many of the ribs stripped white, and the backbone indisputably gnawed.
-- The incident seemed merely one more of many horrible things.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.
-- 'As many times as there are nuts on that palm,' said Mow-gli, who, naturally, could not count.
-- Many of the wolves that looked thee over when thou wast brought to the Coun-cil first are old too, and the young wolves believe, as Shere Khan has taught them, that a man-cub has no place with the Pack.
-- 'The jungle has many tongues.
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:
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- With the high plain that there inter-posed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adven-turer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river be-came navigable to the tide.
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- A third wore trappings and arms of an officer of the staff; while the rest, from the plainness of the housings, and the traveling mails with which they were encumbered, were evidently fitted for the reception of as many menials, who were, seeming-ly, already waiting the pleasure of those they served.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such is the general purport of this legendary supersti-tion, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
-- Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
-- In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing- master of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- Thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and 'sugared suppositions,' he journeyed along the sides of a range of hills which look out upon some of the goodliest scenes of the mighty Hudson.
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:
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
-- And if I may judge from the reviews, many of these books are well and carefully written; much thought has gone to their composition; to some even has been given the anxious labour of a lifetime.
-- When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how much he was likely to make out of it.
-- There are bosoms on which so many tears have been shed that I cannot bedew them with mine.
-- Of course, I had a great many interests that he didn't share."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But while so many catastrophes were taking place on land and at sea, a drama not less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air.
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