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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How many people do you wish to bring with you?"
-- Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Herbert attentively examined this land, on which they might perhaps have to live many long years; on which indeed they might even die, should it be out of the usual track of vessels, as was likely to be the case.
-- I think some branches will be very useful in stopping up these openings, through which the wind shrieks like so many fiends."
-- But if the rock-pigeon is good to eat, its eggs must be excellent, and we will soon see how many they may have left in their nests!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- One night I had roamed into the City, and was walking slowly on in my usual way, musing upon a great many things, when I was arrested by an inquiry, the purport of which did not reach me, but which seemed to be addressed to myself, and was preferred in a soft sweet voice that struck me very pleasantly.
-- When she had knocked twice or thrice there was a noise as if some person were moving inside, and at length a faint light appeared through the glass which, as it approached very slowly, the bearer having to make his way through a great many scattered articles, enabled me to see both what kind of person it was who advanced and what kind of place it was through which he came.
-- It is true that in many respects I am the child, and she the grown person that you have seen already.
-- What could take him from home by night, and every night!I called up all the strange tales I had ever heard of dark and secret deeds committed in great towns and escaping detection for a long series of years; wild as many of these stories were, I could not find one adapted to this mystery, which only became the more impenetrable, in proportion as I sought to solve it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Agrippina Petrovna had traveled many years abroad with Nekhludoff's mother, and had acquired the manners of a lady.
-- He had many reasons for, and as many against, marriage.
-- So that there were as many reasons for as there were against marriage in general and marrying Missy in particular.
-- As to the statement of the defense that Maslova was drawn into a vicious life by an imaginary (he pronounced the word imaginary with particular virulence) man, he could say that all facts rather pointed to her being the seducer of many victims who were unfortunate enough to fall into her hands.
-- And before his imagination arose that common phenomenon of the appearance of a long absent, beloved face, which, after the first shock produced by the external changes which have taken place during the long absence, gradually becomes the same as it was many years ago--all the past changes disappear, and before the spiritual eyes stands forth the main expression of the peculiar spiritual individuality.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
-- "Within the big valves of the door which were open and broken we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows.
-- Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.
-- In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
-- The most were masses of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.'
-- And a great many voices all said together ('like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), 'Don't keep him waiting, child!Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!'
-- "The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings."
-- 'You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise.'
-- 'Then I like the Carpenter best if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus.'
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