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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances.
-- "Not an instant to lose; lock in my trunk all travelling utensils, coats, shirts, and stockings without counting, as many as you can, and make haste."
-- "As a whaler I have followed many a cetacean, harpooned a great number, and killed several; but, however strong or well-armed they may have been, neither their tails nor their weapons would have been able even to scratch the iron plates of a steamer."
-- Very well, when you dive, Ned, as many times 32 feet of water as there are above you, so many times does your body bear a pressure equal to that of the atmosphere, that is to say, 15 lb.
-- Ah!my brave Ned, do you know how many square inches you carry on the surface of your body?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moving with her artist friends in different kinds of society, Gudrun had already come to know a good many people of repute and standing.
-- "Not many people are anything at all," he answered, forced to go deeper than he wanted to.
-- This day had gone by like so many more, in an activity that was like a trance.
-- Getting so many more thousands of tons of coal out of the earth every day.
-- "A good many people are still waiting for the rabbit and the fire to cook it."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is a darkskinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose.
-- It is strange,' I began, in the interval of swallowing one cup of tea and receiving another 'it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff; yet, I'll venture to say, that, surrounded by your family, and with your amiable lady as the presiding genius over your home and heart My amiable lady!'
-- She did not know, she answered: she had only lived there a year or two; and they had so many queer goings on, she could not begin to be curious.
-- It was well he did, for the whole hill back was one billowy, white ocean; the swells and falls not indicating corresponding rises and depressions in the ground: many pits, at least, were filled to a level; and entire ranges of mounds, the refuse of the quarries, blotted from the chart which my yesterday's walk left pictured in my mind.
-- Yes,' I remarked, 'you've seen a good many alterations, I suppose?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Soon after, Dr. Livesey's horse came to the door and he rode away, but the captain held his peace that evening, and for many evenings to come.
-- On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for him, and the doctor was suddenly taken up with a case many miles away and was never near the house after my father's death.
-- The hamlet lay not many hundred yards away, though out of view, on the other side of the next cove; and what greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite direction from that whence the blind man had made his appearance and whither he had presumably returned.
-- We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken.
-- Underneath there was an old boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt on many a harbour-bar.
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