multiply是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. [数,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:
-- "I am ready to satisfy you," replied Harry Grant; "but, you know, to multiply the chances of safety, I had inclosed three documents in the bottle, in three different languages.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beautiful as a goddess she wept and said, 'Patroclus, dearest friend, when I went hence I left you living; I return, O prince, to find you dead; thus do fresh sorrows multiply upon me one after the other.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No, captain, no, we shan't forget it," replied Pencroft; "and if ever I find one of those tobacco- seeds, which multiply by three hundred and sixty thousand, I assure you I won't throw it away!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, the ocean has indeed circulation, and to promote it, the Creator has caused things to multiply in it caloric, salt, and animalculae."
-- During the day a formidable troop of sharks accompanied us, terrible creatures, which multiply in these seas and make them very dangerous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Terrible detonations, like Heaven's artillery, began to multiply themselves with fearful intensity.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My dog, who was now grown old and crazy, and had found no spe-cies to multiply his kind upon, sat always at my right hand; and two cats, one on one side of the table and one on the other, expecting now and then a bit from my hand, as a mark of especial favour.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Why, you can figure it on your fingers!Granted that each piece gives you five hundred, multiply five hundred by five.
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