mass是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大量， 众多； 团， 块； (pl. ) 群众， 民众； 质量，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The uncontrol-lable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered, would have polluted the air, even if poverty and depriva-tion had not loaded it with their intangible impurities; the two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.
-- 166 A tale of two citiesIX The Gorgon's Head t was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur Ithe Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace be-fore the principal door.
-- Saint Antoine had been, that morning, a vast dusky mass of scarecrows heaving to and fro, with frequent gleams of light above the billowy heads, where steel blades and bayo-nets shone in the sun.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took off her kerchief and her hat, and catching it in a lock of her black hair, which was a mass of curls, she tossed her head and shook her hair down.
-- As always happened with him during his solitude, a mass of ideas and feelings had been accumulating within him, which he could not communicate to those about him.
-- Levin looked about him to right and to left, and there, just facing him against the dusky blue sky above the confused mass of tender shoots of the aspens, he saw the flying bird.
-- "Well, but what did you buy this mass of things for?"
-- Sergey Ivanovitch was all the while admiring the beauty of the woods, which were a tangled mass of leaves, pointing out to his brother now an old lime tree on the point of flowering, dark on the shady side, and brightly spotted with yellow stipules, now the young shoots of this year's saplings brilliant with emerald.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: English, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed so many floating parterres.
-- The locomotive, slackening its speed, tried to clear the way with its cow-catcher; but the mass of animals was too great.
-- On the right rose the lower spurs of the mountainous mass which extends southward to the sources of the Arkansas River, one of the great tributaries of the Missouri.
-- It stopped at last, and Mudge, pointing to a mass of roofs white with snow, said: "We have got there!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Doc's step was much livelier when he loomed into the office, a gray mass of a man with a gray mass of mustache, a form vast and unreal and undefined, like a cloud taking for the moment a likeness of humanity.
-- Yet the man stood out so bleakly from a mass of students who could neither complete their experiments nor ponder nor do anything save smoke pipes and watch football-practice that Martin loved him while he hated him, and almost meekly he followed him into Digamma Pi.
-- "Oh, they have, have they!They may be faded but-- Will you be so good as to tell me what that pale white mass is up there?"
-- Skittering through a garage alley they came out on the mass of Zenith General Hospital, a block long, five stories of bleak windows with infrequent dim blotches of light.
-- He was sorry for the bruised, yellowed, suffering patients, always changing as to individuals and never changing as a mass of drab pain, but when he had thrice dressed a wound, he had had enough; he wanted to go on to new experiences.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.
-- But a whole mass of unsettled points and uncertainties remained.
-- A mass of people had gathered round, the police standing in front.
-- You are a feeble, nervous wretch, and a mass of whims, you're getting fat and lazy and can't deny yourself anything and I call that dirty because it leads one straight into the dirt.
-- The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of rac-es and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses,would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows.
-- Villainy isthe matter; baseness is the matter; deception, fraud, conspiracy, arethe matter; and the name of the whole atrocious mass is- HEEP!'
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