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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- With these were intertwined undulating snakes of green, and behind these was a broad mass of lesser light.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The good soul, therefore, took Victorine to mass every Sunday, and to confession once a fortnight, thinking that, in any case, she would bring up her ward to be devout.
-- Father Goriot had unwound his coil of rope; he had covered the table with a blanket, and was now employed in rolling the flattened mass of silver into a bar, an operation which he performed with marvelous dexterity.
-- said Eugene to himself, as he remembered how he had watched his neighbor work the silver vessel into a shapeless mass that night.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I compassionat-ed him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only Latin he knew was the responses of the Mass and the only history themanifold wrongs of Ireland.
-- If themoney it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficientlytroubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
-- "That," answered Scarlett, pointing at the fluffy mass of green flowered muslin.
-- Turning she saw a tall handsome woman with a bold face and a mass of red hair, toored to be true.
-- Melanie rustled in from her room,a worried frown puckering her forehead, a brush in her hands, her usually tidy black hair, freed of its net, fluffing abouther face in a mass of tiny curls and waves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was led forth, and a priest was brought who was to say a mass for his soul.
-- The parson went to the crowd, and declared that the mass had been said.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the king, when he is highest provoked, and most determined to press a city to rubbish, orders the island to descend with great gentleness, out of a pretence of tenderness to his people, but, indeed, for fear of break-ing the adamantine bottom; in which case, it is the opinion of all their philosophers, that the loadstone could no longer hold it up, and the whole mass would fall to the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Judging him by Nature's evidence, he was above the mass in very little but the stage on which he stood.
-- It appeared from the little this man said to those about him, which was quickly repeated all over the circle, that the lost man had fallen upon a mass of crumbled rubbish with which the pit was half choked up, and that his fall had been further broken by some jagged earth at the side.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast mass of this combustible, the field of which as yet is utterly unexplored, would suffice to warm Iceland for a whole century.
-- Through the newly formed openings, escaped the marvelous mass of basaltic stones with which the plain we were now crossing was covered.
-- After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
-- All take their rise in the fierce action of interior fires, and to believe that the central mass did not remain in a state of liquid fire, white hot, was simply and purely madness.
-- "But," I exclaimed, "our clothes, this mass of cord and ladders--who will undertake to carry them down?"
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