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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few unrecognizable bodies lay on the slope of the embankment, but from that blazing mass no living thing could be saved.
-- The night passed without inconvenience beneath a vast mass of bushy ferns, under which enormous bats, properly called flying foxes, were flapping about.
-- But the rays of the sun soon broke through the watery mass and melted it away.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gavrila Ardalionovitch was still sitting in the study, bur-ied in a mass of papers.
-- One of these cannibals, who had reached a good age, declared of his own free will that during the course of his long and mis-erable life he had personally killed and eaten, in the most profound secrecy, sixty monks, not to mention several chil-dren; the number of the latter he thought was about six, an insignificant total when compared with the enormous mass of ecclesiastics consumed by him.
-- On a small table at the bedside glittered a mass of diamonds, torn off and thrown down anyhow.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when a goat-herd from some high post watches a storm drive over the deep before the west wind black as pitch is the offing and a mighty whirlwind draws towards him, so that he is afraid and drives his flock into a cave even thus did the ranks of stalwart youths move in a dark mass to battle under the Ajaxes, horrid with shield and spear.
-- The Trojans are fighting stubbornly and without ceasing at the ships; look where you may you cannot see from what quarter the rout of the Achaeans is coming; they are being killed in a confused mass and the battle-cry ascends to heaven; let us think, if counsel can be of any use, what we had better do; but I do not advise our going into battle ourselves, for a man cannot fight when he is wounded.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt a muscular chest, and in another moment the whole mass of struggling, excited men shot out into the crowded hall.
-- "That shoulder's a mass of bruises as it is."
-- They ran in the direction of my lodging, and looking back down a street I saw a mass of black smoke streaming up above the roofs and telephone wires.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the darkest corner of the hut sat a shapeless mass of darkness that grunted 'Hey!'
-- Around this struggled a mass of black figures.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the sum-merhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While in view of their admir-ing comrades, the same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow up the liv-ing mass which had slowly entered its bosom.
-- The very slightness of the defense was its chief merit, for no one thought of disturbing a mass of brush, which all of them believed, in that moment of hurry and confusion, had been accidentally raised by the hands of their own party.
-- While the eyes of the sisters were endeavoring to catch glimpses through the trees, of the flood of golden glory which formed a glittering halo around the sun, tinging here and there with ruby streaks, or bordering with narrow edg-ings of shining yellow, a mass of clouds that lay piled at no great distance above the western hills, Hawkeye turned suddenly and pointing upward toward the gorgeous heav-ens, he spoke: 'Yonder is the signal given to man to seek his food and natural rest,' he said; 'better and wiser would it be, if he could understand the signs of nature, and take a lesson from the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field!Our night, however, will soon be over, for with the moon we must be up and moving again.
-- Like all that passing and gloomy scene, the low basin, however, quickly melted in the darkness, and became blended with the mass of black objects in the rear of the travelers.
-- The mass of women and children stopped, and hovered together like alarmed and fluttering birds.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Facts were nothing to him, for beneath the mass of irrelevant incidents he looked for something significant to himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could easily distinguish a confused mass of great trees, which extended beyond the limits of their view.
-- The cliff, as has been said, rose to a height of three hundred feet, but the mass was unbroken throughout, and even at its base, scarcely washed by the sea, it did not offer the smallest fissure which would serve as a dwelling.
-- It then became necessary to leave the smoking mass to cool, and during this time Neb and Pencroft, guided by Cyrus Harding, brought, on a hurdle made of interlaced branches, loads of carbonate of lime and common stones, which were very abundant, to the north of the lake.
-- Using the mechanism which consisted of a frame, cords of fiber and counterpoise, he threw into the mass an abundance of air, which by raising the temperature also concurred with the chemical transformation to produce in time pure iron.
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