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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That is true, Cyrus," replied the reporter, "but we have already examined all that mass of granite, and there is not a hole, not a cranny!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and then, a village with its modest spire, thatched roofs, and gable-ends, would peep out from among the trees; and, more than once, a distant town, with great church towers looming through its smoke, and high factories or workshops rising above the mass of houses, would come in view, and, by the length of time it lingered in the distance, show them how slowly they travelled.
-- The other old man was not behindhand with some moral reflections on this fruitful theme, and both adduced a mass of evidence, of such weight as to render it doubtful not whether the deceased was of the age suggested, but whether she had not almost reached the patriarchal term of a hundred.
-- This turnkey had given him to understand that he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaimable, and had never occupied apartments in that mansion before.
-- A mass of timber on its head, carved into the dim and distant semblance of a cocked hat, together with a representation of a star on the left breast and epaulettes on the shoulders, denoted that it was intended for the effigy of some famous admiral; but, without those helps, any observer might have supposed it the authentic portrait of a distinguished merman, or great sea-monster.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval between early and late mass Nekhludoff left the church.
-- Now something snuffled, then it crackled, and again the thin layer of ice resounded like a mass of crushed glass.
-- The fog was so dense that when five feet away he saw only a darkening mass from which a red, seemingly large, light of the lamp was reflected.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway, and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-coloured robes and shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and laughing speech.
-- What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour?
-- Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me.
-- At that the squat substantial-looking mass swayed like a bough shaken by the wind.
-- I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 34 And LastHE next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia.
-- And think what destruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel."
-- I caught a glimpse of a black mass disappearing in the east, its beacon lights dying out in the distance.
-- This fluid mass comprises two billions two hundred and fifty millions of cubic miles, forming a spherical body of a diameter of sixty leagues, the weight of which would be three quintillions of tons.
-- This mass of fluid is equal to about the quantity of water which would be discharged by all the rivers of the earth in forty thousand years.
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：
-- Her long, pale face, that she carried lifted up, somewhat in the Rossetti fashion, seemed almost drugged, as if a strange mass of thoughts coiled in the darkness within her, and she was never allowed to escape.
-- His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness.
-- In the mass they fascinated him, as machinery fascinated him.
-- She felt she was sinking into one mass with the rest all so close and intermingled and breathless.
-- Gudrun's apprehensive horror of people in the mass unnerved Ursula.
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