total是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 总数， 合计a. 总的， 全部的v. 合计， 总数达，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were severally examined and ap-praised by old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon the wall, and added them up into a total when he found there was nothing more to come.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * * * * 'I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an un-derground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The total number of his papers, in a brisk scientific realm where really clever people published five times a year, was not more than twenty-five in thirty years.
-- He drove out and back in his gasoline chariot, making the total distance of 48 miles in 79 minutes.
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：
-- I cannot have made a mistake in my reckoning, for the minute before your entrance I had finished my accounts and found the total correct.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was ready for her visitor some time before he ap-peared; but if this reflected at all upon his impatience, his sorrowful look and total want of spirits when he did come might redeem him.
-- Mrs. Weston had been shewing them all to him, and now he would shew them all to Emma; fortunate in having no other resemblance to a child, than in a total want of taste for what he saw, for he was slow, constant, and methodical. Before this second looking over was begun, however, Emma walked into the hall for the sake of a few moments' free observation of the entrance and ground-plot of the house and was hardly there, when Jane Fairfax ap-peared, coming quickly in from the garden, and with a look of escape. Little expecting to meet Miss Woodhouse so soon, there was a start at first; but Miss Woodhouse was the very person she was in quest of.
-- The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth to the hope, that, in time, he might gain her affection himself; but it had been no present hope he had only, in the momentary conquest of eagerness over judgment, aspired to be told that she did not forbid his attempt to attach her. The superior hopes which gradually opened were so much the more enchant-ing. The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! Within half an hour, he had passed from a thoroughly distressed state of mind, to something so like perfect happiness, that it could bear no other name.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well, let's try it," said Bathsheba, bounding from her seat with that total disregard of consistency which can be indulged in towards a dependent, and entering into the spirit of divination at once.
-- This place was his almonry and cloister in one: here, after looking to the feeding of his four-footed dependants, the celibate would walk and meditate of an evening till the moon's rays streamed in through the cobwebbed windows, or total darkness enveloped the scene.
-- The total number of sheep which had thus strayed and injured themselves so dangerously was fifty-seven.
-- All was in total darkness, as he had left it, and there still arose, as at the former time, the steady buzz of many snores.
-- "Well, I think this much, ma'am, as I told you years ago," said Oak, "that his life is a total blank whenever he isn't hoping for 'ee; but I can't suppose I hope that nothing so dreadful hangs on to it as you fancy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, 72 Frankensteindeclined the subject, alleging, in excuse, his total ignorance; and the conversation took a more general turn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Without expecting any thanks, or anything of the sort," resumed Camilla, "I have remained in that state, hours and hours, and Raymond is a witness of the extent to which I have choked, and what the total inefficacy of ginger has been, and I have been heard at the piano-forte tuner's across the street, where the poor mistaken children have even supposed it to be pigeons cooing at a distance,--and now to be told--" Here Camilla put her hand to her throat, and began to be quite chemical as to the formation of new combinations there.
-- "That's true, Pip; and unless you was to turn her out a set of shoes all four round,--and which I meantersay as even a set of shoes all four round might not be acceptable as a present, in a total wacancy of hoofs--""I don't mean that sort of remembrance, Joe; I don't mean a present."
-- I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully.
-- Yes, Joseph,' says you," here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, "'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six windows on this side of the door, six on that side; a total of twelve in this wing, a total of twelve in the other wing; four-and-twenty carried over to the back wings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And you are surprised at this total absence of springs?"
-- I did require a good night's rest, and I went off reflecting at the last moment that my perilous adventure in the interior of the earth, in total darkness, had lasted four days!
-- I keep on fearing, day after day, that the extraordinary electric phenomenon should become first obscured, and then go wholly out, leaving us in total darkness.
-- He looked like a man equally prepared to enjoy superfluity or total want.
-- The eider-down hunter simply shrugged his shoulders as a mark of total ignorance.
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