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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These formed the nucleus of nine provinces, four in the North Island and five in the southern island, with a total population of 184,346 inhabitants on the 30th of June, 1864."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The total value of the estate was close on to a million.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sum I now ask, added to what I have borrowed already, will make a total of about thirty-five roubles, so you see I shall have enough to pay him and confound him!if he wants interest, he shall have that, too!
-- 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.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The island, which was of irreg-ular outline and lay low upon the wide sea, had a total area, I suppose, of seven or eight square miles.
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：
-- His attention was, however, bestowed in vain; for with the disappearance of Uncas, every sign of the adventurers had been lost, leaving him in total uncertainty of their fate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance.
-- (He changed the leg he had crossed over the other, and tried the calculation again, but could not bring out the total at less.)
-- Have the kindness to advise me, a total stranger, where, and money is a matter of perfect indifference until to-morrow.
-- 'Pa, I am sorry to say,' returned Miss Fanny, who had by this time succeeded in goading herself into a state of much ill-usage and grievance, which she was often at great pains to do: 'that I believe her to be a friend of that very objectionable and unpleasant person, who, with a total absence of all delicacy, which our experience might have led us to expect from him, insulted us and outraged our feelings in so public and wilful a manner on an occasion to which it is understood among us that we will not more pointedly allude.'
-- 'Mr Dorrit,' said Flora, 'you are very kind in giving me permission and highly natural it seems to me that you should be kind for though more stately I perceive a likeness filled out of course but a likeness still, the object of my intruding is my own without the slightest consultation with any human being and most decidedly not with Arthur pray excuse me Doyce and Clennam I don't know what I am saying Mr Clennam solus for to put that individual linked by a golden chain to a purple time when all was ethereal out of any anxiety would be worth to me the ransom of a monarch not that I have the least idea how much that would come to but using it as the total of all I have in the world and more.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the trifles cost more than one would imagine, and when she cast up her accounts at the end of the month the sum total rather scared her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I may as well say en passant, as the French remark that I myself that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink ""Water!"
-- In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My total ignorance of the connection must plead my apology.'
-- They then sat down, and when her inquiries after Ros-ings were made, seemed in danger of sinking into total silence.
-- The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three young-er sisters, and occasionally even by your father.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.
-- "This," said he, "cannot hold; but a change, a total change of sentiments No, no, do not desire it; for when the romantic refinements of a young mind are obliged to give way, how frequently are they succeeded by such opinions as are but too common, and too dangerous!I speak from experience.
-- "I confess," replied Elinor, "that every circumstance except ONE is in favour of their engagement; but that ONE is the total silence of both on the subject, and with me it almost outweighs every other."
-- "I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what the deception originated.
-- She remembered too, her own surprise at the time, at his mentioning nothing farther of those friends, at his total silence with respect even to their names.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
-- It was due wholly to her natural manner and total lack of self-consciousness.
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