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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, the moon disappeared then, and left us in total darkness.
-- Total length thirty five yards, or one hundred and five feet.
-- When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part of her total capacity."
-- Just then the luminous globe that lighted the cell went out, and left us in total darkness.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, "Bones, his pile."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At half-past nine, Harding and his companions glided from different directions into the square, which the gas-lamps, extinguished by the wind, had left in total obscurity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Two good beds, one-and-sixpence; supper and beer one shilling; total two shillings and sixpence,' replied the Valiant Soldier.
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：
-- How long the tired Duncan lay in this insensible state he never knew himself, but his slumbering visions had been long lost in total forgetfulness, when he was awakened by a light tap on the shoulder.
-- From the total inability of the scout to address the Hu-rons in their own language, he was compelled to trust the conversation entirely to David.
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