arithmetic是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 算术， 四则运算adj. 算术的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, prince, your arithmetic is not up to much, or else you are mighty clever at it, though you affect the air of a simpleton,' said Lebedeff's nephew.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Hundred and seventeen," chuckled another old gentleman, given to mental arithmetic and little conversation, who had hitherto sat unobserved in a corner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
-- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
-- 'Father, if you had known, when we were last together here, what even I feared while I strove against it as it has been my task from infancy to strive against every natural prompting that has arisen in my heart; if you had known that there lingered in my breast, sensibilities, affections, weaknesses capable of being cherished into strength, defying all the calculations ever made by man, and no more known to his arithmetic than his Creator is, would you have given me to the husband whom I am now sure that I hate?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It does not require great knowledge of arithmetic to know that twenty-eight times two hundred feet makes five thousand six hundred feet in all (more than an English mile).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his epistolary communication, as in his dialogues and discourses on the great question to which it related, Mr Dorrit surrounded the subject with flourishes, as writing-masters embellish copy-books and ciphering-books: where the titles of the elementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and other calligraphic recreations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and bodies into ecstasies of pen and ink.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's my small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditch's navigator, and Daboll's arithmetic go.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the books was a very large volume, an arithmetic text, heavily bound in leather.
-- "With this book," and the Marionette picked up the arithmetic text to show it to the officer.
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