实用口语:你知道英语中“数词”的夸张作用吗？

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　　一. 日常生活用语
        　　1.A thousand thanks./ Thanks a million.
        　　不胜感谢
        　　2.He complains, and with millions of reasons.
        　　他有千万条理由可以抱怨。
        　　3.I beg your thousand pardons.
        　　请你千万要原谅。
        　　4.He is sitting here, but his mind is a thousand miles.
        　　他人在心不在。
        　　5.Now haven't I told you athousand times you are not to make so much noise
here!
        　　我对你讲一千遍了，叫你不要在这里吵，你当耳边风啊!
        　　6.It is one chance in a hundred.
        　　这是百年一遇的机会。
        　　二. 文学作品中
        　　1.The very name of Mr.Crossett seemed to bring up a thousand memories of
when I was a boy, of my friends, and of my mother, now dead.
        　　一看到克罗希特先生的名字，许多往事好像一起涌上心头，使我想起了幼时的情景，想起了朋友们，想起了现在已去世的母亲。
        　　2.When she takes an idea firmly into her head,even if the walls are ten
thousand feet high,she can not be prevented from carrying it out.
        　　她一旦打定主意，那就是万丈高墙也挡不住她去实现它。
        　　3.You've said it forty times already, so why can't you say "Yes" forty
million times more?
        　　你说“是的”已经说了四十次了，你再说它四千万次又何妨呢?
        　　4.Stand still in Shanghai for two minutes and then millions of people will
rush at you like pins at a magnet.
        　　在上海，只要你在那里站上两分钟，千百万人就会向你涌来，犹如磁铁吸住了无数的针棒。