fifty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 五十, 五十个,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Mrs. Charles Hamilton one hundred and fifty dollars in gold."
-- I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
-- "I have only fifty dollars but next month " "It would cost about two thousand dollars, Confederate money," he said with a grin at her woebegone expression.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Tell me directly what you've been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I'd have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
-- This was all I heard that night before my sister clutched me, as a slumberous offence to the company's eyesight, and assisted me up to bed with such a strong hand that I seemed to have fifty boots on, and to be dangling them all against the edges of the stairs.
-- And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
-- Now it appeared to him (Pumblechook) that if that capital were got into the business, through a sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in, by self or deputy, whenever he pleased, and examine the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property, which would be worthy of his attention.
-- Nevertheless, a hackney-coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy great-coat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here are fifty talers for you.
-- When the day dawned, therefore, the boy put his fifty talers into his pocket, and went forth on the great highway, and continually said to himself: 'If I could but shudder!If I could but shudder!'
-- 'If that is all that is wanted,' answered the 333youth, 'it is easily done; but if I learn how to shudder as fast as that, you shall have my fifty talers.
-- Then he sat down by his fire and fell asleep, and the next morning the man came to him and wanted to have the fifty talers, and said: 'Well do you know how to shudder?'
-- Then the man saw that he would not get the fifty talers that day, and went away saying: 'Such a youth has never come my way before.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the former were after-wards repeated and explained to me); whereupon, immediately, about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of him that was to speak.
-- I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.
-- Six hundred beds of the com-mon measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four dou-ble: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
-- He directed that those who had already beheld me should return home, and not presume to come within fifty yards of my house, without license from the court; whereby the secretaries of state got considerable fees.
-- In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, besides very many babies just able to walk, there happened to be in Coketown a considerable population of babies who had been walking against time towards the infinite world, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years and more.
-- And in this nation, there are fifty millions of money.
-- 'Oh!as a sum if you stick to a sum of not more than a hundred and fifty pound,' said Bounderby, with impatience.
-- In the little safe in young Tom's closet, the safe used for petty purposes, there was a hundred and fifty odd pound.'
-- 'A hundred and fifty odd pound,' resumed Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle was fifty years old; tall, thin, and wiry.
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