three是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 三pron. /a. 三(个， 只…)，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He admired her so much that he used to light the candle three times a night to look at her."
-- And he became a very celebrated bankrupt two or three times."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house itself is three stories high, without counting the attics under the roof.
-- Beside the seven inmates thus enumerated, taking one year with another, some eight law or medical students dined in the house, as well as two or three regular comers who lived in the neighborhood.
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
-- For three months from that day Mme.
-- "So you have two or three dozen daughters, have you?"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- 44 Frankenstein Such were my reflections during the first two or three days of my residence at Ingolstadt, which were chiefly spent in becoming acquainted with the localities and the prin-cipal residents in my new abode.
-- 'Ah!I wish you had come three months ago, and then you would have found us all joyous and delighted.
-- I 121passed three days in these rambles and at length discovered the open country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, andthe tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, byrequest, from the University of Virginia.
-- To the ears of the three on the porch came the sounds of hooves, the jingling of harness chains and the shrillcareless laughter of negro voices, as the field hands and mules came in from the fields.
-- The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union,and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant's hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch.
-- The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others.
-- We had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst something inside my ear.
-- We could not go fast, because of their lameness; and they were so spent, that two or three times we had to halt while they rested.
-- Three or four soldiers who lay upon it in their great-coats were not much interested in us, but just lifted their heads and took a sleepy stare, and then lay down again.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
-- An owl with fiery eyes flew three times round them, and three times screamed: 'Tu whu!Tu whu!Tu whu!'
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