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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine.
-- said he to his wife, 'what ill luck has befallen me! 40 Grimms' Fairy Talesmy wine is all spilt, and my horses all three dead.'
-- Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- I have carefully perused them three times.
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
-- Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended 11by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swal-low, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts.
-- After three years expectation that things would mend, I accept-ed an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social distinction as to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was only to be satisfied by three sonorous repetitions of the boast.
-- There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who did the fairy business when required.
-- The Sleary philosophy was propounded as they went downstairs and the fixed eye of Philosophy and its rolling eye, too soon lost the three figures and the basket in the darkness of the street.
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- But, he had not gone the length of three streets, when he saw another of the shawled figures in advance of him, at which he looked so keenly that perhaps its mere shadow indistinctly reflected on the wet pavement if he could have seen it without the figure itself moving along from lamp to lamp, brightening and fading as it went would have been enough to tell him who was there.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Harry--Harry--Harry--" I hastened to obey, but before I could reach his room, jumping three steps at a time, he was stamping his right foot upon the landing.
-- It was about five inches by three and was scrawled over in the mos t extraordinary fashion.
-- Out of politeness I waited three minutes, but no sign of my uncle, the Professor.
-- For three mortal hours he continued without speaking a word, without raising his head, scratching, rewriting, calculating over and over again.
-- ARNE SAKNUSSEMM My uncle leaped three feet from the ground with joy.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three had said they would all live together always.
-- He stayed that time only the three days, and to Clifford was exactly the same as on the first evening; to Connie also.
-- So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
-- What she misses!I only had Ted three years, but my word, while I had him I had a husband I could nev-er forget.
-- The lads spend every penny on themselves, clothes, smoking, drink-ing in the Miners' Welfare, jaunting off to Sheffield two or three times a week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides the two men, a notched and disfigured bench, immovable from the wall, with a draught-board rudely hacked upon it with a knife, a set of draughts, made of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three wine bottles.
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