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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got up out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered.
-- The light ships fared the best, as not so much labouring in the sea; but two or three of them drove, and came close by us, running away with only their spritsail out before the wind.
-- The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melan-choly, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voy-age only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone 'Young man,' says he, 'you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.'
-- About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and bringing to, by mistake, just athwart our quarter, instead of athwart our stern, as he intended, we brought eight of our guns to bear on that side, and poured in a broadside upon him, which made him sheer off again, after returning our fire, and pouring in also his small shot from near two hundred men which he had on board.
-- However, to cut short this melancholy part of our story, our ship being disabled, and three of our men killed, and eight wounded, we were obliged to yield, and were carried all prisoners into Sallee, a port belonging to the Moors.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters.
-- The whole was tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters.
-- He meant not to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand pounds a-piece.
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
-- Three thousand pounds!he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ran away and spoke to one of a group of three men who were conferring together.
-- The first three in the United States, established about 1884, were in Chicago.
-- By three o'clock she was sure it must be six, and by four it seemed as if they had forgotten to note the hour and were letting all work overtime.
-- When she got up after three days, it was taken for granted that her position was lost.
-- For three days she wandered about, utterly dispirited.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.
-- But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three can-dles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay.
-- Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill- top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand.
-- We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard.
-- I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was doing so, he shook him two or three times and said to him angrily: "We're going home now.
-- Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying: "These three pears were for my breakfast, but I give them to you gladly.
-- And good old Geppetto took out a knife, peeled the three pears, and put the skins in a row on the table.
-- And later the three cores were placed on the table next to the skins.
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