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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came towards me in three very slow steps, and stood quite close.
-- It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alter-nately I appealed to one and another of the three men, first to the grey-haired man to let me land, and then to the drunk-en captain to keep me aboard.
-- There were three other men besides, three strange brutish-look- ing fellows, at whom the staghounds were snarling savagely.
-- From him my eyes travelled to his three men; and a strange crew they were.
-- The three muffled men, with the clumsiest movements, scrambled out upon the sand, and forthwith set to landing the cargo, assisted by the man on the beach.
-- I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen, not stiff they were, but distort-ed in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That will at least save the Pack three lives.
-- The Pan-ther lay gasping for breath, his head just out of the water, while the monkeys stood three deep on the red steps, danc-ing up and down with rage, ready to spring upon him from all sides if he came out to help Baloo.
-- Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
-- And the three slipped off through a gap in the walls to the jungle.
-- said two or three women together.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now com-poses the United States.
-- No sooner were these females seated, than their atten-dant sprang lightly into the saddle of the war-horse, when the whole three bowed to Webb, who in courtesy, awaited their parting on the threshold of his cabin and turning their horses' heads, they proceeded at a slow amble, followed by their train, toward the northern entrance of the encamp-ment.
-- 'I am as ready to do the one as the other; but to fight the Iroquois 'tis necessary to find the skulkers; and to eat, 'tis necessary to get the game talk of the devil and he will come; there is a pair of the biggest antlers I have seen this season, moving the bushes below the hill!Now, Uncas,' he continued, in a half whisper, and laughing with a kind of inward sound, like one who had learned to be watchful, 'I will bet my charger three times full of powder, against a foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes, and nearer to the right than to the left.'
-- Before he had, however, proceeded a hundred yards, he met the three foresters already returning from their unsuccessful pursuit.
-- The scout, while making his remarks, was busied in col-lecting certain necessary implements; as he concluded, he moved silently by the group of travelers, accompanied by the Mohicans, who seemed to comprehend his intentions with instinctive readiness, when the whole three disap-peared in succession, seeming to vanish against the dark face of a perpendicular rock that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had three or four boon companions, who regarded him as their model, and at the head of whom he scoured the country, attending every scene of feud or merriment for miles round.
-- In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband ar-ticles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirl-igigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper game-cocks.
-- The greater part of the time he scraped on two or three strings, accompany-ing every movement of the bow with a motion of the head; bowing almost to the ground, and stamping with his foot whenever a fresh couple were to start.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I arrived, a little late, because in my fear of being too early I had walked three times round the cathedral, I found the party already complete.
-- She was the only woman of the three whose face was free of make-up, and by contrast with the others she seemed simple and unaffected.
-- I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week.
-- We went down for two or three days, my wife and I, and I played golf with him.
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