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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nautical leagues.
-- In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three hundred feet over all.
-- They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
-- This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The women wandered about in a little confusion, chased hither and thither by the three married daughters of the house.
-- "We might see something of each other I am in London for two or three days," said Gerald.
-- "For three days," replied Birkin.
-- He took the money from Gerald and went out into the passage again, where they heard him saying, "You can't want more money, you had three and six yesterday.
-- "Oh but I can, perfectly there are three more beds besides mine do stay, won't you.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
-- A vain idea!The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, "What, done already?"
-- Not liking to show him that I had heard the conflict, I continued my toilette rather noisily, looked at my watch, and soliloquised on the length of the night: 'Not three o'clock yet!I could have taken oath it had been six.
-- He cast a sinister look at the little flame which I had enticed to play between the ribs, swept the cat from its elevation, and bestowing himself in the vacancy, commenced the operation of stuffing a three inch pipe with tobacco.
-- It seemed a long while to us all the three days of his absence and often did little Cathy ask when he would be home.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At the end of three yards I shall repeat them for fear of your forgetting them.
-- 'Three hundred and sixty-five,' said Alice.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, I see what you're at there"; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold.
-- So things passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone drawing slowly near along the road.
-- Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.
-- There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: "Bulk of treasure here."
-- In three weeks' time three weeks! two weeks ten days we'll have the best ship, sir, and the choicest crew in England.
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