tenth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第十； 十分之一，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the 20th of October, and the tenth day since they had left Talcahuano.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I lay there, I should certainly listen for that grating sound, and hear it, too!There would probably be but the tenth part of an instant left to hear it in, but one would certainly hear it.
-- I have bare-ly a tenth of what you suppose.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark night.
-- 'These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and char-coal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.
-- I try it with these details, and I see them all, in this my cell in the Bastille, near the close of the tenth year of my captivity, as I saw them all that night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must be going," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, getting up for the tenth time.
-- I wanted to be for the tenth time, but the post was taken," said Count Siniavin to the pretty Princess Tcharskaya, who had designs on him.
-- On the tenth day from their arrival at the town, Kitty was unwell.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the laymen, they can be sure of but one thing: nine-tenths of what they know about health is not so, and with the other tenth they do nothing.
-- When he was sure that the X Principle did reproduce itself indefinitely, so that in the tenth tube it grew to have as much effect as in the first, then he solemnly called on Gottlieb and laid before him his results, with his plans for further investigation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then not a tenth of your corn will come to measure, sir."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth 25month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Afterthey had passed their tenth year, they were sent to old Daddy the plantation cobbler to learn his trade, or to Amos thewheelwright and carpenter, or Phillip the cow man, or Cuffee the mule boy.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the tenth day we were chased by two pirates, who soon overtook us; for my sloop was so deep laden, that she sailed very slow, neither were we in a condition to defend ourselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's the way I spent my tenth birthday.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Friday evening, the tenth of July, according to our estimation, we ought to have been thirty leagues to the southeast of Reykjavik, and about two leagues and a half deep.
-- And I distinctly prohibit you from asking any more questions until the tenth of the same."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt.
-- There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain limitations, and nominally supplying the tenth branch of the crown's ordinary revenue.
-- From that part, the remaining ribs diminished, till the tenth and last only spanned five feet and some inches.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie saw the great park parade of carriages, beginning at the Fifty-ninth Street entrance and winding past the Museum of Art to the exit at One Hundred and Tenth Street and Seventh Avenue.
-- For nearly a quarter of a century, in another section of the city, Fleischmann, the baker, had given a loaf of bread to any one who would come for it to the side door of his restaurant at the corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, at midnight.
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