two是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 二， 两个n. 两个(人或物)，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The meals in the artistic little dining-room were pleasant; the table looked nice, the two maids were trim and comely; the food was well cooked.
-- I pictured their lives, troubled by no untoward adventure, honest, decent, and, by reason of those two upstanding, pleasant children, so obviously destined to carry on the normal traditions of their race and station, not without significance.
-- A pleasant, hospitable woman, with a harmless craze for the small lions of literary society; a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him; two nice-looking, healthy children.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance, for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
-- Two more hours passed and the balloon was scarcely 400 feet above the water.
-- But, when only two fathoms off, terrible cries resounded from four pairs of lungs at once.
-- At last, two minutes later, it reproached obliquely, and finally fell on a sandy beach, out of the reach of the waves.
-- It was he who, after the affair of the Black River, determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office, and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle, telegraphed for two hours the first chapters of the Bible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occupied with such thoughts as these, and a crowd of others all tending to the same point, I continued to pace the street for two long hours; at length the rain began to descend heavily, and then over-powered by fatigue though no less interested than I had been at first, I engaged the nearest coach and so got home.
-- On the Surrey side of the river was a small rat-infested dreary yard called 'Quilp's Wharf,' in which were a little wooden counting-house burrowing all awry in the dust as if it had fallen from the clouds and ploughed into the ground; a few fragments of rusty anchors; several large iron rings; some piles of rotten wood; and two or three heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered.
-- Another lady recounted her own personal struggle and final triumph, in the course whereof she had found it necessary to call in her mother and two aunts, and to weep incessantly night and day for six weeks.
-- In some of the vessels at anchor all hands were busily engaged in coiling ropes, spreading out sails to dry, taking in or discharging their cargoes; in others no life was visible but two or three tarry boys, and perhaps a barking dog running to and fro upon the deck or scrambling up to look over the side and bark the louder for the view.
-- It was a dirty little box, this counting-house, with nothing in it but an old ricketty desk and two stools, a hat-peg, an ancient almanack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight-day clock which hadn't gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minute-hand had been twisted off for a tooth-pick.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You certainly cannot stick to two things," said the chief warden, with official assurance of his own wit.
-- They entered the office, where an armed escort of two soldiers stood.
-- Maslova was the daughter of an unmarried menial who lived with her mother, a cowherd, on the estate of two spinsters.
-- The sixth child, begotten of a passing gypsy, was a girl, who would have shared the same fate, but it happened that one of the two old maidens entered the cow-shed to reprimand the milkmaids for carelessness in skimming the cream, and there saw the mother with the healthy and beautiful child.
-- Of the two old maidens, the younger one--Sophia Ivanovna--was the kindlier, while the older one-- Maria Ivanovna--was of austere disposition.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.
-- You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four if they could master the perspective of the thing.
-- I admit we move freely in two dimensions.
-- He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug.
-- There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated.
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：
-- Here Alice wound two or three turns of the worsted round the kitten's neck, just to see how it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again.
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