eighty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. /a. 八十pron. 八十(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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first three or four hours—that is to say, for about sixty to eighty miles, as far as Cape Gregory—the coast on either side was low and sandy.
-- Eighty miles south, on the contrary, the Sierra Ventana, toward which the travelers might possibly have to betake themselves should the Guamini disappoint their hopes, the landscape was totally different.
-- "Then, if my memory serves me right, we must be eighty miles from it, for the peak of Tristan, seven thousand feet high, is visible at that distance."
-- Cliffs composed of beds of strata made a coast line sixty to eighty feet high, which it would have been difficult to scale without ladders or cramp-irons.
-- The whole territory of South Australia is divided into lots, each containing eighty acres, and these are granted to colonists by the government.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, indeed, two, three!Ornaments of this city and of society: beauty, education, culture the woman question poetry everything!Added to which is the fact that each one will have a dot of at least eighty thou-sand roubles.
-- I was quartered at an old widow's house, a lieutenant's widow of eighty years of age.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these there came eighty ships.
-- And with these there came eighty ships.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harding applied his eye to the aperture, which overlooked the ground from a height of eighty feet.
-- On its left side it did not measure more than thirty feet in height and breadth, but on the right it was enormous, and its vaulted roof rose to a height of more than eighty feet.
-- This facade, situated at a height of eighty feet above the ground, was exposed to the east, and the rising sun saluted it with its first rays.
-- There were not less than a hundred rounds in this perpendicular height of eighty feet.
-- There the river was eighty feet in breadth, which was awkward to cross, but as Pencroft had taken upon himself to conquer this difficulty, he was compelled to do it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it had been eighty pound, the luxuriousness of feeling would have been increased.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only need eighty rubles.
-- The land was rented to the peasants, who did not pay anything and were eighty thousand rubles in arrears.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE BLACK RIVERThe portion of the terrestrial globe which is covered by water is estimated at upwards of eighty millions of acres.
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：
-- "I shall have to wait about eighty years to suit you, at that!"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The firm of Speigelheim & Co., makers of boys' caps, occupied one floor of the building, fifty feet in width and some eighty feet in depth.
-- She was too busy scrubbing the kitchen woodwork and calculating the purchasing power of eighty cents for Sunday's dinner.
-- It was costing him nearly eighty dollars a month to live.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that in that way it could be strung out to as much as eighty year, and would be the best time on record.
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