eighth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第八 n. 八分之一，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：
-- Glenarvan wished to purchase an eighth horse for the Patagonian, but he gave him to understand that it would be useless.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had made it with the hides of seven full-fed bulls, and over these he had set an eighth layer of bronze.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked out of the McGurk Building in a melancholy, deprecatory way, with one breeches leg bulging over his riding-boots; and however piously he tried, he never remembered to button his blouse over the violet-flowered shirts which, he often confided, you could buy ever so cheap on Eighth Avenue.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The eighth one on the left."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Immediately his eyes were attracted by a cross which, made with a pencil, was placed against the eighth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He dreaded the eighth day.
-- At last the eighth day came.
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：
-- You can be the White Queen's Pawn, if you like, as Lily's too young to play; and you're in the Second Square to begin with: when you get to the Eighth Square you'll be a Queen ' Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.
-- 'You should have said, "It's extremely kind of you to tell me all this" however, we'll suppose it said the Seventh Square is all forest however, one of the Knights will show you the way and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it's all feasting and fun!'
-- However, on second thoughts, she made up her mind to go on: 'for I certainly won't go back,' she thought to herself, and this was the only way to the Eighth Square.
-- If I could only get to the Eighth Square before it gets dark!'
-- 'The Eighth Square at last!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Replying to a question Conseil asked me as to the time these colossal barriers took to be raised, I astonished him much by telling him that learned men reckoned it about the eighth of an inch in a hundred years.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the eighth day, the captain made out Myganness, the westernmost of the isles, and from that moment headed direct for Portland, a cape on the southern shores of the singular island for which we were bound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Merdle concurred with all her heart or with all her art, which was exactly the same thing and herself despatched a preparatory letter by the next post to the eighth wonder of the world.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the Roads being reckoned as good as a harbour, the anchor-age good, and our ground- tackle very strong, our men were unconcerned, and not in the least apprehensive of danger, but spent the time in rest and mirth, after the manner of the sea; but the eighth day, in the morning, the wind increased, and we had all hands at work to strike our topmasts, and make everything snug and close, that the ship might ride as easy as possible.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Third Avenue they marched, a seemingly weary way, to Eighth Street, where there was a lodginghouse, closed, apparently, for the night.
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