nine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 九pron. /ad. 九(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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 316 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX FIRST STORY here was once upon a time an old fox with nine tails, Twho believed that his wife was not faithful to him, and wished to put her to the test.
-- 'Has he nine as beautiful tails as the late Mr Fox?'
-- After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox.
-- Then he wanted to go his way; but she took hold of him, and said, 'Listen, my friend, to what I am going to tell you; I will reward you for your kindness; go your way, and after a little time you will come to a tree where you will see nine birds sitting on a cloak.
-- Then still more men fell down, one after the other; they brought nine dead men's legs and two skulls, and set them up and played at nine-pins with them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remembered to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just day-light.
-- He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.
-- Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords, by many pulleys fastened on the poles; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and slung into 21the engine, and there tied fast.
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- I then gave up my silver and copper money, my purse, with nine large pieces of gold, and some smaller ones; my knife and razor, my comb and silver snuff-box, my handkerchief and jour-36 Gulliver's Travelsnal-book.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear, no, sir!It's the nine oils.'
-- 'The nine oils, sir, to rub father with.'
-- 'Then,' said Mr. Bounderby, with a loud short laugh, 'what the devil do you rub your father with nine oils for?'
-- 'Merrylegs and nine oils, eh!'
-- 'Nine oils, Merrylegs, missing tips, garters, banners, and Ponging, eh!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nine o'clock in the morning when we were quite ready.
-- "Scarcely fifteen degrees by Reaumur, which is only an increase of nine since our departure."
-- I had heard that the Lycoperdon giganteum reaches nine feet in circumference, but here were white mushrooms, nearly forty feet high, and with tops of equal dimensions.
-- Are we not nine hundred leagues distant from Reykjavik?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, my cherub, nine times out of ten, no!Love's another of those half-witted perfor-mances today.
-- Connie turned to the child, a ruddy, black-haired thing of nine or ten.
-- But at half past nine she got up, and went outside to listen.
-- We could have been in Pall Mall by nine o'clock.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You, nine weeks and three days, at five this afternoon.'
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