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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nine heralds went crying about among them to stay their tumult and bid them listen to the kings, till at last they were got into their several places and ceased their clamour.
-- Nine of Jove's years are gone; the timbers of our ships have rotted; their tackling is sound no longer.
-- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.
-- As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So for twenty years altogether counting nine years in England I have been going on; and there is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort.
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：
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
-- After all, I had not seen him for fifteen years, and it was nine since he died.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nine o'clock in the morning.
-- The path, already trodden under the evergreen trees, was found, and at nine o'clock Cyrus Harding and his companions had reached the western border of the forest.
-- The engineer now wound it up, and ascertaining by the height of the sun that it must be about nine o'clock in the morning, he put his watch at that hour.
-- They reckoned that it would be about eight or nine miles to go there, and as much to return, so that the whole of the day would be occupied.
-- At half-past nine the way was suddenly found to be barred by an unknown stream, from thirty to forty feet broad, whose rapid current dashed foaming over the numerous rocks which interrupted its course.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To these impulses must be added the complete ascendancy which his friend had long been accustomed to exercise over him an ascendancy exerted in the beginning sorely at the expense of his friend's vices, and was in nine cases out of ten looked upon as his designing tempter when he was indeed nothing but his thoughtless, light-headed tool.
-- The spot was at Chelsea, for there Miss Sophia Wackles resided with her widowed mother and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions; a circumstance which was made known to the neighbourhood by an oval board over the front first-floor windows, whereupon appeared in circumambient flourishes the words 'Ladies' Seminary'; and which was further published and proclaimed at intervals between the hours of half-past nine and ten in the morning, by a straggling and solitary young lady of tender years standing on the scraper on the tips of her toes and making futile attempts to reach the knocker with a spelling-book.
-- Why, my good feller, do you know what o'clock it is half-past nine a.m. in the morning?'
-- Then Kit began to wish they had not been quite so nimble; for the travelling-carriage which had been hired for the occasion was not to arrive until nine o'clock, and there was nothing but breakfast to fill up the intervening blank of one hour and a half.
-- These conditions being arranged, he was removed one evening to his new abode, and enjoyed, in common with nine other gentlemen, and two ladies, the privilege of being taken to his place of retirement in one of Royalty's own carriages.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The joy of spring felt by animals and men did not penetrate the office of the county jail, but the one thing of supreme importance there was a document received the previous evening, with title, number and seal, which ordered the bringing into court for trial, this 28th day of April, at nine o'clock in the morning, three prisoners--two women and one man.
-- From this day on Maslova began to lead a life to which hundreds of thousands of women are driven, and which, in nine cases out of ten, ends in painful disease, premature decrepitude and death.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Trap of the White Sphinx"About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival.
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：
-- Take nine from eight.'
-- 'Nine from eight I can't, you know,' Alice replied very readily: 'but ''She can't do Subtraction,' said the White Queen.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbours, and a hill in the centre part marked "The Spy-glass."
-- I laid by nine hundred safe, from England, and two thousand after Flint.
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