eight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 八pron. 八(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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence.
-- Prac-tical suggestions being much needed, this suggestion, too, was received with acclamation, and the coach was immedi-ately filled with eight inside and a dozen out, while as many 221people got on the roof of the hearse as could by any exercise of ingenuity stick upon it.
-- In the shadow of bank and wall the three turned out of the road, and up a blind lane, of which the wall there, risen to some eight or ten feet high formed one side.
-- Five days, six days, seven days, eight days, nine days.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish* miles; borne by electricity, the soul wants even some minutes less to accomplish the same flight.
-- He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking dil-igence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
-- It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly; and after the lapse of eight days he observed, to his great joy, that a new shadow came in the sunshine.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.
-- "Anna Arkadyevna," the countess said in explanation to her son, "has a little son eight years old, I believe, and she has never been parted from him before, and she keeps fretting over leaving him."
-- So I lived eight years.
-- Anna was not like a fashionable lady, nor the mother of a boy of eight years old.
-- And then eight hundred acres of wheat, three hundred of potatoes, and four hundred of clover, and not one acre exhausted.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.
-- A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
-- By eight o'clock Passepartout had packed the modest carpet-bag, containing the wardrobes of his master and himself; then, still troubled in mind, he carefully shut the door of his room, and descended to Mr. Fogg.
-- IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCEThe circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.
-- he exclaimed; "why, it's only eight minutes before ten."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I love her!I LOVE her!I'll 'phone her-- Wonder if I dare call her up as early as eight in the morning?"
-- But at eight he was too busy studying the lacrimal apparatus to think of ladies' eyes.
-- In Mohalis, the suitable time for young men callers to depart is ten o'clock, but from eight till a quarter after eleven Martin did battle with Mrs. Fox; talked to her in two languages, an audible gossip and a mute but furious protest, while Madeline--she was present; she sat about and looked pretty.
-- Four miles--he would do it in eight minutes.
-- One time I kind of figured on becoming an X-ray specialist--place in New York where you can take the whole course in eight weeks--and maybe settling in Butte or Sioux Falls, but I figured that even if I got to making eight- ten thousand a year, 'twouldn't hardly mean more than three thousand does here and so-- And a fellow has to consider his duty to his old patients."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others tak-en out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot.
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