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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were eight articles in all: two little boxes with ear-rings or something of the sort, he hardly looked to see; then four small leather cases.
-- 'The day before yesterday, just after eight o'clock' mark the day and the hour! 'a journeyman house-painter, Nikolay, who had been in to see me already that day, brought me this box of gold ear-rings and stones, and asked me to give 198 Crime and Punishmenthim two roubles for them.
-- And at eight o'clock this morning' that was the third day, you understand 'I saw Nikolay coming in, not sober, though not to say very drunk he could under-stand what was said to him.
-- The porter and Koch and Pestryakov and the other porter and the wife of the first porter and the woman who was sitting in the porter's lodge and the man Kryukov, who had just got out of a cab at that minute and went in at the entry with a lady on his arm, that is eight or ten witnesses, agree that Nikolay had Dmitri on the ground, was lying on him beating him, while Dmitri hung on to his hair, beating him, too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I discovered this, by his being out on the second orthird evening of our visit, and by Mrs. Gummidge's looking up atthe Dutch clock, between eight and nine, and saying he was there,and that, what was more, she had known in the morning he wouldgo there.
-- 'He was eight years and six monthsold when they broke his first rib; eight years and eight months oldwhen they broke his second and did for him.'
-- We had started from Yarmouth at three o'clock in the afternoon,and we were due in London about eight next morning.
-- 273CHAPTER XXSteerforth's HomeWHEN the chambermaid tapped at my door at eight o'clock, andinformed me that my shaving-water was outside, I felt severely thehaving no occasion for it, and blushed in my bed.
-- He maintained all his delightful qualities to the last, until westarted forth, at eight o'clock, for Mr. Peggotty's boat.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
-- Of course I have not transcribed beyond the first eight lines.'
-- Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled; and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship, that when he came into the room she had one of the children with her the youngest, a nice little girl about eight months old, who was now making her first visit to Hartfield, and very happy to be danced about in her aunt's arms.
-- Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear and here would be a ninth and Emma apprehended that it would be a ninth very much out of humour at not being able to come even to Hartfield for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.
-- A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone! Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
-- At eight o'clock this midsummer evening, whilst the bristling ball of gold in the west still swept the tips of the ferns with its long, luxuriant rays, a soft brushing-by of garments might have been heard among them, and Bathsheba appeared in their midst, their soft, feathery arms caressing her up to her shoulders.
-- Oak gazed with misgiving at eight naked and unprotected ricks, massive and heavy with the rich produce of one-half the farm for that year.
-- Oak suddenly remembered that eight months before this time he had been fighting against fire in the same spot as desperately as he was fighting against water now and for a futile love of the same woman.
-- Every conceivable aid, method, stratagem, mechanism, by which these last desperate eight hundred yards could be overpassed by a human being unperceived, was revolved in her busy brain, and dismissed as impracticable.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside the seven inmates thus enumerated, taking one year with another, some eight law or medical students dined in the house, as well as two or three regular comers who lived in the neighborhood.
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- The next morning Paris was wrapped in one of the dense fogs that throw the most punctual people out in their calculations as to the time; even the most business-like folk fail to keep their appointments in such weather, and ordinary mortals wake up at noon and fancy it is eight o'clock.
-- Couture and the girl went out at eight o'clock to take the wafer at Saint- Etienne.
-- "Father Goriot in the goldsmith's shop in the Rue Dauphine at half-past eight this morning.
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