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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.
-- She returned to the house about eight o'clock, and when one inquired where she had passed the night, she replied that she had been looking for the child and demanded earnestly if anything had been heard con-cerning him.
-- 239Chapter 23 t was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short Itime on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of wa-ters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroesand eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
-- Since eight o'clock she hadbeen trying on and rejecting dresses, and now she stood dejected and irritable in lace pantalets, linen corset cover andthree billowing lace and linen petticoats.
-- She had borne eight children, as red of hair and as full of life as she, and had raised them most successfully, sothe County said, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the stem discipline she gave the colts she bred.
-- Colts overflowed the paddock onto the front lawn, even as her eight children overflowed the rambling houseon the hill, and colts and sons and daughters and hunting dogs tagged after her as she went about the plantation.
-- Shoes cost from two hundred to eight hundred dollarsa pair, depending on whether they were made of "cardboard" or real leather.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock.
-- Now that we were out upon the dismal wilderness where they little thought I had been within eight or nine hours and had seen both men hiding, I considered for the first time, with great dread, if we should come upon them, would my particular convict suppose that it was I who had brought the soldiers there?
-- "However," said Joe, rising to replenish the fire; "here's the Dutch-clock a working himself up to being equal to strike Eight of 'em, and she's not come home yet!I hope Uncle Pumblechook's mare mayn't have set a forefoot on a piece o' ice, and gone down."
-- Mr. Pumblechook and I breakfasted at eight o'clock in the parlor behind the shop, while the shopman took his mug of tea and hunch of bread and butter on a sack of peas in the front premises.
-- I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, 'You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.'
-- 'Feel,' said he, 'how heavy it is, and yet it is only eight weeks old.
-- In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morn-ing, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
-- The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in say-ing 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a gay coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feath-ers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so 64 Grimms' Fairy Taleslong and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.
-- They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The de-clivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening.
-- I slept about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the emperor's order, had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.
-- I desired he would or-der several sticks of two feet high, and the thickness of an ordinary cane, to be brought me; whereupon his majesty commanded the master of his woods to give directions ac-cordingly; and the next morning six woodmen arrived with as many carriages, drawn by eight horses to each.
-- When I came to the side of the outer court, I stood upon one stool, and took the other in my hand; this I lifted over the roof, and gently set it down on the space between the first and second court, which was eight feet wide.
-- he empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-Teast of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody.
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