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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who did the fairy business when required.
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- Meanwhile the marriage was appointed to be solemnized in eight weeks' time, and Mr. Bounderby went every evening to Stone Lodge as an accepted wooer.
-- It was an appropriate occasion for Mr. Bounderby to discuss the flavour of the hap'orth of stewed eels he had purchased in the streets at eight years old; and also of the inferior water, specially used for laying the dust, with which he had washed down that repast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried M. Fridriksson; "why, we have eight thousand volumes of most rare and valuable works--some in the Scandinavian language, besides all the new publications from Copenhagen."
-- But when my uncle came to understand that they were Danish miles, of eight thousand yards each, he was obliged to be more moderate in his ideas, and, considering the horrible roads we had to follow, to allow eight or ten days for the journey.
-- This assured us water for eight days.
-- CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT At eight o'clock the next morning, a faint kind of dawn of day awoke us.
-- About eight o'clock in the evening, my uncle gave the signal for halting.
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：
-- Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
-- 'Eight months, Madam...your Ladyship!'
-- They think nothing of giving sev-en or eight guineas for a winter coat colliers' daughters, mind you and two guineas for a child's summer hat.
-- 'And of course,' he said, 'I have to live an exemplary life for the next six or eight months.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas she had put the lump of coarse bread into the swart, scaled, knotted hands of John Baptist (who had scarcely as much nail on his eight fingers and two thumbs as would have made out one for Monsieur Rigaud), with ready confidence; and, when he kissed her hand, had herself passed it caressingly over his face.
-- They looked tempting; eight in number, circularly set out on a white plate on a tray covered with a white napkin, flanked by a slice of buttered French roll, and a little compact glass of cool wine and water; but she resisted all persuasions, and sent them down again placing the act to her credit, no doubt, in her Eternal Day-Book.
-- At so much a day or at so little from eight to eight, Little Dorrit was to be hired.
-- When his youngest child was eight years old, his wife, who had long been languishing away of her own inherent weakness, not that she retained any greater sensitiveness as to her place of abode than he did went upon a visit to a poor friend and old nurse in the country, and died there.
-- With a pitiful and plaintive look for everything, indeed, but with something in it for only him that was like protection, this Child of the Marshalsea and the child of the Father of the Marshalsea, sat by her friend the turnkey in the lodge, kept the family room, or wandered about the prison-yard, for the first eight years of her life.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not more than six or eight will probably come, so I shall hire a beach wagon and borrow Mr. Laurence's cherry-bounce.'
-- I'm rather proud of my wife's feet, and don't mind if she does pay eight or nine dollars for her boots, if they are good ones.'
-- Of course they were the most remarkable children ever born, as will be shown when I mention that they walked at eight months, talked fluently at twelve months, and at two years they took their places at table, and behaved with a propri-ety which charmed all beholders.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him; I almost felt like pushing him over, so as to change his position, for it was almost intolerable, it seemed so painfully and unnaturally constrained; especially, as in all probability he had been sitting so for upwards of eight or ten hours, going too without his regular meals.
-- Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.
-- Eight bells there, forward!
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