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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe!The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side; all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood; all this was thrilling.
-- Consider, now, how it must be in the case of four boats all engaging one unusually strong, active, and knowing whale; when owing to these qualities in him, as well as to the thousand concurring accidents of such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be simultaneously dangling about him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER II TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST'S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARD For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- He had no time to think about the matter, however; for Mr. Bumble gave him a tap on the head, with his cane, to wake him up: and another on the back to make him lively: and bidding him to follow, conducted him into a large white-washed room, where eight or ten fat gentlemen were sitting round a table.
-- It was eight o'clock now.
-- 'Eight o' clock, Bill,' said Nancy, when the bell ceased.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might al-most have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first con-vey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
-- It was dated from Rosings, at eight o'clock in the morning, and was as follows: 'Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sen-timents or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you.
-- The chil-dren, two girls of six and eight years old, and two younger boys, were to be left under the particular care of their cous-in Jane, who was the general favourite, and whose steady sense and sweetness of temper exactly adapted her for at-tending to them in every way teaching them, playing with them, and loving them.
-- It was drawn at the same time as the other about eight years ago.'
-- Mrs. Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn when she was only eight years old.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- at south-west - for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the river.
-- About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and bringing to, by mistake, just athwart our quarter, instead of athwart our stern, as he intended, we brought eight of our guns to bear on that side, and poured in a broadside upon him, which made him sheer off again, after returning our fire, and pouring in also his small shot from near two hundred men which he had on board.
-- However, to cut short this melancholy part of our story, our ship being disabled, and three of our men killed, and eight wounded, we were obliged to yield, and were carried all prisoners into Sallee, a port belonging to the Moors.
-- I told him he had been so generous to me in everything that I could not offer to make any price of the boat, but left it entirely to him: upon which he told me he would give me a note of hand to pay me eighty pieces of eight for it at Brazil; and when it came there, if any one offered to give more, he would make it up.
-- He offered me also sixty pieces of eight more for my boy Xury, which I was loth to take; not that I was unwilling to let the captain have him, but I was very loth to sell the poor boy's liber-ty, who had assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I remember last Christmas at a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o'clock till four, without once sitting down."
-- "Yes; and he was up again at eight to ride to covert."
-- When they were seated in the dining room, Sir John observed with regret that they were only eight all together.
-- Ah!poor man!he has been dead these eight years and better.
-- In the country, an unpremeditated dance was very allowable; but in London, where the reputation of elegance was more important and less easily attained, it was risking too much for the gratification of a few girls, to have it known that Lady Middleton had given a small dance of eight or nine couple, with two violins, and a mere side-board collation.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she awoke at eight the next morning, Hanson had gone.
-- "Well," he said, finally, "you report here at eight o'clock Monday morning.
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