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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At eight o'clock the night before, Lord Glenarvan and his friends, and the entire crew, from the stokers to the captain, all who were to take part in this self-sacrificing voyage, left the yacht and repaired to St. Mungo's, the ancient cathedral of the city.
-- "Ah, well," he said, "it is only eight o'clock at present.
-- She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand lying barren and desolate, and went on among the vast coral reefs and athwart the Isle of St. Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
-- But travelers are not too particular, and, moreover, in seven or eight months you would get a ship, I dare say, to take you back to Europe."
-- "Seven or eight months!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The walk in the centre is about eight feet across.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His estate was sold for the creditors; and the little girls two of them, of seven and eight years of age respectively, were adopted by Totski, who undertook their maintenance and education in the kindness of his heart.
-- But I had a little diamond pin, and this I sold to a travelling pedlar; he gave me eight francs for it it was worth at least forty.
-- I gave her the eight francs and asked her to take care of the money because I could get no more; and then I kissed her and said that she was not to suppose I kissed her with any evil motives or be-cause I was in love with her, for that I did so solely out of pity for her, and because from the first I had not accounted her as guilty so much as unfortunate.
-- This was a paper packet, some six or seven inches thick, and eight or nine in length, wrapped in an old newspaper, and tied round three or four times with string.
-- That took place as I said on the eve of Easter, and eight days later his soul returned to God.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine.
-- As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.'
-- And Teucer answered, 'Most noble son of Atreus, you need not urge me; from the moment we began to drive them back to Ilius, I have never ceased so far as in me lies to look out for men whom I can shoot and kill; I have shot eight barbed shafts, and all of them have been buried in the flesh of warlike youths, but this mad dog I cannot hit.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why, hello, Charlie, old man," said Hurstwood, as Drouet came in that evening about eight o'clock.
-- It's half after eight already," and he drew out his watch.
-- She came faintly across the stage, saying: "And you, sir; we have been looking for you since eight o'clock," but with so little colour and in such a feeble voice that it was positively painful.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIII HE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it Twas after eight o'clock.
-- Well, one night I creeps to de do' pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn' want to, but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me, en it 'uz sich a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'.
-- 'Long 'bout six in de mawnin' skifts begin to go by, en 'bout eight er nine every skift dat went 'long wuz talkin' 'bout how yo' pap come over to de town en say you's killed.
-- I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars.
-- We rummaged the clothes we'd got, and found eight dollars in silver sewed up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This is our plan: We'll come once in a while, as in the past, to pay a visit to this henhouse, and we'll take away eight chickens.
-- That night, Pinocchio, instead of going to bed at ten o'clock waited until midnight, and instead of making eight baskets, he made sixteen.
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