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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether.
-- It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days.
-- The island, which was of irreg-ular outline and lay low upon the wide sea, had a total area, I suppose, of seven or eight square miles.
-- It was about seven or eight weeks after my landing, rather more, I think, though I had not troubled to keep account of the time, when this catastrophe occurred.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and soft, oozy triangles that melt-ed into squares and five-sided figures, and coiled mounds, never resting, never hurrying, and never stopping his low humming song.
-- Little Toomai was hanging eight feet up in the air, and he wished very much that he were eight feet underground.
-- The huge limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and the wrinkled skin of the elbow points rustled.
-- The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Some six or eight thousand men,' returned Montcalm, with much apparent indifference, 'whom their leader wisely judges to be safer in their works than in the field.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't mean the past of seven or eight years ago, but further back still, when you first met your wife, and loved her, and married her.
-- Eight years before he had rashly married a wife.
-- I wonder what he would have said when I gave him twenty-nine thousand eight hundred francs for his picture."
-- Ata's house stood about eight kilometres from the road that runs round the island, and you went to it along a winding pathway shaded by the luxuriant trees of the tropics.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The distance between these two extremities, which made the bow of the bay, was about eight miles.
-- He and Neb had surveyed the coast for a distance of eight miles and consequently much beyond the place where the balloon had fallen the last time but one, a fall which was followed by the disappearance of the engineer and the dog Top.
-- At eight o'clock Neb had not appeared, but there was no doubt that the frightful weather alone hindered his return, and that he must have taken refuge in some cave, to await the end of the storm or at least the return of day.
-- There was a distance of eight miles to be accomplished; but, as they could not go fast, and it would perhaps be necessary to stop frequently, they reckoned that it would take at least six hours to reach the Chimneys.
-- Next day, the 28th of March, when the engineer awoke, about eight in the morning, he saw his companions around him watching his sleep, and, as on the day before, his first word s were: "Island or continent?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's an aunt of mine down in Dorsetshire that was going to die when I was eight years old, and hasn't kept her word yet.
-- 'Why, I hope not,' returned Mr Swiveller, 'but the average number of letters it take to soften her is six, and this time we have got as far as eight without any effect at all.
-- I said worse luck, because I've been watching ever since eight o'clock, and seen nothing of her.'
-- Why, I remember the time when old Maunders as had three-and-twenty wans I remember the time when old Maunders had in his cottage in Spa Fields in the winter time, when the season was over, eight male and female dwarfs setting down to dinner every day, who was waited on by eight old giants in green coats, red smalls, blue cotton stockings, and high-lows: and there was one dwarf as had grown elderly and wicious who whenever his giant wasn't quick enough to please him, used to stick pins in his legs, not being able to reach up any higher.
-- The reply which the stout lady did not come to, until she had thoroughly explained that she went to the races on the first day in a gig, and as an expedition of pleasure, and that her presence there had no connexion with any matters of business or profit was, that the town was eight miles off.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, in pursuance of that order, on the 28th day of April, at eight o'clock in the morning, the jail warden entered the dingy corridor of the woman's ward.
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