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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That Smelkoff had drawn from the bank, some time before his death, three thousand eight hundred rubles; that, after a due and careful inventory of the money of the deceased, only three hundred and twelve rubles and sixteen kopecks were found.
-- For eight years she had reclined in laces and ribbons, amid velvet, gilding, ivory, bronzes and flowers.
-- During the eight months that she was out on bail, she not only became reconciled to her husband, but became so fond of him that the court officers found them living in perfect harmony.
-- Returning to the ward where eight children lay in their beds, Maslova began to remake one of the beds, by order of the Sister, and, leaning over too far with the sheet, slipped and nearly fell.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on.
-- I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then 芒聙娄 I've lived eight days 芒聙娄 such days as no human being ever lived before!I'm nearly worn out, but I shan't sleep till I've told this thing over to you.
-- "There were others coming, and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me.
-- You see, I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything.
-- I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nine from eight I can't, you know,' Alice replied very readily: 'but ''She can't do Subtraction,' said the White Queen.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the man with the lantern some paces in front.
-- There had come many from the north seven by the squire's computation, eight or nine according to Gray.
-- Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made good their footing inside our defences, while from the shelter of the woods seven or eight men, each evidently supplied with several muskets, kept up a hot though useless fire on the log-house.
-- "**The mutineers were soon only eight in number, for the man shot by Mr. Trelawney on board the schooner died that same evening of his wound.
-- Out of the eight men who had fallen in the action, only three still breathed that one of the pirates who had been shot at the loophole, Hunter, and Captain Smollett; and of these, the first two were as good as dead; the mutineer indeed died under the doctor's knife, and Hunter, do what we could, never recovered consciousness in this world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before eight days were over the Abraham Lincoln would be ploughing the waters of the Pacific.
-- exclaimed Ned Land, "they must be made of iron plates eight inches thick, like the armoured frigates."
-- They had just struck eight bells; large clouds veiled the face of the moon, then in its first quarter.
-- At eight o'clock the fog lay heavily on the waves, and its thick scrolls rose little by little.
-- At noon we were no further advanced than at eight o'clock in the morning.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cathy, catching a glimpse of her friend in his concealment, flew to embrace him; she bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek within the second, and then stopped, and drawing back, burst into a laugh, exclaiming, 'Why, how very black and cross you look!and how how funny and grim!
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