third是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第三(个) ， 三分之一(的)，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This third interchange of the Christian name was com-pleted at the moment when Madame Defarge put her toothpick by, kept her eyebrows up, and slightly rustled in her seat.
-- At last, the top of the staircase was gained, and they stopped for the third time.
-- A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers.
-- 'I can't undertake to find third parties in common sense; I can only find it for myself.
-- This had been the third morning in succession, on which there had been early drinking at the wine-shop of Monsieur Defarge.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, that made him so angry!But two winters were past, and in the third the Tree was so large that the hare was obliged to go round it.
-- Third Story.
-- The robe of the one was red, that of the second blue, and that of the third white.
-- It was on the third day when a little personage without horse or equipage, came marching right boldly up to the palace; his eyes shone like yours, he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very shabby.'
-- If the seaman loosens one knot, then he has a good wind; if a sec-ond, then it blows pretty stiffly; if he undoes the third and fourth, then it rages so that the forests are upturned.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One-third of the men in the government, the older men, had been friends of his father's, and had known him in petticoats; another third were his intimate chums, and the remainder were friendly acquaintances.
-- was the first thought that came to Anna Arkadyevna, when she had said good-bye for the last time to her brother, who had stood blocking up the entrance to the carriage till the third bell rang.
-- The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in.
-- This is the third time you've asked me the same thing."
-- The third circle with which Anna had ties was preeminently the fashionable world--the world of balls, of dinners, of sumptuous dresses, the world that hung on to the court with one hand, so as to avoid sinking to the level of the demi-monde.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agile Frenchman was soon upon his feet again, and lost no time in knocking down two of his long-gowned adversaries with his fists and a vigorous application of his toes; then, rushing out of the pagoda as fast as his legs could carry him, he soon escaped the third priest by mingling with the crowd in the streets.
-- Passepartout rode in the same carriage with his master, and a third passenger occupied a seat opposite to them.
-- One, with a fan and some bits of paper, performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers; another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience; while a third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling.
-- A second group of artists disposed themselves on these long appendages, then a third above these, then a fourth, until a human monument reaching to the very cornices of the theatre soon arose on top of the noses.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It did not matter to him how clumsily her honey-colored hair was tucked under her black hat, a characterless little mushroom of a hat, but he did see and resent the contrast between her shirtwaist, with the third button missing, her checked skirt, her unfortunate bright brown bolero jacket, and Madeline's sleekness of blue serge.
-- On the third irascible burring he took up the receiver and grumbled, "Yes, yes, vot iss it?"
-- The hall was a third full of summer students and teachers, and men who might have been doctors or school-principals.
-- "Meet Ol' Doe Almus Pickerbaugh, a he-man whom Chum Frink has hailed as 'the two-fisted, fighting poet doc,' a scientist who puts his remarkable discoveries right over third base, yet who, as a reg'lar old-fashioned Sunday-school superintendent, rebukes the atheistic so-called scientists that are menacing the foundations of our religion and liberties by their smart-aleck cracks at everything that is noble and improving," chanted the chronicler.
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