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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His rat-crew searched each warehouse before pumping in the gas, lest someone be left in the place, but in the third one a tramp had been asleep, and when the doors were anxiously opened after the fumigation, there were not only thousands of dead rats but also a dead and very stiff tramp.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering.
-- Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a few minutes of life before me.
-- It is only ninety versts from us to the railway and we have come to an agreement with a driver we know, so as to be in readiness; and from there Dounia and I can travel quite comfortably third class.
-- No matter!It is only nine-ty versts and then they can 'travel very comfortably, third class,' for a thousand versts!Quite right, too.
-- But the six whips were at-tacking her in all directions, and the shaft was raised again and fell upon her a third time, then a fourth, with heavy measured blows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw her on aSaturday, every third or fourth week, when I went over to Doverfor a treat; and I saw Mr. Dick every alternate Wednesday, whenhe arrived by stage-coach at noon, to stay until next morning.
-- 'Better there than here,' said a third voice aloud- Martha's, thoughshe did not move.
-- Steerforth not yet appearing, which induced me to apprehend thathe must be ill, I left the Commons early on the third day, andwalked out to Highgate.
-- There was a hurried butaffectionate parting between Agnes and herself; and Dora was towrite to Agnes (who was not to mind her letters being foolish, shesaid), and Agnes was to write to Dora; and they had a secondparting at the coach-door, and a third when Dora, in spite of theremonstrances of Miss Lavinia, would come running out once moreto remind Agnes at the coach window about writing, and to shakeher curls at me on the box.
-- Altogether, I am well off; when I tellmy income on the fingers of my left hand, I pass the third fingerand take in the fourth to the middle joint.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wed-ding over, and the bride-people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together, with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening.
-- The preparations must take their time, nothing could be properly ready till the third week were entered on, and for a few days they must be planning, proceeding and hoping in uncertainty at the risk in her opinion, the great risk, of its being all in vain.
-- Not merely when a state of warfare with one young lady might be supposed to recommend the other, but from the very first; and she was not satisfied with expressing a natural and reasonable admiration but without solicita-tion, or plea, or privilege, she must be wanting to assist and befriend her. Before Emma had forfeited her confidence, and about the third time of their meeting, she heard all Mrs. Elton's knight-errantry on the subject. 'Jane Fairfax is absolutely charming, Miss Woodhouse. I quite rave about Jane Fairfax. A sweet, interesting creature.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak then struck up "Jockey to the Fair," and played that sparkling melody three times through, accenting the notes in the third round in a most artistic and lively manner by bending his body in small jerks and tapping with his foot to beat time.
-- Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops' croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint, like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite, snow-white ladies'-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter's night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time; and of the animal, the metamorphosed figures of Mr. Jan Coggan, the master-shearer; the second and third shearers, who travelled in the exercise of their calling, and do not require definition by name; Henery Fray the fourth shearer, Susan Tall's husband the fifth, Joseph Poorgrass the sixth, young Cain Ball as assistant-shearer, and Gabriel Oak as general supervisor.
-- There was no third method.
-- "Oh, fie fie!Am I any worse for breaking the third of that Terrible Ten than you for breaking the ninth?"
-- The third item of consciousness was that of seeing the same sword, perfectly clean and free from blood held vertically in Troy's hand (in the position technically called "recover swords").
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two of the four rooms on the third floor were also let--one to an elderly spinster, a Mlle.
-- Above the third story there was a garret where the linen was hung to dry, and a couple of attics.
-- "From the windows of the house," thus ran the prospectus, "there is a charming view of the Vallee des Gobelins (so there is--from the third floor), and a _beautiful_ garden, _extending_ down to _an avenue of lindens_ at the further end."
-- Towards the end of the third year Father Goriot reduced his expenses still further; he went up to the third story, and now paid forty-five francs a month.
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
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