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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the third of July, a sudden silence fell on the wires from the north, a silence that lasted till midday of thefourth when fragmentary and garbled reports began to trickle into headquarters in Atlanta.
-- Except for Aunt Pittypat and Uncle Henry and you, she hasn't a closerelative in the world, except the Burrs in Macon and they're third cousins.
-- He had lost a third of hismen in that fight and the remainder slogged tiredly through the rain across the country toward the Chattahoochee River.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (I don't know who Sir was, but he certainly was not I, and there was no third person present); "that's the way you know the noble-minded, sir!Ever forgiving and ever affable.
-- The second or third time as ever I see him, he come a tearing down into Compeyson's parlor late at night, in only a flannel gown, with his hair all in a sweat, and he says to Compeyson's wife, 'Sally, she really is upstairs alonger me, now, and I can't get rid of her.
-- Miss Havisham motioning to me for the third or fourth time to sit down, I took the chair by the dressing-table, which I had often seen her occupy.
-- When I had begun to advance Herbert's prospects by stealth, I had been able to bear this with cheerful philosophy: he and his affianced, for their part, had naturally not been very anxious to introduce a third person into their interviews; and thus, although I was assured that I had risen in Clara's esteem, and although the young lady and I had long regularly interchanged messages and remembrances by Herbert, I had never seen her.
-- It was an odd sensation to see his very familiar face established quite at home in that very unfamiliar room and region; and I found myself looking at him, much as I looked at the corner-cupboard with the glass and china, the shells upon the chimney-piece, and the colored engravings on the wall, representing the death of Captain Cook, a ship-launch, and his Majesty King George the Third in a state coachman's wig, leather-breeches, and top-boots, on the terrace at Windsor.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- said the sparrow; and perching upon the third horse, she began to peck him too.
-- The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.
-- The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.
-- In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again the second and third night; and every thing happened just as before; the princesses danced each time till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- y father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was Mthe third of five sons.
-- The emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the oth-er red, and the third green.
-- The sempstresses took my measure as I lay on the ground, one standing at my neck, and another at my mid-leg, with a strong cord extended, that each held by the end, while a third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long.
-- On the other side, dis-coursing of the ladies in that emperor's court, he used to tell me, 'one had freckles; another too wide a mouth; a third too large a nose;' nothing of which I was able to distinguish.
-- Another time, one of the servants, whose office it was to fill my trough every third day with fresh water, was so care-less as to let a huge frog (not perceiving it) slip out of his pail.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
-- The third gentleman now stepped forth.
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
-- Nay, he made this foil of his so very widely known, that third parties took it up, and handled it on some occasions with considerable briskness.
-- First person singular, I do not care; second person singular, thou dost not care; third person singular, she does not care,' returned Tom.
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