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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps the third document may throw some light on it.
-- The first extends from the chain of the Andes, and stretches over an extent of 250 miles covered with stunted trees and bushes; the second 450 miles is clothed with magnificent herbage, and stops about 180 miles from Buenos Ayres; from this point to the sea, the foot of the traveler treads over immense prairies of lucerne and thistles, which constitute the third division of the Pampas.
-- The third arm, on the contrary, stretched right out in a horizontal position above the roaring waters, into which the lower leaves dipped.
-- A second and a third time the Indian fired, awakening the echoes among the sand-hills.
-- "A very wise conclusion," said Paganel, "according to the geometrographic axiom that two islands resembling a third must have a common likeness.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
-- 'Snap goes our third thread, and we end where we began,' said he.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up.
-- Probably the other heard nothing; he would begin to listen now and then, and at the third word or so he had forgotten all about it.
-- The prince was given the middle room of the three, the first being occupied by one Ferdishenko, while the third was empty.
-- But exactly three months later at the inspection of the brigade, the man Kolpakoff was found in the third company of the second battalion of infantry, Novozemlianski division, just as if nothing had happened!'
-- And as to the third of our trio, Epanchin, of course after that little affair with the poodle in the railway carriage, it was all UP between us.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove.
-- The stars have gone forward, two-thirds of the night are al-ready spent, and the third is alone left us.'
-- Cebriones was also joined with them as third in command, for Hector had left his chariot in charge of a less valiant soldier.
-- The next company was led by Paris, Alcathous, and Agenor; the third by Helenus and Deiphobus, two sons of Priam, and with them was the hero Asius Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whose great black horses of the breed that comes from the river Selleis had brought him from Arisbe.
-- The third was the knight Oeneus, my father's father, and he was the most val-iant of them all.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thrice he rang his bell, the third time furiously and continuously, but no one answered him.
-- "Now," said the Voice, as a third stone curved upward and hung in the air above the tramp.
-- "It's a fair do," said Mr. Thomas Marvel, sitting up, taking his wounded toe in hand and fixing his eye on the third missile.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this third lie, his nose became longer than ever, so long that he could not even turn around.
-- One pulled his hat off, another tugged at his coat, a third tried to paint a mustache under his nose.
-- A third time he repeated his performance.
-- At that second knock, a window on the third floor opened and the same Snail looked out.
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