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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third flint fell.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not I!You have a third between you.'
-- 'There's a Third with a Whip now,' said Montgomery.
-- 'The Third with the Whip, he that walks weeping into the sea, has a thin white face.'
-- HEN I saw Montgomery swallow a third dose of bran-Wdy, I took it upon myself to interfere.
-- Two of the brutes were Wolf-beasts, and came forward with quiver-ing nostrils and glittering eyes; the third was the horrible nondescript of bear and bull.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Where is Nagaina, for the third time?'
-- Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the veranda as hard as he could put foot to the ground.
-- The third elephant watched the two go away, snorted, wheeled round, and took his own path.
-- 'Those camels have racketed through our lines again the third time this week.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed that the inci-dents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country that neither was destined to re-tain.
-- A third wore trappings and arms of an officer of the staff; while the rest, from the plainness of the housings, and the traveling mails with which they were encumbered, were evidently fitted for the reception of as many menials, who were, seeming-ly, already waiting the pleasure of those they served.
-- The third day from the capture of the fort was drawing to a close, but the business of the narrative must still detain the reader on the shores of the 'holy lake.'
-- A third colored the post with stripes of a dark red paint; all which indications of a hostile design in the leaders of the nation were received by the men without in a gloomy and ominous silence.
-- The first close was solemn, and intended to convey the idea of veneration; the second descriptive, bordering on the alarming; and the third was the well-known and terrific war-whoop, which burst from the lips of the young warrior, like a combination of all the frightful sounds of battle.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He was third mate on the Tropic Bird.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding gazed for some time at this splendid constellation, which has at its summit and at its base two stars of the first magnitude, at its left arm a star of the second, and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude.
-- In order to fix the angle obtained, he fastened with thorns the two pieces of wood on a third placed transversely, so that their separation should be properly maintained.
-- "We have only gone a third of the way," observed Herbert.
-- cried Pencroft, when for the third time he drew one of the animals out of the pit.
-- A seat in the stern, a second seat in the middle to preserve the equilibrium, a third seat in the bows, rowlocks for the two oars, a scull to steer with, completed the little craft, which was twelve feet long, and did not weigh more than two hundred pounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night, the third after Nelly's interview with Mrs Quilp, the old man, who had been weak and ill all day, said he should not leave home.
-- Drawing it off into the glasses with the skill of a practised hand, and mixing it with about a third part of water, Mr Quilp assigned to Richard Swiveller his portion, and lighting his pipe from an end of a candle in a very old and battered lantern, drew himself together upon a seat and puffed away.
-- Into one little chamber of this temple, he dropped an egg; into another some coffee; into a third a compact piece of raw steak from a neat tin case; into a fourth, he poured some water.
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