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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a third call, more imperative than either of the two former, Nell felt obliged to comply, and this time a chorus was maintained not only by the two men together, but also by the third man on horseback, who being by his position debarred from a nearer participation in the revels of the night, roared when his companions roared, and rent the very air.
-- That is my third dead child, and last.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then obtained employment as servant in the house of the commissary of rural police, but was obliged to give up the position at the end of the third month, for the commissary, a fifty-year old man, pursued her with his attentions, and when, on one occasion, he became too persistent, she flared up, called him an old fool, and threw him to the ground.
-- After washing his hands with perfumed soap, carefully brushing his trimmed nails and washing his face and stout neck in a marble basin, he walked into a third room, where a shower-bath was ready.
-- And last of all came the third member of the court, that same Matvei Nikitich, who was always late.
-- The third prisoner was Maslova.
-- asked the presiding justice of the third prisoner.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, on the third day of my visit, that was how the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One presented itself to me!
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So you'll go very quickly through the Third Square by railway, I should think and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time.
-- Besides, I do so want to get into the Third Square!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On our little walk along the quays, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling me about the different ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage, and nationality, explaining the work that was going forward how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and a third making ready for sea and every now and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly.
-- And at the third "Ho!"
-- But on this point I was soon to be relieved, for Silver giving a little whistle, a third man strolled up and sat down by the party.
-- Away to the south-west of us we saw two low hills, about a couple of miles apart, and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog.
-- Third point, there are faithful hands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Conseil had one fault: he was ceremonious to a degree, and would never speak to me but in the third person, which was sometimes provoking.
-- "Conseil," I called a third time.
-- Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.
-- There was no third course.
-- During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less than a third of an inch thick resist a pressure of sixteen atmospheres.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was to drink or smoke hashish, the other was to be soothed by Birkin, and the third was women.
-- "There's a third one even to your two," said Birkin.
-- He seems to think that if you marry you can get through marriage into a third heaven, or something all very vague."
-- "Very!And who wants a third heaven?
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