fifth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第五 n. 五分之一，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the fifth came evil tidings, not from the North but from the West.
-- Melanie, who was now in her fifth month, had not been out in public or received guests for weeks,and she was appalled at the idea.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- answered the peasant: 'but he only says four things, and the fifth he keeps to himself.'
-- The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said: 'First, we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad.'
-- So they ate, and after that they bargained how much the miller was to give for the fifth prophecy, until they agreed on three hundred talers.
-- One sprang under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the sixth under the washing-bowl, and the seventh into the clock-case.
-- Then the father took the eggs, and put one on each corner of the table, and the fifth in the middle, and said to the huntsman, 'Cut all the eggs in two pieces at one shot.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, not to trouble the reader with a particular account of my distresses, let it suffice, that on the fifth day Iarrived at the last island in my sight, which lay south-south-east to the former.
-- On the fifth of December, 1715, we cast anchor in the Downs, about nine in the morn- 371ing, and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Rotherhith.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While Nickits (as a man came into my office, and told me yesterday), Nickits, who used to act in Latin, in the Westminster School plays, with the chief-justices and nobility of this country applauding him till they were black in the face, is drivelling at this minute drivelling, sir! in a fifth floor, up a narrow dark back street in Antwerp.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Mr Tite Barnacle, Mr Arthur Clennam made his fifth inquiry one day at the Circumlocution Office; having on previous occasions awaited that gentleman successively in a hall, a glass case, a waiting room, and a fire-proof passage where the Department seemed to keep its wind.
-- I don't like to think of the way in which that unfortunate child, with all that passion and protest in her, feels when she hears the Fifth Commandment on a Sunday.
-- 'To paint,' said she, 'the emotions of that morning when all was marble within and Mr F.'s Aunt followed in a glass-coach which it stands to reason must have been in shameful repair or it never could have broken down two streets from the house and Mr F.'s Aunt brought home like the fifth of November in a rush-bottomed chair I will not attempt, suffice it to say that the hollow form of breakfast took place in the dining-room downstairs that papa partaking too freely of pickled salmon was ill for weeks and that Mr F. and myself went upon a continental tour to Calais where the people fought for us on the pier until they separated us though not for ever that was not yet to be.'
-- Ah, but he was a brave boy to smoke!Ah, but he lived in a sweet bachelor-apartment furnished, on the fifth floor, above the wood and charcoal merchant's, and the dress-maker's, and the chair-maker's, and the maker of tubs where I knew him too, and wherewith his cognac and tobacco, he had twelve sleeps a day and one fit, until he had a fit too much, and ascended to the skies.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Act fifth opened with a stormy scene between Zara and Don Pedro.
-- The family cardcase having done its duty the girls walked on, and Jo uttered another thanksgiving on reaching the fifth house, and being told that the young ladies were -engaged.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon."
-- On the fifth morning three others of the mutineers bolted up into the air from the desperate arms below that sought to restrain them.
-- In length, the Sperm Whale's skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two feet; so that when fully invested and extended in life, he must have been ninety feet long; for in the whale, the skeleton loses about one fifth in length compared with the living body.
-- Out of this revelation, part by part, at last came out the four acts of the gladness, and the one long, and as yet uncatastrophied fifth act of the grief of his life's drama.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the BOULANGER ' 'If he had had any compassion for ME,' cried her hus-band impatiently, 'he would not have danced half so much!
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In passing through Fifth Avenue, south towards Van Buren Street, where she intended to take a car, she passed the door of a large wholesale shoe house, through the plate-glass windows of which she could see a middle-aged gentleman sitting at a small desk.
-- Carrie went straight forward until she crossed the river, and then turned into Fifth Avenue.
-- It was with weak knees and a slight catch in her breathing that she came up to the great shoe company at Adams and Fifth Avenue and entered the elevator.
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