four是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 四pron. /a. 四(个， 只…)，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was en- deavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quar- ters.
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
-- But if they had been twice as many ah, four times old Fezziwig would have been a match for them, and so would Mrs Fezziwig.
-- He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps.
-- He looked so irresistibly pleas-ant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said,' Good morning, sir.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- With the same intention, he drew the key across 52 A tale of two citiesit, three or four times, before he put it clumsily into the lock, and turned it as heavily as he could.
-- He had taken service with the pris-oner, in good faith and simplicity, four years ago.
-- On the after-noon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had roiled over the trial for treason, and carried it, as to the public interest and memory, far out to sea, Mr. Jarvis Lorry walked along the sunny streets from Clerkenwell where he lived, on his way to dine with the Doctor.
-- Monseigneur could swal-low a great many things with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly swallowing France; but, his morning's chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What delightful stories you know,' said the Mice: and the next night they came with four other little Mice, who were to hear what the Tree recounted: and the more he re-lated, the more he remembered himself; and it appeared as if those times had really been happy times.
-- Near the green lawn papa's walking-stick was tied, and for the little ones it seemed to be endowed with life; for as soon as they got astride it, the round polished knob was turned into a magnificent neighing head, a long black mane fluttered in the breeze, and four slender yet strong legs shot out.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I tell you what; if you want to see them, they're sure now to be at the Zoological Gardens from four to five.
-- Chapter 9 At four o'clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledge at the Zoological Gardens, and turned along the path to the frozen mounds and the skating ground, knowing that he would certainly find her there, as he had seen the Shtcherbatskys' carriage at the entrance.
-- Chapter 33 Alexey Alexandrovitch came back from the meeting of the ministers at four o'clock, but as often happened, he had not time no come in to her.
-- And then eight hundred acres of wheat, three hundred of potatoes, and four hundred of clover, and not one acre exhausted.
-- There was the report of four shots, and like swallows the snipe turned swift somersaults in the air and vanished from sight.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pardon me, monsieur, it is impossible ""You are four minutes too slow.
-- "Heaven preserve me!But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible."
-- "Well, Mr. Fogg," said he, "it shall be so: I will wager the four thousand on it."
-- I have calculated, monsieur, that I lose two shillings every four and twenty hours, exactly sixpence more than I earn; and you will understand that the longer our journey "Did Fix pay any attention to Passepartout's trouble about the gas?
-- He made his four hearty meals every day, regardless of the most persistent rolling and pitching on the part of the steamer; and he played whist indefatigably, for he had found partners as enthusiastic in the game as himself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clif Clawson, who combined a brisk huckstering with his jokes, sold to Fatty for four dollars a History of Medicine which he had bought, second- hand, for two, and while Fatty never read it, never conceivably could read it, the possession of the fat red book made him feel learned.
-- Above, there were four men to a bedroom, and the beds were iron double-deckers, like a steerage.
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