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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it is, I don't suppose he gets a cent over four thousand!"
-- He had appropriated four dollars for the orgy, strictly including the tip, and his standard of good food was that he must spend every cent of the four dollars.
-- It was almost four when Martin returned from taking Leora home and sagged into bed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the 'Dead House,' and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion.
-- The fits occurred three or four times a year and were more fre-quent in periods of great strain.
-- Three or four door-keepers were employed on the building.
-- 'Give me four roubles for it, I shall redeem it, it was my father's.
-- I did make an effort four years ago to give her a course of geography and universal history, but as I was not very well up in those subjects myself and we had no suitable books, and what books we had 芒聙娄 hm, anyway we have not even those now, so all our instruction came to an end.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each of them was lyingon at least four chairs, and had a large rough jacket on.
-- There were three or four of us, counting me.
-- and I saw, from behind my aunt, a sortof hurried battle-piece, in which the donkey stood resistingeverybody, with all his four legs planted different ways, whileJanet tried to pull him round by the bridle, Mr. Murdstone tried tolead him on, Miss Murdstone struck at Janet with a parasol, andseveral boys, who had come to see the engagement, shoutedvigorously.
-- But at no time of my life,' said Mr. Micawber, 'have Ienjoyed a higher degree of satisfaction than in pouring my griefs (ifI may describe difficulties, chiefly arising out of warrants ofattorney and promissory notes at two and four months, by thatword) into the bosom of my friend Copperfield.'
-- But I was still more surprised,when I went to the little hotel next day at the appointed dinner-hour, which was four o'clock, to find, from what Mr. Micawbersaid, that he had gone home with Uriah, and had drunk brandy-and-water at Mrs. Heep's.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said Mr. Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing.'
-- 'Ever since the day about four years ago that Miss Taylor and I met with him in Broadway Lane, when, be-cause it began to drizzle, he darted away with so much gallantry, and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer Mitchell's, I made up my mind on the subject.
-- Your time has been properly and delicately spent, if you have been endeav-ouring for the last four years to bring about this marriage.
-- I should have made a good likeness of her, if she would have sat longer, but she was in such a hurry to have me draw her four children that she would not be quiet.
-- Then, here come all my attempts at three of those four children; there they are, Henry and John and Bella, from one end of the sheet to the other, and any one of them might do for any one of the rest.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new-born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full-grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of the legs collectively, which constituted the animal's entire body just at present.
-- In the morning a regiment of cavalry had left the town, and a sergeant and his party had been beating up for recruits through the four streets.
-- By the time he had walked three or four miles every shape in the landscape had assumed a uniform hue of blackness.
-- From the walls an overhanging thatched roof sloped up to a point in the centre, upon which rose a small wooden lantern, fitted with louvre-boards on all the four sides, and from these openings a mist was dimly perceived to be escaping into the night air.
-- "Then I malted at Durnover four year, and four year turnip-hoeing; and I was fourteen times eleven months at Millpond St. Jude's" (nodding north-west-by-north).
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two of the four rooms on the third floor were also let--one to an elderly spinster, a Mlle.
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