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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her brother, her only means of communication, had not come to see her for four years, and had sent her no assistance; yet she prayed to God to unseal her father's eyes and to soften her brother's heart, and no accusations mingled with her prayers.
-- Vauquer saw nothing out of the common in the fact that a rich man had four or five mistresses; nay, she thought it very knowing of him to pass them off as his daughters.
-- At four o'clock that evening, when Goriot came in, he saw, by the light of two smoky lamps, that Victorine's eyes were red.
-- His position was not unlike that of some visitor permitted as a favor to inspect a private collection of curiosities, when by inadvertence he comes into collision with a glass case full of sculptured figures, and three or four heads, imperfectly secured, fall at the shock.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.
-- Madame Moritz, her mother, was a widow with four children, of whom Justine was the third.
-- It was your journal of the four months that preceded my cre-ation.
-- Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she saw us she said: 'In Heaven's name, what are you four doing home again?
-- I'll tend to you four in the morning!'
-- She was hot-tempered and easily plagued bythe frequent scrapes of her four sons, and while no one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, she felt that a licknow and then didn't do the boys any harm.
-- Let's ride across the swamp to AbelWynder's place and tell him we're all four home again and ready for drill."
-- Everyone liked the four Tarleton boys and the three Fontaines, butregretfully refused to elect them, because the Tarletons got lickered up too quickly and liked to skylark, and theFontaines had such quick, murderous tempers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others.
-- Before we departed from that spot, four soldiers standing in a ring, fired twice into the air.
-- Three or four soldiers who lay upon it in their great-coats were not much interested in us, but just lifted their heads and took a sleepy stare, and then lay down again.
-- I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'With all my heart,' said the cock: so they all four went on jollily together.
-- HOW CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET WENT TO VIST MR KORBES nother day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out Atogether; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove.
-- He inspect-ed each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: 'The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.'
-- said she, 'then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins,' and she left him no peace until he consented.
-- When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait any longer.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
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