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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more ar-rows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
-- He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.
-- It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive.
-- The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.
-- said Mr. Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off.
-- 'Offered at the Garters four times last night, and never done 'em once,' said Master Kidderminster.
-- 'Why then, sir,' said Stephen, turning white, and motioning with that right hand of his, as if he gave everything to the four winds, ''tis a muddle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To prove the excellent Hardwigg's impatience, I solemnly declare that when the flowers in the drawing-room pots began to grow, he rose every morning at four o'clock to make them grow quicker by pulling the leaves!
-- He did not pretend, like a certain learned pundit, to speak the two thousand languages and four thousand idioms made use of in different parts of the globe, but he did know all the more important ones.
-- Four different idioms in this absurd phrase.
-- Four horses were prepared for us, two to carry the baggage, and two to bear the important weight of myself and uncle.
-- There were, in fact, four distinct groups.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The four men smoked.
-- How many evenings had Connie sat and listened to the manifestations of these four men!these, and one or two oth-ers.
-- With his uncanny lame instinct for pub-licity, he had become in four or five years one of the best known of the young 'intellectuals'.
-- The butty in front shouted to them all to lie down quick, there were four of them.
-- Yes, she had to go every Monday morning down to the offices, and stand there a couple of hours waiting her turn; yes, for almost four years she went every Monday.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a broad strong ledge of stone to this grating where the bottom of it was let into the masonry, three or four feet above the ground.
-- Slow steps began ascending the stairs; the prattle of a sweet little voice mingled with the noise they made; and the prison-keeper appeared carrying his daughter, three or four years old, and a basket.
-- I had lived in the house some four months when Monsieur Henri Barronneau had the misfortune to die; at any rate, not a rare misfortune, that.
-- She gave him one glassy kiss, and four stiff fingers muffled in worsted.
-- Its movables were ugly old chairs with worn-out seats, and ugly old chairs without any seats; a threadbare patternless carpet, a maimed table, a crippled wardrobe, a lean set of fire-irons like the skeleton of a set deceased, a washing-stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds, and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating in a spike, as if for the dismal accommodation of lodgers who might prefer to impale themselves.
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