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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first three or four hours—that is to say, for about sixty to eighty miles, as far as Cape Gregory—the coast on either side was low and sandy.
-- It was in that very spot that Sarmiento, a Spaniard, came in 1581, with four hundred emigrants, to establish a colony.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'About four feet high.'
-- They have looked after the Hall for four generations now.
-- It was a pleasant walk of four miles along the edge of the moor, leading me at last to a small gray hamlet, in which two larg-er buildings, which proved to be the inn and the house of Dr. Mortimer, stood high above the rest.
-- We are four able-bodied men in this household, so that we could take good care of ourselves, but I confess that I have had uneasy moments when I have thought of the Sta-pletons.
-- This is Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who lives some four miles to the south of us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Replying to them, he made known to the inquirer that he certainly had been long absent from Russia, more than four years; that he had been sent abroad for his health; that he had suffered from some strange nervous malady a kind of epilepsy, with convulsive spasms.
-- A fine fellow he was and had a property of four thousand souls in his day.'
-- They cost four hundred roubles more than I had, so I gave my name, and they trusted me.
-- 'Four years!and I was in the same place nearly all the time, in one village.'
-- You see I have not been in Russia for four years, and knew very little about anything when I left.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These had four leaders, and each of them had ten ships, with many Epeans on board.
-- Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven, 'Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him.'
-- Four are still in his stables, but he gave the other two to Aeneas.
-- On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.
-- On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse-hair that nod-ded menacingly above it; then he grasped two redoubtable bronze-shod spears, and the gleam of his armour shot from him as a flame into the firmament, while Juno and Minerva thundered in honour of the king of rich Mycene.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The visitor remained in the parlour until four o'clock, without giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion.
-- CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONS At four o'clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.
-- Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand!The huge multitude!Cheated!All my life it may take me!..
-- Then as swiftly came the sponge from the washstand; and then the chair, flinging the stranger's coat and trousers carelessly aside, and laughing drily in a voice singularly like the stranger's, turned itself up with its four legs at Mrs. Hall, seemed to take aim at her for a moment, and charged at her.
-- About noon he suddenly opened his parlour door and stood glaring fixedly at the three or four people in the bar.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
-- It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect.
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