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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have the best of evidence for this assertion: I was one of the four men.
-- But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, the number was three.
-- Neither Montgomery nor his companion took the slightest notice of me, but busied themselves in assisting and directing the four or five sailors who were unloading the goods.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
-- The re-sult was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost where he left ground.
-- And he went to the cave where she lived with Father Wolf, and he cried on her coat, while the four cubs howled miserably.
-- 'I am now teach-ing him the Master Words of the Jungle that shall protect him with the birds and the Snake People, and all that hunt on four feet, except his own pack.
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other, who appeared to share equally in the attention of the young officer, con-cealed her charms from the gaze of the soldiery with a care that seemed better fitted to the experience of four or five additional years.
-- But four parts are alto-gether necessary to the perfection of melody.
-- 'We are four able bodies, to one wounded man!'
-- As Hawkeye ceased speaking, four human heads could be seen peering above a few logs of drift-wood that had lodged on these naked rocks, and which had probably suggested the idea of the practicability of the hazardous undertaking.
-- At that moment the woods were filled with another burst of cries, and at the signal four savages sprang from the cov-er of the driftwood.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had three or four boon companions, who regarded him as their model, and at the head of whom he scoured the country, attending every scene of feud or merriment for miles round.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
-- It appeared that when everything was settled he would be four or five hundred pounds out of pocket.
-- My husband said he went to the club three or four nights a week to play bridge.
-- She had made a success of her business, and now had an office in Chancery Lane; she did little typing herself, but spent her time correcting the work of the four girls she employed.
-- I had not seen him for four years, and had never met his wife.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
-- At four o'clock the balloon was only 500 feet above the surface of the water.
-- But, when only two fathoms off, terrible cries resounded from four pairs of lungs at once.
-- But the car had contained five passengers, with a dog, and the balloon only left four on the shore.
-- Scarcely had the four castaways set foot on firm ground, than they all, thinking of the absent one, simultaneously exclaimed, "Perhaps he will try to swim to land!Let us save him!let us save him!"
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