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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be impossible for any man, I care not what his form of speech might be, to express more affection than the dealer in curiosities did, in these four words.
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- With these threats he clenched his hand again, and dexterously diving in between the elbows and catching the boy's head as it dodged from side to side, gave it three or four good hard knocks.
-- There were indeed four sides to the counting-house, but he avoided that one where the window was, deeming it probable that Quilp would be looking out of it.
-- The roads are closing so fast in every direction, that in a month's time, unless my aunt sends me a remittance, I shall have to go three or four miles out of town to get over the way.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two years afterward, while on his way to the war, he again visited his aunts, and during his four days' stay, consummated her ruin.
-- After a night's orgies there would come a deep slumber till three or four o'clock in the afternoon; then the weary rising from a dirty couch; seltzer-water to remove the effect of excessive drinking, coffee.
-- "Very well; so let it be the poison case," said the justice, considering that that case could be disposed of by four o'clock and make it possible for him to keep the appointment.
-- In the front row sat four women, either servants or factory employees, and two men, also workmen, who were evidently awed by the grandeur of the ornamentations, and were timidly whispering to each other.
-- "In their presence I took four ten ruble bills," she continued.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Clearly," the Time Traveller proceeded, "any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and Duration.
-- There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.
-- "Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time.
-- "But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions.
-- The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller's most constant guests and, arriving late, found four or five men already assembled in his drawing-room.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Four times round is enough for one dance,' Tweedledum panted out, and they left off dancing as suddenly as they had begun: the music stopped at the same moment.
-- But four young oysters hurried up,All eager for the treat:Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,Their shoes were clean and neat And this was odd, because, you know,They hadn't any feet.
-- Four other Oysters followed them,And yet another four;And thick and fast they came at last,And more, and more, and more All hopping through the frothy waves,And scrambling to the shore.
-- "Brillig" means four o'clock in the afternoon the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.'
-- Having four feet, these managed rather better than the foot-soldiers: but even they stumbled now and then; and it seemed to be a regular rule that, whenever a horse stumbled the rider fell off instantly.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, I see what you're at there"; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold.
-- On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions.
-- Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar.
-- Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.
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