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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots.
-- At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst the passengers were assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on the hull of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle.
-- If I can only approach within four harpoons' length of it!"
-- The electric light flooded everything; it was shed from four unpolished globes half sunk in the volutes of the ceiling.
-- We walked with a regular step, which rang upon the ground with astonishing intensity; the slightest noise was transmitted with a quickness to which the ear is unaccustomed on the earth; indeed, water is a better conductor of sound than air, in the ratio of four to one.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The four women parted.
-- It was a quiet and ordinary breakfast, the four men all looking very clean and bathed.
-- "Yes I've about four hundred a year.
-- Ursula took her place at his side, they gave their tickets to the policeman, and passed in on to the grass, four abreast; the tall, hot, ruddy-dark man with his narrow boyish brow drawn with irritation, the fresh-faced, easy woman, perfectly collected though her hair was slipping on one side, then Gudrun, her eyes round and dark and staring, her full soft face impassive, almost sulky, so that she seemed to be backing away in antagonism even whilst she was advancing; and then Ursula, with the odd, brilliant, dazzled look on her face, that always came when she was in some false situation.
-- Birkin brought the lanterns from the bigger boat, and the four shadowy white figures gathered round, to light them.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half a dozen four footed fiends, of various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common centre.
-- This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four miles' walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow shower.
-- However, in my dream, Jabez had a full and attentive congregation; and he preached good God!what a sermon; divided into FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY parts, each fully equal to an ordinary address from the pulpit, and each discussing a separate sin!Where he searched for them, I cannot tell.
-- Sir,' I exclaimed, 'sitting here within these four walls, at one stretch, I have endured and forgiven the four hundred and ninety heads of your discourse.
-- The four hundred and ninety first is too much.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.
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