fourth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第四， 四分之一，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the same junction point, theyoung Atlanta, a fourth railroad was constructed southwestward to Montgomery and Mobile.
-- GeneralSherman was trying the fourth side of the town again, striking again at the railroad at Jonesboro.
-- Yankees in largenumbers were on that fourth side of the town now, no skirmishing units or cavalry detachments but the massed Yankeeforces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIIIIt was in the fourth year of my apprenticeship to Joe, and it was a Saturday night.
-- Hereupon, a choleric gentleman, who had taken the fourth place on that seat, flew into a most violent passion, and said that it was a breach of contract to mix him up with such villainous company, and that it was poisonous, and pernicious, and infamous, and shameful, and I don't know what else.
-- Miss Havisham motioning to me for the third or fourth time to sit down, I took the chair by the dressing-table, which I had often seen her occupy.
-- It was on the third or fourth occasion of my going out walking in the Temple Gardens leaning on Joe's arm, that I saw this change in him very plainly.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One sprang under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the sixth under the washing-bowl, and the seventh into the clock-case.
-- The fourth had to carry in a dish that was covered, and the lord told the doctor that he was to show his skill, and guess what was beneath the cover.
-- The fourth was too pale, and she called him 'Wall-face.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty's auspicious reign.
-- I carefully preserved them all; and having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.
-- On the fourth side, which had no window, two strong staples were fixed, through which the person that carried me, when I had a mind to be on horseback, put a leathern belt, and buckled it about his waist.
-- This writer went through all the usual topics of European moralists, showing 'how diminu-tive, contemptible, and helpless an animal was man in his own nature; how unable to defend himself from inclemen-cies of the air, or the fury of wild beasts: how much he was excelled by one creature in strength, by another in speed, by a third in foresight, by a fourth in industry.'
-- I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master, and a fourth part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the fourth day, Rachael, with unabated confidence, but considering her despatch to have miscarried, went up to the Bank, and showed her letter from him with his address, at a working colony, one of many, not upon the main road, sixty miles away.
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：
-- When the baby could toddle she'd keep both the children for the day, while she, Ivy Bolton, went to Sheffield, and -attended classes in ambulance, and then the fourth year she even took a nursing course and got qualified.
-- But the fourth day she was terribly unsettled and uneasy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man, taking the right-hand side of the yard, turned in at the third or fourth doorway, and began to ascend the stairs.
-- There was a fourth and most original figure in the Patriarchal tent, who also appeared before dinner.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him.
-- Having copied her novel for the fourth time, read it to all her confidential friends, and submitted it with fear and trembling to three publish-ers, she at last disposed of it, on condition that she would cut it down one third, and omit all the parts which she par-ticularly admired.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hardly had they pulled out from under the ship's lee, when a fourth keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread themselves widely, so as to cover a large expanse of water.
-- This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.
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