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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
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：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three climbed up the long staircase until they reached the fourth floor where Madame Terentieff lived.
-- They stopped before a somewhat low doorway on the fourth floor.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was coming on for the fourth time, as though he were a god, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said, 'Take heed, son of Tydeus, and draw off; think not to match your-self against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twice every day for three days this was repeated; but on the fourth morning a confused wrangling, and then a scuffling was heard, as the customary summons was delivered; and suddenly four men burst up from the forecastle, saying they were ready to turn to.
-- "On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which seemed to have touched at a low isle of corals.
-- For blacks, the year's calendar should show naught but three hundred and sixty-five Fourth of Julys and New Year's Days.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the BOULANGER ' 'If he had had any compassion for ME,' cried her hus-band impatiently, 'he would not have danced half so much!
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was not till the fourth year that I could allow myself the least grain of this corn to eat, and even then but sparingly, as I shall say afterwards, in its order; for I lost all that I sowed the first season by not observing the prop-er time; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done; of which in its place.
-- In the middle of this work I finished my fourth year in this place, and kept my anniversary with the same devotion, and with as much comfort as ever before; for, by a constant study and serious application to the Word of God, and by the assistance of His grace, I gained a different knowledge from what I had before.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the third or fourth morning after their being thus resettled in Berkeley Street, Mrs. Jennings, on returning from her ordinary visit to Mrs. Palmer, entered the drawing-room, where Elinor was sitting by herself, with an air of such hurrying importance as prepared her to hear something wonderful; and giving her time only to form that idea, began directly to justify it, by saying,"Lord!my dear Miss Dashwood!have you heard the news?"
-- Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She met with painful rebuffs, the most trying of which had been in a manufacturing cloak house, where she had gone to the fourth floor to inquire.
-- She hastened around to the side entrance and was taken up by the elevator to the fourth floor.
-- When she stepped out on the fourth floor there was no one at hand, only great aisles of boxes piled to the ceiling.
-- On the fourth day she was down town all day, having borrowed ten cents for lunch from Minnie.
-- In this manner the second, third, and fourth months passed.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Watson's nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it.
-- 'Well, neither does William Fourth have to go to the sea to get a sea bath.'
-- 'Don't they give 'em holidays, the way we do, Christmas and New Year's week, and Fourth of July?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fourth time, before he had time to lose his courage, he grasped the knocker and made a faint sound with it.
-- That brave little animal, the Snail, had taken exactly nine hours to go from the fourth floor to the street.
-- The fourth time, at a look from his master he leaped through it, but as he did so his hind legs caught in the ring and he fell to the floor in a heap.
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