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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three strides he took, and with the fourth he reached his goal Aegae, where is his glittering golden palace, imperishable, in the depths of the sea.
-- The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth.
-- When Patroclus was coming on like a god for yet a fourth time, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said, 'Draw back, noble Patroclus, it is not your lot to sack the city of the Trojan chieftains, nor yet will it be that of Achilles who is a far better man than you are.'
-- When he rushed forward for the fourth time as though he were a god, he shouted aloud saying, 'Hound, this time too you have escaped death but of a truth it came exceedingly near you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
-- N the early morning (it was the second morning after Imy recovery, and I believe the fourth after I was picked up), I awoke through an avenue of tumultuous dreams, dreams of guns and howling mobs, and became sensible of a hoarse shouting above me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan's question to Akela: 'What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?'
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：
-- It was in the afternoon of the fifth day of the siege, and the fourth of his own service in it, that Major Heyward profited by a parley that had just been beaten, by repairing to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, to breathe the cool air from the lake, and to take a survey of the progress of the siege.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a stew of tripe,' said the landlord smacking his lips, 'and cow-heel,' smacking them again, 'and bacon,' smacking them once more, 'and steak,' smacking them for the fourth time, 'and peas, cauliflowers, new potatoes, and sparrow-grass, all working up together in one delicious gravy.'
-- CHAPTER 39All that day, though he waited for Mr Abel until evening, Kit kept clear of his mother's house, determined not to anticipate the pleasures of the morrow, but to let them come in their full rush of delight; for to-morrow was the great and long looked-for epoch in his life to-morrow was the end of his first quarter the day of receiving, for the first time, one fourth part of his annual income of Six Pounds in one vast sum of Thirty Shillings to-morrow was to be a half-holiday devoted to a whirl of entertainments, and little Jacob was to know what oysters meant, and to see a play.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nothing so refreshes one as a cold-water bath and exercise," he thought, feeling with his left hand, on the fourth finger of which was a gold ring, the biceps of his right arm.
-- The fourth question, relating to Bochkova, was answered "Guilty," but at the insistence of the laborer, she was recommended to the mercy of the court.
-- The fourth of the women who stood at the window, and was undergoing sentence for illicit trading in spirits, was a squat little country woman with bulging eyes and kindly face.
-- In the fourth cell a broad-faced, pale-looking man sat with lowered head, his elbows resting on his knees.
-- Sundays they get a fourth dish--dessert.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it.
-- You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?"
-- "But," said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, "if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different?
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：
-- So you'll go very quickly through the Third Square by railway, I should think and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time.
-- 'However, it'll take us into the Fourth Square, that's some comfort!'
-- After the fourth or fifth tumble he reached the turn, and then she waved her handkerchief to him, and waited till he was out of sight.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the bottom was a fourth partition that separated this office from the engine-room.
-- Science has decided on the globe the direction of five principal currents: one in the North Atlantic, a second in the South, a third in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean.
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 result was a nasty and insane scene with Halliday on the fourth evening.
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