six是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 六pron. /a. 六(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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She left the next day, forgot to pay for six months' board, and left behind her wardrobe, cast-off clothing to the value of five francs.
-- Early one morning, some few months after the departure of the unlucky Countess who had managed to live for six months at the widow's expense, Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six years have passed since I resolved on my present undertaking.
-- I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years.
-- Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one in-delible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt.
-- Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces anddeep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue coats and mustard-coloredbreeches, they were as much alike as two bolls of cotton.
-- She never did beat Boyd much because he's the oldest and besides he's the runt ofthe litter," said Stuart, proud of his six feet two.
-- God'lmighty, Ma ought to stop licking us!We're nineteen and Tom's twenty-one, and she acts like we're six yearsold."
-- Dilcey was head woman andmidwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buyDilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.
-- "Mr. O'Hara," called Ellen as she saw the two coming up the driveway Ellen belonged to a generation that wasformal even after seventeen years of wedlock and the bearing of six children "Mr. O'Hara, there is illness at theSlattery house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- Come again after six days.
-- What lay heaviest on my mind was, the consideration that six days intervened between me and the day of departure; for I could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might happen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either greatly deteriorated or clean gone.
-- And now, those six days which were to have run out so slowly, had run out fast and were gone, and to-morrow looked me in the face more steadily than I could look at it.
-- As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feath-ers.
-- And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a gold-en crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six 52 Grimms' Fairy Talesfair maidens, each a head taller than the other.
-- The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five or six young ones lying there.
-- HOW CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET WENT TO VIST MR KORBES nother day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out Atogether; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove.
-- And six mice built a little hearse to carry her to her grave; and when it was ready they harnessed themselves before it, and Chanticleer drove them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune.
-- Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock.
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