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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
-- On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king's smith conveyed fourscore and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with six-and-thir-ty padlocks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Six windows on this side of the door, six on that side; a total of twelve in this wing, a total of twelve in the other wing; four-and-twenty carried over to the back wings.
-- All the mothers could (and did) dance, upon the slack wire and the tight-rope, and perform rapid acts on bare-backed steeds; none of them were at all particular in respect of showing their legs; and one of them, alone in a Greek chariot, drove six in hand into every town they came to.
-- For the same reason I don't make all my journey in one day, but divide it into two days, and get a bed to-night at the Travellers' Coffee House down by the railroad (a nice clean house), and go back Parliamentary, at six in the morning.
-- He got through the day as much (or as little) to his own satisfaction, as was to be expected under the fatiguing circumstances; and came riding back at six o'clock.
-- Six days, seven days, far on into another week.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle Hardwigg was once known to classify six hundred different geological specimens by their weight, hardness, fusibility, sound, taste, and smell.
-- The hamper was not very large but tolerably satisfactory, for I knew that in concentrated essence of meat and biscuit there was enough to last six months.
-- Good boots rendered watertight were to be found to the number of six in the tool box.
-- At six o'clock all our preparations were completed, and M. Fridriksson shook hands heartily with us.
-- The favorable moment did not come until six o'clock in the evening.
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:
-- Then he went back to Flanders: to be shipped over to Eng-land again six months later, more or less in bits.
-- 'He'll hardly know you've gone, after six months.
-- It's only six o'clock.
-- He thought of his boyhood in Tevershall, and of his five or six years of married life.
-- I have about six hundred a year, I wrote and asked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- the light of yesterday week, the light of six months ago, the light of six years ago.
-- So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London?
-- Nothing for the spent toiler to do, but to compare the monotony of his seventh day with the monotony of his six days, think what a weary life he led, and make the best of it or the worst, according to the probabilities.
-- What secular want could the million or so of human beings whose daily labour, six days in the week, lay among these Arcadian objects, from the sweet sameness of which they had no escape between the cradle and the grave what secular want could they possibly have upon their seventh day?
-- The business hours, allowing for intervals of invalid regimen of oysters and partridges, during which Clennam refreshed himself with a walk, were from ten to six for about a fortnight.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.
-- Six chil-dren are huddled into one bed to keep from freezing, for they have no fire.
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