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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gardiner, a stately old lady, greeted them kindly and handed them over to the eldest of her six daughters.
-- There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still and and loved her pets as well as ever.
-- Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluc-tant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam.
-- It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.
-- And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and having now led for many years the bold life of the fishery in the ships of owners uncommonly heedful of what manner of men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks.
-- Some considering touch of humanity was in him; for at times like these, he usually abstained from patrolling the quarter-deck; because to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been on the crunching teeth of sharks.
-- His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So you'll begin to pick oakum to-morrow morning at six o'clock,' added the surly one in the white waistcoat.
-- For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation.
-- It was most intolerably dirty; for it was Monday morning; and it had been tenanted by six drunken people, who had been locked up, elsewhere, since Saturday night.
-- Oliver looked very worn and shadowy from sickness, and made an ineffectual attempt to stand up, out of respect to his benefactor, which terminated in his sinking back into the chair again; and the fact is, if the truth must be told, that Mr. Brownlow's heart, being large enough for any six ordinary old gentlemen of humane disposition, forced a supply of tears into his eyes, by some hydraulic process which we are not sufficiently philosophical to be in a condition to explain.
-- He had had a fever six times; he wasn't recommended to mercy on that account.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girls grieved over such a number of la-dies, but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only six with him from London his five sisters and a cousin.
-- I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals.'
-- Chapter 8 t five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-Apast six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner.
-- 'Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.'
-- 'I am no longer surprised at your knowing ONLY six ac-complished women.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts did, as it were, endea-vour to return again sometimes; but I shook them off, and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and company, soon mastered the return of those fits - for so I called them; and I had in five or six days got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that resolved not to be troubled with it could desire.
-- 'Yes,' says he, 'I'll bring some;' and accordingly he brought a great leather pouch, which held a pound and a half of powder, or rather more; and another with shot, that had five or six pounds, with some bullets, and put all into the boat.
-- When this cargo arrived I thought my fortune made, for I was surprised with the joy of it; and my stood steward, the captain, had laid out the five pounds, which my friend had sent him for a present for himself, to purchase and bring me over a servant, under bond for six years' service, and would not accept of any consideration, except a little tobacco, which I would have him accept, being of my own produce.
-- Our ship was about one hundred and twenty tons bur-den, carried six guns and fourteen men, besides the master, his boy, and myself.
-- As for liquors, I found several, cases of bot-tles belonging to our skipper, in which were some cordial waters; and, in all, about five or six gallons of rack.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland.
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