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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fish was still breathing; it measured ten feet in length, and weighed more than six hundred pounds.
-- Again, Byron, Giraudais, Bougainville, Wallis, and Carteret, declared that the Patagonians are six feet six inches tall."
-- "Just this, madame; the Patagonians have short legs, and a large bust; or by way of a joke we might say that these natives are six feet high when they are sitting, and only five when they are standing."
-- Paganel was rather disconcerted at finding no way out to the other side of the chain, and laid his account with having to undergo great fatigue before the topmost peaks of the Andes could be reached, for their mean height is between eleven and twelve thousand six hundred feet.
-- The six men commenced their explorations, keeping constantly to the line they had made in their descent, examining closely every fissure, and going into the very depths of the abysses, choked up though they partly were with fragments of the plateau; and more than one came out again with garments torn to rags, and feet and hands bleeding.
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：
-- So it came to pass that one Michaelmas this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers being from home, as he well knew.
-- 'Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on ei-ther side.'
-- Among other things I bought these brown boots gave six dollars for them and had one stolen before ever I had them on my feet.'
-- I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful.
-- Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
-- "You would not be six hours later," said Willoughby, "if you were to defer your journey till our return."
-- It is a very large one, I know; and when I come to see you, I hope you will have new-furnished it, for it wanted it very much when I was there six years ago."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was ornamented by a small brass sign, and seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or seven floors.
-- She gained some inkling of the character of Hanson's life when, half asleep, she looked out into the dining-room at six o'clock and saw him silently finishing his breakfast.
-- When six o'clock came she hurried eagerly away, her arms aching and her limbs stiff from sitting in one position.
-- To-night he was particularly so, since his report to the company had been favourably commented upon, his new samples had been satisfactorily selected, and his trip marked out for the next six weeks.
-- "I haven't seen you in six weeks.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We got six thousand dollars apiece all gold.
-- This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.
-- One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hun-dred camels, and over a thousand 'sumter' mules, all loaded down with di'monds, and they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things.
-- I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.
-- You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turning once more to his friend, he asked him: "But are you sure that, in that country, each week is composed of six Saturdays and one Sunday?"
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