five是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 五pron. /a. 五(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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- II In 1904, when Martin Arrowsmith was an Arts and Science Junior preparing for medical school, Winnemac had but five thousand students yet it was already brisk.
-- But no matter what they thought, they all ground at learning the lists of names which enable a man to crawl through examinations and become an Educated Person, with a market value of five dollars an hour.
-- She believed herself to be a connoisseur of literature; the fortunates to whom she gave her approval were Hardy, Meredith, Howells, and Thackeray, none of whom she had read for five years.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His parents were very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms.
-- Besides the two drunken men he had met on the steps, a group con-sisting of about five men and a girl with a concertina had gone out at the same time.
-- It was insufferably close, and so heavy with the fumes of spirits that five min-utes in such an atmosphere might well make a man drunk.
-- It seemed quite probable that he had not undressed or washed for the last five days.
-- 'That was five weeks ago, sir.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Consequently theadvertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss- for as to sherry, mypoor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then- and tenyears afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part ofthe country, to fifty members at half a crown a head, the winner tospend five shillings.
-- The caul was won, I recollect, by an oldlady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from itthe stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopencehalfpenny short- as it took an immense time and a great waste of 10arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.
-- 16'A hundred and five pounds a year,' said my mother.
-- During the five minutes or so that Mr. Chillip devoted to thedelivery of this oration, my aunt eyed him narrowly.
-- This is invented for me, and deliveredto me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into acheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucestercheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment'- at which Isee Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She recalled her past kindness the kindness, the affec-tion of sixteen years how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood.
-- 'At this moment, perhaps, Mr. Elton is shewing your picture to his mother and sisters, telling how much more beautiful is the original, and after being asked for it five or six times, allowing them to hear your name, your own dear name.'
-- He thought much of the evils of the journey for her, and not a little of the fatigues of his own horses and coachman who were to bring some of the party the last half of the way; but his alarms were needless; the sixteen miles being hap-pily accomplished, and Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, their five children, and a competent number of nursery-maids, all reaching Hartfield in safety.
-- Mr. Weston is rather an easy, cheerful-tem-pered man, than a man of strong feelings; he takes things as he finds them, and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other, depending, I suspect, much more upon what is called society for his comforts, that is, upon the power of eating and drinking, and playing whist with his neighbours five times a week, than upon family affection, or any thing that home affords.'
-- 'My poor dear Isabella,' said he, fondly taking her hand, and interrupting, for a few moments, her busy labours for some one of her five children 'How long it is, how terribly long since you were here!And how tired you must be after your journey!You must go to bed early, my dear and I rec-ommend a little gruel to you before you go. You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Five mornings and evenings passed.
-- "She fleed at him, and, to cut a long story short, he owned to having carried off five sack altogether, upon her promising not to persecute him.
-- Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock-frock, by the breadth of a hair.
-- "But you have every reason to believe that then ""I have every reason to hope that at the end of the five or six weeks, between this time and harvest, that you say you are going to be away from home, I shall be able to promise to be your wife," she said, firmly.
-- "A coronet with five points, and beneath, Cedit amor rebus 'Love yields to circumstance.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There are five windows in each story in the front of the house; all the blinds visible through the small square panes are drawn up awry, so that the lines are all at cross purposes.
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