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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- "Well," said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, "she's been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip.
-- "Tell me directly what you've been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I'd have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
-- Biddy, who was the most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within five minutes.
-- Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five or six young ones lying there.
-- When he got down, the five of them were sitting screaming and lamenting quite piteously, each out- doing the other.
-- And as he sat there, the king of the ants (whose life he had saved) came to help him, with five thousand ants; and it was not long before they had found all the pearls and laid them in a heap.
-- So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.
-- The huntsman took up his bow, and at one shot struck all the five eggs as his father wished.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Couture; he had paid twelve hundred francs a year like a man to whom five louis more or less was a mere trifle.
-- His hair, worn in _ailes de pigeon_, and duly powdered every morning by the barber from the Ecole Polytechnique, described five points on his low forehead, and made an elegant setting to his face.
-- 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.
-- Vauquer saw nothing out of the common in the fact that a rich man had four or five mistresses; nay, she thought it very knowing of him to pass them off as his daughters.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they 27passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
-- She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
-- He has already had one or two little *wives*, but Louisa Biron is his favou-rite, a pretty little girl of five years of age.
-- About five in the morning I dis-covered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murderer's finger was on his neck.
-- It was about five in the morning when I entered my fa-ther's house.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their businessgenerally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of theirreach.
-- Gerald was a small man, little more than five feet tall, but so heavy of barrel and thick of neck that hisappearance, when seated, led strangers to think him a larger man.
-- That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes wasunknown to him; and his vanity would have suffered tremendously if he had found it out, for he liked to think thatwhen he bawled orders at the top of his voice everyone trembled and obeyed.
-- His five tall brothersgave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawnyfamily.
-- His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one,knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in His wisdom was going to allow him.
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