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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- y father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was Mthe third of five sons.
-- Five hundred carpenters and engineers were im-mediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had.
-- We made a long march the remain-ing part of the day, and, rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir.
-- Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a tur-ret at least five feet high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were five young Gradgrinds, and they were models every one.
-- No little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you are!No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
-- She was still doing this, five minutes afterwards.
-- said Mr. Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off.
-- And I find (Mr. M'Choakumchild said) that in a given time a hundred thousand persons went to sea on long voyages, and only five hundred of them were drowned or burnt to death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was about five inches by three and was scrawled over in the mos t extraordinary fashion.
-- "That is Sneffels--a mountain about five thousand feet in height, one of the most remarkable in the whole island, and certainly doomed to be the most celebrated in the world, for through its crater we shall reach the centre of the earth."
-- Next day, at five o'clock in the morning, the post chaise was at the door.
-- My lessons lasted five days, and at the end of that period, I ascended blithely enough, and found myself able to look down into the depths below without even winking, and with some degree of pleasure.
-- As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of the work.
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：
-- With his uncanny lame instinct for pub-licity, he had become in four or five years one of the best known of the young 'intellectuals'.
-- An' Tattie, I know, is five years yes, she's fifty-three last autumn.
-- He thought of his boyhood in Tevershall, and of his five or six years of married life.
-- Standard Five girls were having a singing lesson, just finishing the la-me-doh-la exercises and beginning a 'sweet children's song'.
-- She couldn't extricate herself all in five minutes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You, nine weeks and three days, at five this afternoon.'
-- 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?
-- At the quarter, it went off into a condition of deadly-lively importunity, urging the populace in a voluble manner to Come to church, Come to church, Come to church!At the ten minutes, it became aware that the congregation would be scanty, and slowly hammered out in low spirits, They won't come, they won't come, they won't come!At the five minutes, it abandoned hope, and shook every house in the neighbourhood for three hundred seconds, with one dismal swing per second, as a groan of despair.
-- But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam.
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