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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He tells us that it comprises five different zones—the zone of the vines, the zone of the laurels, the zone of the pines, the zone of the Alpine heaths, and, lastly, the zone of sterility.
-- "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."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- '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.
-- Yet such was the fright I had taken of the Moors, and the dreadful apprehensions I had of falling into their hands, that I would not stop, or go on shore, or come to an anchor; the wind continuing fair till I had sailed in that manner five days; and then the wind shifting to the southward, I con-cluded also that if any of our vessels were in chase of me, they also would now give over; so I ventured to make to the coast, and came to an anchor in the mouth of a little riv-er, I knew not what, nor where, neither what latitude, what country, what nation, or what river.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Certainly and I think I may afford to give them five hundred pounds a-piece.
-- Altogether, they will have five hundred a-year amongst them, and what on earth can four women want for more than that? They will live so cheap!Their housekeeping will be nothing at all.
-- In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.
-- His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome, his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.
-- His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anything was good enough so long as it paid--say, five dollars a week to begin with.
-- At half-past five she reached home, and at six her determination was hardened.
-- It had a large bay window bulging out from the second floor, and was graced in front by a small grassy plot, twenty- five feet wide and ten feet deep.
-- Hale received a salary of forty- five dollars a week.
-- It was five in the afternoon when they met; it was seven-thirty before the last bone was picked.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three can-dles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay.
-- But Tom give him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people.
-- We got five catfish off the lines and went home.
-- If you stood four or five foot away and didn't know it was sawed, you wouldn't never notice it; and besides, this was the back of the cabin, and it warn't likely anybody would go fooling around there.
-- Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He waited two minutes--nothing; five minutes--nothing; ten minutes--nothing.
-- And after four or five sneezes, he opened wide his arms and said to Pinocchio: "You are a brave boy!Come to my arms and kiss me!"
-- CHAPTER 12 Fire Eater gives Pinocchio five gold pieces for his father, Geppetto; but the Marionette meets a Fox and a Cat and follows them.
-- Here, take these five gold pieces.
-- "I am very sorry to make your mouth water, but these, as you know, are five new gold pieces."
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