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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that time there must have been five hundred dining-rooms in London decorated in exactly the same manner.
-- It appeared that when everything was settled he would be four or five hundred pounds out of pocket.
-- Chapter XVIIIt was about five years after this that I decided to live in Paris for a while.
-- The man I'm thinking of only began painting five years ago."
-- He wore the same suit that I had seen him in five years before; it was torn and stained, threadbare, and it hung upon him loosely, as though it had been made for someone else.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
-- But the storm had raged five days already, and the first symptoms were manifested on the 18th.
-- The five voyagers had hoisted themselves into the net, and clung to the meshes, gazing at the abyss.
-- But the car had contained five passengers, with a dog, and the balloon only left four on the shore.
-- Their aerial voyage had lasted five days.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He has five fingers, he is a five-man like me,' said the Ape-man.
-- Sixteen years being bullied by nurses and schoolmasters at their own sweet will; five in London grinding hard at med-icine, bad food, shabby lodgings, shabby clothes, shabby vice, a blunder, I didn't know any better, and hustled off to this beastly island.
-- I saw him administer a dose of the raw brandy to M'ling, and saw the five figures melt into one vague patch.
-- The black group broke up into five separate figures, and wound slowly away from me along the band of shining beach.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The re-sult was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost where he left ground.
-- He had almost forgot-ten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake.
-- A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the sum-merhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome.
-- A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
-- Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kitti-wakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and so Limmershin told me for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has already been mentioned that the dis-tance between these two posts was less than five leagues.
-- At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
-- The other, who appeared to share equally in the attention of the young officer, con-cealed her charms from the gaze of the soldiery with a care that seemed better fitted to the experience of four or five additional years.
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
-- * Mingo was the Delaware term of the Five Nations.
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