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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Say that Mrs Quilp lives five year, or only four, you'll be just the proper age for me.
-- It was nearly five o'clock in the afternoon, when drawing near another cluster of labourers' huts, the child looked wistfully in each, doubtful at which to ask for permission to rest awhile, and buy a draught of milk.
-- 'A matter of good five mile, my dear,' was the reply, 'but you're not going on to-night?'
-- 'Five shillings,' returned Mr Slum, using his pencil as a toothpick.
-- Well, this was her sister, her little sister, much younger than Nell, whom she had not seen (so the story went afterwards) for five years, and to bring whom to that place on a short visit, she had been saving her poor means all that time.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus five children died.
-- The fog was so dense that when five feet away he saw only a darkening mass from which a red, seemingly large, light of the lamp was reflected.
-- The height of Therapout Smelkoff was six feet five inches.
-- But, seeing on the clock that it was five minutes of three, he decided to pass over to a statement of the case.
-- "It is five o'clock, gentlemen," said one of the jury.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller's most constant guests and, arriving late, found four or five men already assembled in his drawing-room.
-- "It troubled her greatly, but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed, and for five of the nights of our acquaintance, including the last night of all, she slept with her head pillowed on my arm.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day.'
-- Now here, we mostly have days and nights two or three at a time, and sometimes in the winter we take as many as five nights together for warmth, you know.'
-- 'Are five nights warmer than one night, then?'
-- 'Five times as warm, of course.'
-- 'But they should be five times as cold, by the same rule ''Just so!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
-- Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar.
-- Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.
-- The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, "Bones, his pile."
-- It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbours, and a hill in the centre part marked "The Spy-glass."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia.
-- There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean.
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