forty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. /a. 四十pron. 四十(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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more chil-dren there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.
-- Work-men dig, workmen hammer, soldiers laugh and sing; in the morning, by the fountain, there is raised a gallows forty feet high, poisoning the water.'
-- He is hanged there forty feet high and is left hanging, poisoning the water.'
-- A rumour just lived in the village had a faint and bare existence there, as its people had that when the knife struck home, the faces changed, from fac-es of pride to faces of anger and pain; also, that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty feet above the fountain, they changed again, and bore a cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear for ever.
-- 'Age, about forty years; height, about five feet nine; black hair; complexion dark; generally, rather handsome visage; eyes dark, face thin, long, and sallow; nose aquiline, but not straight, having a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek; expression, therefore, sinister.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some forty had been taken on, and there were no more.
-- I can understand compulsory military service, which affects my children, my brothers, and myself, I am ready to deliberate on what concerns me; but deliberating on how to spend forty thousand roubles of district council money, or judging the half-witted Alioshka--I don't understand, and I can't do it."
-- It was nearly forty miles from Levin's Pokrovskoe.
-- Forty paces from him a carriage with four horses harnessed abreast was driving towards him along the grassy road on which he was walking.
-- The herd of improved cows such as Pava, the whole land ploughed over and enriched, the nine level fields surrounded with hedges, the two hundred and forty acres heavily manured, the seed sown in drills, and all the rest of it--it was all splendid if only the work had been done for themselves, or for themselves and comrades --people in sympathy with them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to be a man about forty years of age, with fine, handsome features, and a tall, well-shaped figure; his hair and whiskers were light, his forehead compact and unwrinkled, his face rather pale, his teeth magnificent.
-- Forty pounds?
-- Thirty or forty passengers had already descended, amongst them Colonel Stamp Proctor.
-- The two great sails were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour.
-- Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be going at less than forty miles an hour.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a youngster he had a fight or two with ruffling subalterns; once he spent a week in jail; often he was infuriated by discriminations against Jews: and at forty he went sadly off to the America which could never become militaristic or anti-Semitic--to the Hoagland Laboratory in Brooklyn, then to Queen City University as professor of bacteriology.
-- You yoost turn back one mile and turn to the right by the brick schoolhouse, and it's about forty rods up the road--the house with a cement silo.
-- It was forty minutes from the time of the telephone call when he rushed into a furrowed driveway and saw on the doorstep, against the lamplight, a stooped man who called, "The Doctor?
-- None of these novelties was so stirring as the Eugenic Family, who had volunteered to give, for a mere forty dollars a day, an example of the benefits of healthful practices.
-- In novels, these truth-seekers quested the "secret of life" in laboratories which did not seem to be provided with Bunsen flames or reagents; or they went, at great expense and much discomfort from hot trains and undesirable snakes, to Himalayan monasteries, to learn from unaseptic sages that the Mind can do all sorts of edifying things if one will but spend thirty or forty years in eating rice and gazing on one's navel.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And all that, let me tell you, she has simply made up for herself, and not simply out of wantonness, for the sake of bragging; no, she believes it all herself, she amuses herself with her own fancies, upon my word she does!And I don't blame her for it, no, I don't blame her!芒聙娄 Six days ago when I brought her my first earnings in full twenty-three roubles forty co-pecks altogether she called me her poppet: 'poppet,' said she, 'my little poppet.'
-- There were women of forty and some not more than seventeen; almost all had blackened eyes.
-- 'Oh, I know it does, but just tell me: a man of forty vio-lates a child of ten; was it environment drove him to it?'
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