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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Could she be stuck up, the stupid German, because she was mistress of the house, and had consented as a favour to help her poor lodgers!As a favour!Fancy that!Katerina Ivanovna's father who had been a colonel and almost a governor had some-times had the table set for forty persons, and then anyone like Amalia Ivanovna, or rather Ludwigovna, would not have been allowed into the kitchen.'
-- If anything were to happen (though indeed I don't believe in it and think you quite incapable of it), yet in case you were taken during these forty or fifty hours with the notion of putting an end to the business in some other way, in some fantastic fashion laying hands on yourself (it's an absurd proposition, but you must forgive me for it) do leave a brief but precise note, only two lines, and mention the stone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was still looking at the doorway,thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making herappearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there camewaddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursydwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face,a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, toenable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub-nose as sheogled Steerforth, she was obliged to meet the finger half-way andlay her nose against it.
-- He replied, that a good case of a disputedwill, where there was a neat little state of thirty or forty thousandpounds, was, perhaps, the best of all.
-- The waiter, who I supposed had lived in his church-warden's pewfor forty years, could not pursue such an insignificant subject.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.'
-- 'If I know myself, Harriet, mine is an active, busy mind, with a great many independent resources; and I do not per-ceive why I should be more in want of employment at forty or fifty than one-and-twenty.
-- Every letter from her is read forty times over; her compliments to all friends go round and round again; and if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher, or knit a pair of garters for her grandmother, one hears of nothing else for a month.
-- 'Ah!my dear, as Perry says, where health is at stake, noth-ing else should be considered; and if one is to travel, there is not much to chuse between forty miles and an hundred. Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.
-- The dream must be borne with, and Mr. Knightley must take his seat with the rest round the large modern circular ta-ble which Emma had introduced at Hartfield, and which none but Emma could have had power to place there and persuade her father to use, instead of the small-sized Pem-broke, on which two of his daily meals had, for forty years been crowded.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
-- Boldwood, it must be remembered, though forty years of age, had never before inspected a woman with the very centre and force of his glance; they had struck upon all his senses at wide angles.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer (_nee_ de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint- Marcel.
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
-- The two sets of rooms on the second floor were respectively occupied by an old man named Poiret and a man of forty or thereabouts, the wearer of a black wig and dyed whiskers, who gave out that he was a retired merchant, and was addressed as M. Vautrin.
-- Vautrin (the man of forty with the dyed whiskers) marked a transition stage between these two young people and the others.
-- Nobody knew that she herself possessed forty thousand francs, accumulated _sou by sou_, that was her secret; surely as far as money was concerned she was a very tolerable match.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I believe Captain Ashburn said just a while ago that General Johnston had only about forty thousand, countingthe deserters who were encouraged to come back to the colors by the last victory."
-- Poor Pork, trained for forty years to clean his shoes before enteringthe house, did not forget, even in a time like this.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had had them, to the best of my belief, from forty to fifty years.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
-- 14 Gulliver's TravelsIn the mean time, I felt at least forty more of the same kind (as I conjectured) following the first.
-- I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.
-- The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers.
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