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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a tall, thin, withered-looking man, about forty years of age, and resembled a long nail with a big head.
-- Anyway, though we are forty miles off, yet I tell you the Peak of Teneriffe is quite visible yonder above the horizon."
-- They were now on the summit of the Nevadas of the Cordilleras, and could see over an area of forty miles.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And lo!close under our lee, not forty fathoms off, a gigantic Sperm Whale lay rolling in the water like the capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Ethiopian hue, glistening in the sun's rays like a mirror.
-- Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
-- Look at him; he stands upright in the tossed bow of the flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet ahead.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The kind and blessed gentleman which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own: are a going to 'prentice' you: and to set you up in life, and make a man of you: although the expense to the parish is three pound ten!--three pound ten, Oliver!--seventy shillins--one hundred and forty sixpences!--and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can't love.'
-- 'I know what children are, sir; and have done these forty years; and people who can't say the same, shouldn't say anything about them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The generous treatment the captain gave me I can nev-er enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax - for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Bra-zils.
-- I finished this work in about a fortnight; and I think my powder, which in all was about two hundred and forty pounds weight, was divided in not less than a hundred parcels.
-- For example, I was full two and forty days in making a board for a long shelf, which I wanted in my cave; whereas, two sawyers, with their tools and a saw-pit, would have cut six of them out of the same tree in half a day.
-- Upon the whole, I found that the forty bushels of barley and rice were much more than I could consume in a year; so I resolved to sow just the same quantity every year that I sowed the last, in hopes that such a quantity would fully provide me with bread, &c. All the while these things were doing, you may be sure my thoughts ran many times upon the prospect of land which I had seen from the other side of the island; and I was not without secret wishes that I were on shore there, fancy-ing that, seeing the mainland, and an inhabited country, I might find some way or other to convey myself further, and perhaps at last find some means of escape.
-- However, though my little periagua was finished, yet the size of it was not at all answerable to the design which I had in view when I made the first; I mean of venturing over to the TERRA FIRMA, where it was above forty miles broad; accordingly, the smallness of my boat assisted to put an end to that design, and now I thought no more of it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a clothing company, and more people were in evidence-- well-dressed men of forty and more, surrounded by brass railings.
-- He was worth more than forty thousand, all told--but she would get that.
-- The large bill of fare held an array of dishes sufficient to feed an army, sidelined with prices which made reasonable expenditure a ridiculous impossibility--an order of soup at fifty cents or a dollar, with a dozen kinds to choose from; oysters in forty styles and at sixty cents the half-dozen; entrees, fish, and meats at prices which would house one over night in an average hotel.
-- "Three hundred and forty dollars," he said.
-- The next day Hurstwood said: "We owe the grocer five dollars and forty cents this week."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnScene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago Chapter I OU don't know about me without you have read a book Yby the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
-- If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing-gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.
-- This place was a tolerable long, steep hill or ridge about forty foot high.
-- There was a woman about forty year old in there knitting by a candle that was on a pine table.
-- It said he run away from St. Jacques' planta- tion, forty mile below New Orleans, last winter, and likely went north, and whoever would catch him and send him back he could have the reward and expenses.
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