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：
-- The travelers made good progress, however, and about four o'clock the Cordilleras lay full forty miles behind them, the dark outlines being already almost lost in the evening mists.
-- However, the clouds remained unbroken for the present, and in the evening, after a brisk gallop of forty miles, the horses stopped on the brink of deep CANADAS, immense natural trenches filled with water.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Seven hundred and forty thousand pounds.'
-- I'd put him at forty years of age, and he was of a middle height, two or three inches shorter than you, sir.
-- He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a straw hat.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sec-ond individual wore a dress coat, and was some forty years of age; he was the general's special study servant, and well aware of his own importance.
-- 'Forty thousand, then forty thousand roubles instead of eighteen!Ptitsin and another have promised to find me forty thousand roubles by seven o'clock tonight.
-- Forty thou-sand roubles paid down on the nail!'
-- It was a woman of some forty years, dressed in sombre colours, probably a housekeeper or a governess.
-- Marfa Borisovna was about forty years of age.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were they that held Cyparissus, rocky Pytho, holy Crisa, Daulis, and Panopeus; they also that dwelt in Anemorea and Hyampo-lis, and about the waters of the river Cephissus, and Lilaea by the springs of the Cephissus; with their chieftains came forty ships, and they marshalled the forces of the Phoceans, which were stationed next to the Boeotians, on their left.
-- With him there came forty ships of the Locrians who dwell beyond Euboea.
-- With him there came forty ships.
-- And with Thoas there came forty ships.
-- With him there came forty ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
-- But as there were forty or fifty thou-sand other seals hunting for the same thing each spring, the whistling, bellowing, roaring, and blowing on the beach was something frightful.
-- The herd never went more than forty or fifty miles a day, and stopped to feed at night, and kept close to the shore all the time; while Kotick swam round them, and over them, and under them, but he could not hurry them up one-half mile.
-- Then Teddy's mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged him-self to Teddy's bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied.
-- When, after weeks and weeks of cautious driving of scattered ele-phants across the hills, the forty or fifty wild monsters were driven into the last stockade, and the big drop gate, made of tree trunks lashed together, jarred down behind them, Kala Nag, at the word of command, would go into that flar-ing, trumpeting pandemonium (generally at night, when the flicker of the torches made it difficult to judge distanc-es), and, picking out the biggest and wildest tusker of the mob, would hammer him and hustle him into quiet while the men on the backs of the other elephants roped and tied the smaller ones.
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：
-- * Glenn's Falls are on the Hudson, some forty or fifty miles above the head of tide, or that place where the river becomes navigable for sloops.
-- I never read but in one, and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need much schooling; though I may boast that of forty long and hard-working years.'
-- Forty days and forty nights did the imps crave our blood around this pile of logs, which I designed and partly reared, being, as you'll remember, no Indian myself, but a man without a cross.
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