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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A man doesn't throw up his business and leave his wife and children at the age of forty to become a painter unless there's a woman in it.
-- She was a woman of twenty-eight, I should think, though of a type whose age is always doubtful; for she cannot have looked different when she was twenty, and at forty would look no older.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence!It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those whose gaze, from their commanding position, extended over a radius of forty miles.
-- He was rather more than forty years of age.
-- This was a sailor named Pencroft, a man of about thirty- five or forty years of age, strongly built, very sunburnt, and possessed of a pair of bright sparkling eyes and a remarkably good physiognomy.
-- This occupied them nearly forty minutes, and it was ten o'clock when they returned to Cyrus Harding whom Spilett had not left.
-- The interior of the crater, whose inclination did not exceed thirty five to forty degrees, presented no difficulties nor obstacles to the ascent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maslova declared that she did go to the Hotel Mauritania, as stated, for the purpose of fetching some money for the merchant, and that opening the trunk with the key given to her by the merchant, she took only forty rubles, as she was directed, but took no more, which fact can be substantiated by Bochkova and Kartinkin, in whose presence she took the money and locked the trunk.
-- "I say I didn't take anything but forty rubles."
-- From external appearances he seemed to be about forty years of age.
-- "Some people get so accustomed to opium," he began, "that they can take forty drops at a time.
-- Two other women were sitting idly on their cots; one of about forty years, who seemed to have been pretty in her youth, but was now pale and slim, was feeding a child with her long, white breast.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only forty times had that silent revolution occurred during all the years that I had traversed.
-- Upon the hillside were some thirty or forty Morlocks, dazzled by the light and heat, and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
-- Forty paces farther we came to the edge of the wood and saw the stockade in front of us.
-- Haulbowline Head and Mizzen-mast Hill were at my elbow, the hill bare and dark, the head bound with cliffs forty or fifty feet high and fringed with great masses of fallen rock.
-- Every here and there, one of a different species rose forty or fifty feet clear above its neighbours, and which of these was the particular "tall tree" of Captain Flint could only be decided on the spot, and by the readings of the compass.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May I be excused for saying that I was forty years old?
-- Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and taciturn, occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted.
-- This mass of fluid is equal to about the quantity of water which would be discharged by all the rivers of the earth in forty thousand years.
-- two volcanic islands emerged of unequal size, surrounded by a coral reef that measured forty miles in circumference.
-- The Nautilus, having passed the outer belt of rocks by a narrow strait, found itself among breakers where the sea was from thirty to forty fathoms deep.
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