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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," she said aloud, "about forty kilometres from Innsbruck, isn't it?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
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