ten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 十pron. /a. 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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came.
-- After it had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ten minutes, good, past eleven.'
-- 'Ten o'clock, sir,' said the man at the tavern, whom he had charged to wake him 'ten o'clock, sir.'
-- Ten o'clock at night?'
-- 'I have lived with the darling or the darling has lived with me, and paid me for it; which she certainly should nev-er have done, you may take your affidavit, if I could have afforded to keep either myself or her for nothing since she was ten years old.
-- The fountain was a little removed; for the street opened, where it was, into a space some ten or twelve yards square.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will have ten kisses from the Princess,' said the swine-herd.
-- 'Ask him if he will have ten kisses from the ladies of my court.'
-- 'Ten kisses from the Princess, or I keep the kitchen-pot myself.'
-- And the court-ladies placed themselves in front of her, and spread out their dresses the swineherd got ten kisses, and the Princess the kitchen-pot.
-- Tell him he shall, as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me, and may take the rest from the ladies of the court.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was just attempting to do what she had attempted to do ten times already in these last three days--to sort out the children's things and her own, so as to take them to her mother's--and again she could not bring herself to do this; but now again, as each time before, she kept saying to herself, "that things cannot go on like this, that she must take some step" to punish him, put him to shame, avenge on him some little part at least of the suffering he had caused her.
-- But here's for the housekeeping," he said, taking ten roubles from his pocketbook.
-- He remembered absolutely nothing, but she had been laughing at the joke for ten years now, and was fond of it.
-- Towards ten o'clock, when she usually said good-night to her son, and often before going to a ball put him to bed herself, she felt depressed at being so far from him; and whatever she was talking about, she kept coming back in thought to her curly-headed Seryozha.
-- "I know," he thought, "that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet.
-- Passepartout had been a sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses.
-- The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
-- We start for Dover and Calais in ten minutes."
-- This noble lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years; and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Mohalis, the suitable time for young men callers to depart is ten o'clock, but from eight till a quarter after eleven Martin did battle with Mrs. Fox; talked to her in two languages, an audible gossip and a mute but furious protest, while Madeline--she was present; she sat about and looked pretty.
-- In ten days, without seeing her again, he was off with Clif to the North Woods, and in his sorrow of losing her, his longing for her soft flesh and for her willingness to listen to him, he was only a little excited that he should have led the class in bacteriology, and that Max Gottlieb should have appointed him undergraduate assistant for the coming year.
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