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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a young man makes up his mind that he will work all night, the chances are that seven times out of ten he will sleep till morning.
-- Such bosh!There," she cried, interrupting herself, "that's a quarter to ten striking at the Val-de- Grace, and not a soul stirring!"
-- Father Goriot started off somewhere with a parcel, and the student won't be back from his lecture till ten o'clock.
-- It's nearly ten o'clock, and you let me sleep like a dormouse!Such a thing has never happened before."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal him-self, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.
-- 'You may easily believe,' said he, 'how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of bookkeeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incred-ulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in *The Vicar of Wakefield*: 'I have ten thousand florins ayear without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.'
-- Ten thousand thanks to Henry for his kindness, his affection, and his many letters; we are sincerely grateful.
-- 'My cousin,' replied I, 'it is decided as you may have ex-pected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
-- The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our resi-dence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it'll be ten o'clockbefore Boyd gets a chance to tell her that it wouldn't have been honorable for any of us to stay in college after the waythe Chancellor talked to you and me.
-- He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors hadeyed him askance at first.
-- The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a "new man," despite his nearly ten years'residence, and a foreigner.
-- It is so late why, it is actually ten o'clock," as the clock with coughing and tinny thumps marked the hour.
-- CHAPTER V IT WAS TEN O'CLOCK in the morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For such reasons, I was very glad when ten o'clock came and we started for Miss Havisham's; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the manner in which I should acquit myself under that lady's roof.
-- I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
-- It was ten o'clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress Slave at once?
-- "What would present company say to ten pound?"
-- There was nothing against him, save the quarrel; and my sister had quarrelled with him, and with everybody else about her, ten thousand times.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our honest friend journeyed on his way too; and if he was merry before, he was now ten times more so.
-- She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: 'Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.'
-- But as soon as the first rays of the sun shone into the garden he saw all the ten sacks standing side by side, quite full, and not a single grain was missing.
-- Then the boy called to him for the third time, and as that was also to no purpose, he ran against him and pushed the ghost down the stairs, so that it fell down the ten steps and re-mained lying there in a corner.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue; and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his maj-esty in council that I must be conveyed.
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