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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus this entire set of books form a united series upon which Verne worked intermittently during ten years.
-- The fish was still breathing; it measured ten feet in length, and weighed more than six hundred pounds.
-- The vast assembly dispersed under the influence of deep emotion, and at ten o'clock the passengers and crew returned on board the vessel.
-- The PEONS took care of the baggage mules, and the boy led the MADRINA, a young mare adorned with rattle and bells, which walked in front, followed by ten mules.
-- They are not particular about their food, and only drink once a day, and they can go with ease ten leagues in eight hours.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But preparing the twelfth time to go on board, I found the wind began to rise: however, at low water I went on board, and though I thought I had rummaged the cabin so effectually that nothing more could be found, yet I dis-covered a locker with drawers in it, in one of which I found two or three razors, and one pair of large scissors, with some ten or a dozen of good knives and forks: in another I found about thirty-six pounds value in money - some Eu-ropean coin, some Brazil, some pieces of eight, some gold, and some silver.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
-- He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
-- "He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten to one but he was light-headed at the time.
-- They will have ten thousand pounds divided amongst them.
-- If they marry, they will be sure of doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten thousand pounds."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the fourth day she was down town all day, having borrowed ten cents for lunch from Minnie.
-- It had a large bay window bulging out from the second floor, and was graced in front by a small grassy plot, twenty- five feet wide and ten feet deep.
-- The ten rooms of the house were occupied by himself, his wife Julia, and his son and daughter, George, Jr., and Jessica.
-- On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia--a junket that was to last ten days.
-- Drouet had been away since ten in the morning.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun.
-- Thinks I, the old man will be glad when he sees this she's worth ten dollars.
-- I put ten dollars in a cow.
-- 'So you lost the ten dollars.'
-- I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He waited two minutes--nothing; five minutes--nothing; ten minutes--nothing.
-- He found that, during the night, his ears had grown at least ten full inches!
-- That night, Pinocchio, instead of going to bed at ten o'clock waited until midnight, and instead of making eight baskets, he made sixteen.
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