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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir Charles had evidently stood there for five or ten minutes.'
-- At ten o'clock to-morrow, Dr. Mor-timer, I will be much obliged to you if you will call upon me here, and it will be of help to me in my plans for the future if you will bring Sir Henry Baskerville with you.'
-- Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?'
-- Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr. Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young baronet.
-- There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sell them,' said he, 'and then take seven thousand five hundred roubles to the office, give them to the cashier, and bring me back the rest of the ten thousand, without looking in anywhere on the way; look sharp, I shall be waiting for you.'
-- 'And his father,' he added, for the prince's instruction, 'and his father would have given a man a ticket to the other world for ten roubles any day not to speak of ten thousand!'
-- 'There,' she says, 'take your ear-rings, you wretched old miser; although they are ten times dearer than their value to me now that I know what it must have cost Parfen to get them!Give Parfen my compliments,' she says, 'and thank him very much!'
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
-- The young ladies used to have a cup of coffee each before this meal, at ten o'clock, while still in bed.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I had among them ten more such councillors, for the city of King Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it.
-- As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.
-- These had four leaders, and each of them had ten ships, with many Epeans on board.
-- You are glad enough then to take your fill of roast meats and to drink wine as long as you please, whereas now you would not care though you saw ten columns of Achae-ans engage the enemy in front of you.'
-- Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men in the thick of a fight, and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry he raised.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could hear the murmur of voices for the next ten minutes, then a cry of surprise, a stirring of feet, a chair flung aside, a bark of laughter, quick steps to the door, and Cuss appeared, his face white, his eyes staring over his shoulder.
-- They heard the chink of money, and realised that the robber had found the housekeeping reserve of gold two pounds ten in half sovereigns altogether.
-- Didn't take ten seconds.
-- I've got my boots in this country ten years or more.
-- He had hardly gone ten strides before his shin was caught in some mysterious fashion, and he was no longer running, but flying with inconceivable rapidity through the air.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao.
-- Lord!It's ten years ago.
-- Simply because eleven years ago I lost my head for ten minutes on a foggy night.'
-- 'The Moreau ' Ah!It sent my memory back ten years.
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