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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, what is ten years?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I I have to kill for two, these days.'
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- 'Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!'
-- He has troubled the jungle for ten sea-sons.
-- 'A bull paid ten years ago!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Delawares lent themselves to the work, and we made it good, ten to twenty, until our numbers were nearly equal, and then we sallied out upon the hounds, and not a man of them ever got back to tell the fate of his party.
-- On a strip of land, which ap-peared from his stand too narrow to contain such an army, but which, in truth, extended many hundreds of yards from the shores of the Horican to the base of the mountain, were to be seen the white tents and military engines of an en-campment of ten thousand men.
-- The truce still ex-isted, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his instructions were ended.
-- It might have been ten minutes (it seemed an age) that the sisters had stood riveted to one spot, horror-strick-en and nearly helpless.
-- Ten minutes, which ap-peared so many ages to Duncan, might have passed in this manner; and the warriors were fairly enveloped in a cloud of white smoke before any of them spoke.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was led up to Mrs. Strickland, and for ten minutes we talked together.
-- There were ten people.
-- I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week.
-- It wasn't more than ten lines."
-- "But I've not spoken ten words to your husband.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For ten years Gideon Spilett had been the reporter of the New York Herald, which he enriched by his letters and drawings, for he was as skilful in the use of the pencil as of the pen.
-- "This evening, at ten o'clock," replied Captain Harding; "and Heaven grant that the storm does not abate before our departure.
-- About ten o'clock, Gideon Spilett and his companions stripped themselves of their clothes, which they placed in bundles on their heads, and then ventured into the water, which was not more than five feet deep.
-- This occupied them nearly forty minutes, and it was ten o'clock when they returned to Cyrus Harding whom Spilett had not left.
-- They set out accordingly about ten o'clock in the morning, Herbert confident, Neb joyous, Pencroft murmuring aside, "If, on my return, I find a fire at the house, I shall believe that the thunder itself came to light it."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After folding and laying it down beside him, he bit the nails of all of his ten fingers with extreme voracity; and taking it up sharply, read it again.
-- To these impulses must be added the complete ascendancy which his friend had long been accustomed to exercise over him an ascendancy exerted in the beginning sorely at the expense of his friend's vices, and was in nine cases out of ten looked upon as his designing tempter when he was indeed nothing but his thoughtless, light-headed tool.
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