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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spot was at Chelsea, for there Miss Sophia Wackles resided with her widowed mother and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions; a circumstance which was made known to the neighbourhood by an oval board over the front first-floor windows, whereupon appeared in circumambient flourishes the words 'Ladies' Seminary'; and which was further published and proclaimed at intervals between the hours of half-past nine and ten in the morning, by a straggling and solitary young lady of tender years standing on the scraper on the tips of her toes and making futile attempts to reach the knocker with a spelling-book.
-- If the master did chance to rouse himself and seem alive to what was going on, the noise subsided for a moment and no eyes met his but wore a studious and a deeply humble look; but the instant he relapsed again, it broke out afresh, and ten times louder than before.
-- Ten pounds down.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reason was not that ten years before he had ruined and abandoned Katiousha, which incident he had entirely forgotten, but that at this very time he was sustaining relations with a married woman, and though he now considered them at an end, they were not so considered by her.
-- Now that he found himself the owner of vast estates, he was confronted by two alternatives: either to waive his ownership in favor of the peasants, as he did ten years ago with the two hundred acres, or, by tacit acquiescence, confess that all his former ideas were erroneous and false.
-- In the small jury-room there were about ten men of every description.
-- Behind the old lady, beaming in his wide-open vest, and with a self-sufficient smile on his face, came that same famous lawyer who so managed the case that the lady with the large flowers lost all her property, while his shrewd client, who paid him ten thousand rubles, received over a hundred thousand.
-- He was absorbed in the horrible thought that the same Maslova, whom he knew as an innocent and beautiful girl ten years ago, could be guilty of such a crime.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at ten o'clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career.
-- "There were others coming, and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me.
-- I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles perhaps, in ten minutes.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, we passed it ten minutes ago!Faster!'
-- The Lion and the UnicornThe next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not doubt that this was the black spot; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: "You have till ten tonight."
-- The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries.
-- The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it.
-- It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.
-- The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen being all that is left faithful of the ship's company with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well!suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
-- Conseil had followed me for the last ten years wherever science led.
-- This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles.
-- ; at 320 feet, ten times that pressure; at 3,200 feet, a hundred times that pressure; lastly, at 32,000 feet, a thousand times that pressure would be 97,500,000 lb. that is to say, that you would be flattened as if you had been drawn from the plates of a hydraulic machine!"
-- The manometer showed ten degrees.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again the man-servant who invariably disappeared between the hours of ten and twelve at night came in silently and inscrutably with tea, bending in a slow, strange, leopard-like fashion to put the tray softly on the table.
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