sixth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第六； 六分之一，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：
-- The sixth carriage, miraculously preserved by the breaking of the coupling chain, remained on the rails, six feet from the abyss.
-- However, for that day at least, the yacht did not appear, and the sixth night from their departure from Twofold Bay came, without the fears of John Mangles being realized.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
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：
-- On the sixth floor."
-- At length I reached the sixth floor, and knocked at the door numbered thirty-two.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why should not Australia, New Ireland, Australasia, united to the archipelagoes of the Pacific, have once formed a sixth part of the world, as important as Europe or Asia, as Africa or the two Americas?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sixth child, begotten of a passing gypsy, was a girl, who would have shared the same fate, but it happened that one of the two old maidens entered the cow-shed to reprimand the milkmaids for carelessness in skimming the cream, and there saw the mother with the healthy and beautiful child.
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：
-- Well, that square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee the Fifth is mostly water the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty But you make no remark?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sixth had only risen upon his elbow; he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast sheet of water.
-- On that day, the sixth of our imprisonment, Captain Nemo, finding the pickaxes work too slowly, resolved to crush the ice-bed that still separated us from the liquid sheet.
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