Threes

例句:

• The apes scattered by ones, and twos, and threes in all directions, but ever within sound of a signal of alarm. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I had not been long on the road, before I noticed that other people--by twos and threes--appeared to be travelling in the same direction as myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The police closed again round the doorway, and men stole out from among the crowd by twos and threes and stood behind them to be the first to see. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The three passed and then came nine more, flying much higher in the minute, pointed formations of threes, threes and threes. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• After lunch, people strolled about, by twos and threes, through the house and garden, enjoying the sunshine without and within. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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