To place my third jackstraw, which follows twenty years after the second, uninterruptedly in this group, I pass over for the moment our War of 1812. To that I will return after I have dealt with the third jackstraw, namely, the Monroe Doctrine. It was England that suggested the Monroe Doctrine to us. From the origin of this in the mind of Canning to its public announcement upon our side of the water, the pattern to which I have alluded is for the third time very clearly to be seen.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
After some conversation on the subject it was agreed by all the interested parties to form a new company, embracing all the mines. Of the shares of this new concern, one-third went to Maurice Vane, one-third to the Badgers, and one-third to William Bodley and Joe. The necessary machinery was duly installed, and to-day the new company is making money fast.英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
The third hour unequal: In the third planetary hour; Palamon had gone forth in the hour of Venus, two hours before daybreak; the hour of Mercury intervened; the third hour was that of Luna, or Diana. "Unequal" refers to the astrological division of day and night, whatever their duration, into twelve parts, which of necessity varied in length with the season.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
The Third of May seems either to have possessed peculiar favour or significance with Chaucer personally, or to have had a special importance in connection with those May observances of which the poet so often speaks. It is on the third night of May that Palamon, in The Knight's Tale, breaks out of prison, and at early morn encounters in the forest Arcita, who has gone forth to pluck a garland in honour of May; it is on the third night of May that the poet hears the debate of "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"; and again in the present passage the favoured date recurs.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
and E. and then B. died, whereas B. should have had a double Portion, viz. two Thirds in Case he had survived his Father; but now this double Portion shall be equally divided between D. and E. and D. shall not have two Thirds of the two Thirds that descended from A.英文原著 · 《The History of the Common Law of England》
They are on the third floor. Shall I take you up?"
Hermione hesitated. Should she go up alone? "Please show me the way," she said, deciding. Fabiano preceded her up a dirty stone staircase, dark and full of noises, till they came to the third floor. "It is here, Signora!"
He knocked loudly on a door. It was opened very quickly, as if by some one who was on the watch, expectant of an arrival. "Chi e?" cried a female voice.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
After I got concessions from the union, I laid off a third of the workforce, outsourced another third.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
She has a life interest in one third of Matthew's share of Downton, and a third of his other possessions,美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》