<s>Human: 给定一段英文文本和一个目标单词，输出该文本中目标单词出现的次数。
文本：“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The dog slept over the verandah. The fox ran away.”
目标单词：“fox”
</s><s>Assistant: 可以通过Python代码来实现。先将文本拆分成单词列表，然后遍历列表，统计目标单词出现的次数。具体代码实现如下：

```python
text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The dog slept over the verandah. The fox ran away."
target_word = "fox"

# 将文本转换为单词列表
words = text.split()

# 定义计数器初始值为0
count = 0

# 遍历单词列表，统计目标单词出现的次数
for word in words:
    if word == target_word:
        count += 1

# 输出结果
print(f"The target word '{target_word}' appears {count} times in the text.")
```

运行结果为：The target word 'fox' appears 2 times in the text.
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