thirty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 三十， 三十个(人或物)，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Six years hence!Dear Miss Woodhouse, he would be thirty years old!'
-- He paused and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, 'If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of an hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or incon-venience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself.'
-- He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss Somebody else with twenty, or with ten.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made no reply, and, reaching a distance of twenty or thirty yards, turned about, and ran indoors.
-- The pit was a saucer-shaped concave, naturally formed, with a top diameter of about thirty feet, and shallow enough to allow the sunshine to reach their heads.
-- The wheat when threshed would average about thirty quarters to each stack; the barley, at least forty.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- Vauquer took boarders who came for their meals; but these _externes_ usually only came to dinner, for which they paid thirty francs a month.
-- And you pay thirty millions for the police and the courts of justice, for the maintenance of law and order!A pretty slate of things it is!"
-- de Restaud's courtyard, in the Chaussee d'Antin, he had seen the neat turnout of a young man of six-and-twenty; in the Faubourg Saint-Germain he found the luxurious equipage of a man of rank; thirty thousand francs would not have purchased it.
-- He had a hundred and thirty francs every quarter.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was herimmobile bronze face.
-- And yet, it was only thirty days since the siege began.
-- Thirty days of siege!The city ringedwith red-clay rifle pits, the monotonous booming of cannon that never rested, the long lines of ambulances and oxcarts dripping blood down the dusty streets toward the hospitals, the overworked burial squads dragging out men whenthey were hardly cold and dumping them like so many logs in endless rows of shallow ditches.
-- Only thirty days!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The flag had been struck, and the gun had been fired, at the right moment of time, and I felt as snugly cut off from the rest of Walworth as if the moat were thirty feet wide by as many deep.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground.
-- The enemy was so frightened when they saw me, that they leaped out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could not be fewer than thirty thou-sand souls.
-- Of their smaller fowl I could take up twenty or thirty at the end of my knife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass.
-- It was not a face in its first bloom; she was a woman five and thirty years of age.
-- And I'll give you to know, sir for this my dear boy won't that though his mother kept but a little village shop, he never forgot her, but pensioned me on thirty pound a year more than I want, for I put by out of it only making the condition that I was to keep down in my own part, and make no boasts about him, and not trouble him.
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