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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did this, twenty, thirty times.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It contains thirty thousand square miles of surface, and has about seventy thousand inhabitants.
-- CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" Stapi is a town consisting of thirty huts, built on a large plain of lava, exposed to the rays of the sun, reflected from the volcano.
-- The wall of the fjord, like nearly the whole of the peninsula, consisted of a series of vertical columns, in height about thirty feet.
-- On Friday evening, the tenth of July, according to our estimation, we ought to have been thirty leagues to the southeast of Reykjavik, and about two leagues and a half deep.
-- Our constant and successive descents had taken us quite thirty leagues into the interior of the earth, that is to say that there were above us thirty leagues, nearly a hundred miles, of rocks, and oceans, and continents, and towns, to say nothing of living inhabitants.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clifford was inviting the young man of thirty at an in-auspicious moment in thyoung man's career.
-- But they said she'd no doubt squander it, perhaps in drink!So she had to draw it thirty shillings a week.
-- And you know they were such Chapel people, my word!She taught Sunday school for thirty years, till her father died.
-- 'The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
-- It was about thirty shillings a day, or ten pounds a week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were about thirty in company, and all talking; but necessarily in groups.
-- 'I will draw a veil over that dreamy life, Mr F. was in good spirits his appetite was good he liked the cookery he considered the wine weak but palatable and all was well, we returned to the immediate neighbourhood of Number Thirty Little Gosling Street London Docks and settled down, ere we had yet fully detected the housemaid in selling the feathers out of the spare bed Gout flying upwards soared with Mr F. to another sphere.'
-- 'If you want to see the man who would flay you alive here he is!Don't look for him in me, at thirty shillings a week, but look for him in Casby, at I don't know how much a year!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let it wait and ripen,' was her father's advice, and he practiced what he preached, having waited patiently thirty years for fruit of his own to ripen, and being in no haste to gather it even now when it was sweet and mellow.
-- CHAPTER THIRTY Mrs. Chester's fair was so very elegant and select that it was considered a great honor by the young ladies of the neighborhood to be invited to take a table, and everyone was much interest in the matter.
-- 'Oh, yes, well, we give from twenty-five to thirty for things of this sort.
-- It seldom is, at first, and thirty seems the end of all things to five-and-twenty.
-- At thirty they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact, and if sensible, console themselves by remembering that they have twenty more useful, happy years, in which they may be learning to grow old gracefully.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.
-- He made me a present of his embalmed head; took out his enormous tobacco wallet, and groping under the tobacco, drew out some thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them towards me, and said it was mine.
-- He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
-- Ye have been studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my certain knowledge.
-- As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
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