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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was thirty years of age, and his countenance expressed both courage and goodness, if the features were somewhat coarse.
-- 6, and went to my berth immediately, for I had heard that the best way to prevent sea-sickness is to go to bed as soon as you start, and not to stir for the first few days; and, moreover, I had been traveling for thirty hours.
-- In thirty days we shall have gone over it, and gained the eastern side before the DUNCAN, however little she may be delayed by the westerly winds."
-- They marched rapidly along the winding shore of the bay of Talcahuano, in order to gain the extremity of the parallel, thirty miles south.
-- About thirty nomadic Indians were living there in rude cabins made of branches, pasturing immense herds of milch cows, sheep, oxen, and horses.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.
-- He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a straw hat.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This went on for thirty years without a break; there was barely time to change the table-cloth; directly one person left, anoth-er took his place.
-- He was vague-ly conscious that he had already paced this particular walk from that large, dark tree to the bench at the oth-er end about a hundred yards altogether at least thirty times backwards and forwards.
-- Do you know I have intended to poison myself at least thirty times ever since I was thirteen or so and to write to my parents before I did it?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these there came thirty ships.
-- And with them there came thirty ships.
-- And with them there came thirty ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You've been insensible for nearly thirty hours.'
-- Then sud-denly traversing a little glade, I saw with an unpleasant start two clumsy legs among the trees, walking with noise-less footsteps parallel with my course, and perhaps thirty yards away from me.
-- I was thirty yards out before the waves reached to my waist.
-- As soon as they had approached within a distance of perhaps thirty yards they halted, and bowing on knees and elbows began flinging the white dust upon their heads.
-- In an empty hut I feasted on some specked and half-decayed fruit; and then after I had propped some branches and sticks about the opening, and placed myself with my face towards it and my hand upon my revolver, the exhaustion of the last thirty hours claimed its own, and I fell into a light slumber, hop-ing that the flimsy barricade I had erected would cause sufficient noise in its removal to save me from surprise.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
-- Twenty or thirty monkeys bounded away to bring him nuts and wild pawpaws.
-- A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
-- Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap.
-- He's done that for thirty years.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years, surmounted the whole, furnishing dignity to a good-natured and somewhat vacant countenance, that ap-parently needed such artificial aid, to support the gravity of some high and extraordinary trust.
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