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：
-- 'What it is, or what it is not, none here can tell, though two of us have ranged the woods for more than thirty years.
-- 'Lady,' returned the scout, solemnly, 'I have listened to all the sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears.
-- There are said to be some hundreds of islands in a sheet of water less than thirty miles long.
-- This expectation was is no degree diminished, when, by the doubtful twilight, he beheld twenty or thirty forms rising alternately from the cover of the tall, coarse grass, in front of the lodges, and then sinking again from the sight, as it were to burrow in the earth.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote pe-riod of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, 'tarried,' in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think he showed me about thirty canvases.
-- We went up to the attic, and there, among I know not what rubbish that had been gathered during the thirty years we have inhabited that house, was the picture.
-- Imagine my surprise when he said it was a masterpiece, and offered me thirty thousand francs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this land was still thirty miles off.
-- The interior of the crater, whose inclination did not exceed thirty five to forty degrees, presented no difficulties nor obstacles to the ascent.
-- This tail formed a regular peninsula, which stretched more than thirty miles into the sea, reckoning from the cape southeast of the island, already mentioned; it curled round, making an open roadstead, which marked out the lower shore of this strangely-formed land.
-- At the narrowest part, that is to say between the Chimneys and the creek on the western shore, which corresponded to it in latitude, the island only measured ten miles; but its greatest length, from the jaws at the northeast to the extremity of the tail of the southwest, was not less than thirty miles.
-- It is true, a distance of nearly thirty miles separated the observers from the extreme points, that is, of the tail which extended to the southwest, and it would have been difficult, even to Pencroft's eyes, to discover a habitation there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 39All that day, though he waited for Mr Abel until evening, Kit kept clear of his mother's house, determined not to anticipate the pleasures of the morrow, but to let them come in their full rush of delight; for to-morrow was the great and long looked-for epoch in his life to-morrow was the end of his first quarter the day of receiving, for the first time, one fourth part of his annual income of Six Pounds in one vast sum of Thirty Shillings to-morrow was to be a half-holiday devoted to a whirl of entertainments, and little Jacob was to know what oysters meant, and to see a play.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This prison chapel had been rebuilt and remodeled by a rich merchant, who had spent about thirty thousand rubles on it, and it was all ornamented with gilt and bright colors.
-- It was reported to the Governor that something like a mutiny occurred, and in answer came a document ordering that the two chief culprits, Vasilieff and the tramp Don'tremember (an application given to some tramps and jail birds who, to conceal the identity, with characteristic ingenuity and stupidity make that answer to all questions relating to their names), be given thirty lashes each.
-- Nekhludoff also told him of the hundred and thirty men kept in prison through some misunderstanding, and asked him whose fault he thought it was.
-- First, to obtain Maslova's transfer to the hospital, and to help, if possible, the hundred and thirty unfortunates.
-- "There are a hundred and thirty men languishing in prison for the only reason that their passports were not renewed in time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me.
-- Upon the hillside were some thirty or forty Morlocks, dazzled by the light and heat, and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment.
-- At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have my watch here in my hand; I give you thirty seconds to join me in."
-- We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
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