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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This boy was thirty years old, and his age to that of his master as fifteen to twenty.
-- One magnificent evening, the 30th July (that is to say, three weeks after our departure), the frigate was abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia.
-- But just as he was going to strike, the cetacean stole away with a rapidity that could not be estimated at less than thirty miles an hour, and even during our maximum of speed, it bullied the frigate, going round and round it.
-- But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
-- It was a vast, four-sided room, thirty feet long, eighteen wide, and fifteen high.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps he was thirty years old, perhaps more.
-- And he answered her, in the habit of more than thirty years: "Well, I don't think I'm any the worse, dear."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not.
-- By the powers, but I'll teach you better!Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before you, first and last, these thirty year back some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes.
-- As it was, he was already thirty yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when we reached the brow of the slope.
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