twenty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 二十pron. /a. 二十(个， 只…)，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in an-other, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: be-ing now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
-- There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly for-getting the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I speak, miss, of twenty years ago.
-- If you could kindly mention now, for instance, what nine times ninepence are, or how many shillings in twenty guin-eas, it would be so encouraging.
-- Mr. Stryver, a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into compa-nies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life.
-- But the frightened valet had got down in a hurry, and there were twenty hands at the horses' bridles.
-- ' or twenty years hence ' 'You do me too much honour,' said the Marquis; 'still, I prefer that supposition.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattress- es.
-- Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
-- The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish* miles; borne by electricity, the soul wants even some minutes less to accomplish the same flight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, well, then I can do it in twenty minutes.
-- Her connection with this circle was kept up through Princess Betsy Tverskaya, her cousin's wife, who had an income of a hundred and twenty thousand roubles, and who had taken a great fancy to Anna ever since she first came out, showed her much attention, and drew her into her set, making fun of Countess Kidia Ivanovna's coterie.
-- He wouldn't look at a bargain that gave him ten, fifteen per cent profit, but holds back to buy a rouble's worth for twenty kopecks."
-- Twenty years before, when Dolly was a child, the lodge had been roomy and comfortable, though, like all lodges, it stood sideways to the entrance avenue, and faced the south.
-- he thought; "how unnatural and false it is!And the children feel it so: Learning French and unlearning sincerity," he thought to himself, unaware that Darya Alexandrovna had thought all that over twenty times already, and yet, even at the cost of some loss of sincerity, believed it necessary to teach her children French in that way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.
-- It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.
-- Dinner passed as breakfast had done, and Mr. Fogg re-appeared in the reading-room and sat down to the Pall Mall at twenty minutes before six.
-- "All right," said Mr. Fogg; and, turning to the others, he continued: "I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring's which I will willingly risk upon it."
-- "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, of course, some day I guess they'll have a car every twenty minutes," he said weightily.
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