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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twenty minutes after, they were clinging together in the quiet of her living room.
-- It is true that twenty minutes after that, she was sneering at Clif Clawson, at fishing, and at all school-teachers, but to his fury she yielded in tears.
-- He had to wait for twenty minutes in a reception-room like that of an undertaker.
-- He would, he said briefly, be making twenty thousand a year as a surgeon within five years.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for the two roubles I lent you before, you owe me now twenty copecks on the same reckoning in advance.
-- What a grief it was to me when I heard that you had given up the university some months ago, for want of means to keep yourself and that you had lost your lessons and your other work!How could I help you out of my hundred and twenty roubles a year pension?
-- Is she counting on what is left of her hundred and twenty roubles of pension when Afanasy Ivanovitch's debt is paid?
-- And all her shawls don't add more than twenty roubles a year to her hundred and twenty, I know that.
-- Dounia darling, as though I did not know you!You were nearly twenty when I saw you last: I understood you then.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if he had askedthe question twenty times, each time with twenty blows, I believemy baby heart would have burst before I would have told him so.
-- 'She's at school, sir,' said Mr. Peggotty, wiping the heat consequenton the porterage of Peggotty's box from his forehead; 'she'll behome,' looking at the Dutch clock, 'in from twenty minutes to halfan hour's time.
-- He solemnlyconjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and toobserve that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income,and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, hewould be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he wouldbe miserable.
-- TheCaptain would have read it twenty thousand times, if twentythousand people would have heard him, one by one.
-- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditurenineteen six, result happiness.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
-- It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church.
-- I have heard him speak with great animation of a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with, who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece.'
-- She wished him very well; but he gave her pain, and his welfare twenty miles off would administer most satis-faction.
-- One might guess twenty things without guessing exactly the right; but I am sure there must be a particular cause for her chusing to come to Highbury instead of going with the Campbells to Ireland.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- About twenty steps still remained between him and the gate, when he heard a dispute.
-- He carried a lantern in his hand, and closing the door behind him, came forward and busied himself about this nook of the field for nearly twenty minutes, the lantern light appearing and disappearing here and there, and brightening him or darkening him as he stood before or behind it.
-- It appeared that she had gone to a place called Weatherbury, more than twenty miles off, but in what capacity whether as a visitor, or permanently, he could not discover.
-- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.
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