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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
-- There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme.
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
-- Eugene was a sportsman and a good shot, but he had not yet hit the bulls's eye twenty times out of twenty-two.
-- For twenty years he had given his whole heart to them; then, one day, he gave them all his fortune too.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
-- The stranger learned about twenty words at the first lesson; most of them, indeed, were those which I had before understood, but I profited by the others.
-- 'She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquaint-ed with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
-- It appeared to be a handsome young man, about five and twenty years of age.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toby, who hadhandled Gerald's horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his ownbusiness.
-- So, Ellen, no longer Robillard, turned her back on Savannah, never to see it again, and with a middle-agedhusband, Mammy, and twenty "house niggers" journeyed toward Tara.
-- Poor India!It would be bad enough to have pale hair and eyelashes anda hitting chin that meant a stubborn disposition, without being twenty years old and an old maid in the bargain.
-- Their nearest neighbor was twenty milesaway by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
-- When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom ofshorter duration than a month, usually much longer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
-- Chapter IIMy sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up "by hand."
-- It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
-- Like the clock in Miss Havisham's room, and like Miss Havisham's watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
-- "What would present company say," proceeded Joe, "to twenty pound?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 89 Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she un-fastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
-- Inside the mill were twenty of the miller's men hewing a stone, and as they went 'Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,' the mill went 'Click clack, click clack, click clack.'
-- The bird came down, and all the twenty millers set to and lifted up the stone with a beam; then the bird put his head through the hole and took the stone round his neck like a 234 Grimms' Fairy Talescollar, and flew back with it to the tree and sang 'My mother killed her little son; My father grieved when I was gone; My sister loved me best of all; She laid her kerchief over me, And took my bones that they might lie Underneath the juniper-tree Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a tur-ret at least five feet high.
-- I took these 26 Gulliver's Travelsvehicles and soon emptied them all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former af-forded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor of ten vessels, which was contained in earthen vials, into one vehicle, drinking it off at a draught; and so I did with the rest.
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