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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty long poles, resembling the pallisa-dos before your majesty's court: wherewith we conjecture the man- mountain combs his head; for we did not always trouble him with questions, because we found it a great dif-ficulty to make him understand us.
-- It is enclosed by a wall of two feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings.
-- Upon these, and the like reason-ings, their opinion is, that parents are the last of all others to be trusted with the education of their own children; and therefore they have in every town public nurseries, where all parents, except cottagers and labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared and educat-ed, when they come to the age of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to have some rudiments of docil-ity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!'
-- 'Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals!Some boy's definition of a horse.
-- Girl number twenty stopped then, palpitating, and made him a curtsey.
-- said Mr. Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off.
-- Not a servile one these Hands will never do that!Lord bless you, sir, you'll never catch them at that, if they have been with you twenty years! and, as a complimentary toilet for Mrs. Sparsit, tucked his neckerchief ends into his waistcoat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In twenty minutes from the moment of our departure we were in Holstein, and our carriage entered the station.
-- It was four o'clock in the evening and we had traveled four Danish miles, about equal to twenty English.
-- Twenty minutes later we suddenly came upon a vast excavation.
-- Twenty times, a hundred times, I have resisted the fearful desire to drink it.
-- Here is a journey worth twenty to Spa."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the girls came home for the summer holidays of 1913, when Hilda was twenty and Connie eighteen, their father could see plainly that they had had the love experi-ence.
-- My mother left me twenty thousand pounds in trust, and I know Clifford can't touch it.
-- He did look indeed very clean-shaven and very clean al-together, one of the clean young men of twenty years ago.
-- 'Some twenty days: we are both married ladies,' said Hil-da, in her curious hushed voice, that made her Italian sound so foreign.
-- Af-ter which he asked: 'Do the signore want a gondolier for the twenty days or so that they will stay at the Villa Esmeralda?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As an Englishman who has been more than twenty years in China, no.'
-- You will not be offended by my recalling this, after twenty years?'
-- As thus:'Mrs Bangham,' said the doctor, before he had been there twenty minutes, 'go outside and fetch a little brandy, or we shall have you giving in.'
-- So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title.
-- Then said Captain Maroon, 'Now, how much time do you want to make the other twenty in?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father and Mother sat together, quietly reliving the first chapter of the romance which for them began some twenty years ago.
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