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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps, when, like poor Johnson, I'm old and can't enjoy it, solitary, and can't share it, independent, and don't need it.
-- At thirty they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact, and if sensible, console themselves by remembering that they have twenty more useful, happy years, in which they may be learning to grow old gracefully.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is which was the only way he could get there thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.
-- There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
-- Thirdly: Some eighteen or twenty years ago Commodore J , then commanding an American sloop-of-war of the first class, happened to be dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship in the harbor of Oahu, Sandwich Islands.
-- Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered something down the crack, closed it, and turned the key upon them ten in number leaving on deck some twenty or more, who thus far had remained neutral.
-- At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,' or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.
-- 'And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was afterwards increased to twenty pound.
-- Oliver walked twenty miles that day; and all that time tasted nothing but the crust of dry bread, and a few draughts of water, which he begged at the cottage-doors by the road-side.
-- A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room.
-- He appeared well used to it, however; for he coiled himself up in a corner very quietly, without uttering a sound, and winking his very ill-looking eyes twenty times in a minute, appeared to occupy himself in taking a survey of the apartment.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.'
-- They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first pri-vate seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
-- They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The generous treatment the captain gave me I can nev-er enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax - for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Bra-zils.
-- Our ship was about one hundred and twenty tons bur-den, carried six guns and fourteen men, besides the master, his boy, and myself.
-- The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body, and I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore - a very great way; but I held my breath, and as-sisted myself to swim still forward with all my might.
-- Before I set up my tent I drew a half-circle before the hollow place, which took in about ten yards in its semi-di-ameter from the rock, and twenty yards in its diameter from its beginning and ending.
-- Besides this barley, there were, as above, twenty or thirty stalks of rice, which I preserved with the same care and for the same use, or to the same purpose - to make me bread, or rather food; for I found ways to cook it without baking, though I did that also after some time.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may live twenty years longer.
-- "It would be impossible, I know," replied Elinor, "to convince you that a woman of seven and twenty could feel for a man of thirty-five anything near enough to love, to make him a desirable companion to her.
-- Margaret agreed, and they pursued their way against the wind, resisting it with laughing delight for about twenty minutes longer, when suddenly the clouds united over their heads, and a driving rain set full in their face. Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house.
-- Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five and twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before.
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