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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To Jacques Eliacin Francois Marie Paganel, Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies; who, after having spent twenty years of his life in geographical work in the study, wishes to see active service, and is on his way to India to gain for the science what information he can by following up the footsteps of great travelers."
-- The captain of the muleteers was an Englishman, who had become naturalized through twenty years' residence in the country.
-- To find the extremity of the 37th degree of latitude, they would have required to proceed as far as the Bay of Carnero, twenty miles further.
-- In exchange for seven ready saddled horses of the Argentine breed, 100 pounds of CHARQUI, or dried meat, several measures of rice, and leather bottles for water, the Indians agreed to take twenty ounces of gold as they could not get wine or rum, which they would have preferred, though they were perfectly acquainted with the value of gold.
-- Paganel, triumphing in his pupil, immediately translated his replies to his companions, and exclaimed:"What an intelligent race!All my explanations would have been lost on nineteen in every twenty of the peasants in my own country."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The marks were some twenty yards from the body and no one gave them a thought.
-- You will then learn in possibly twenty cases out of the twenty-three that the waste of the day be-fore has been burned or removed.
-- I had no idea that you had found my occasional retreat, still less that you were inside it, until I was within twenty paces of the door.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, but the prince can, because he is clever cleverer than you are by ten or twenty times, if you like.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some more of the Careys came to dinner, and they had the pleasure of sitting down nearly twenty to table, which Sir John observed with great contentment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At about twenty minutes of five."
-- She would need to save part of the twenty to pay her fare home.
-- Even after all her depressing conclusions, she could sweep away all thought about the matter and then the twenty dollars seemed a wonderful and delightful thing.
-- As she dressed with a flutter, in her little stage room, hearing the voices outside, seeing Mr. Quincel hurrying here and there, noting Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Hoagland at their nervous work of preparation, seeing all the twenty members of the cast moving about and worrying over what the result would be, she could not help thinking what a delight this would be if it would endure; how perfect a state, if she could only do well now, and then some time get a place as a real actress.
-- "In twenty minutes," said the man.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In St. Petersburg they used to say there was twenty or thirty thousand people in St. Louis, but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o'clock that still night.
-- I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I couldn't budge for most a half a minute it seemed to me and then there warn't no raft in sight; you couldn't see twenty yards.
-- You float along down about twenty miles, and you'll come to a town on the left-hand side of the river.
-- Now we're trying to do you a kindness; so you just put twenty miles between us, that's a good boy.
-- 'Hold on, Parker,' says the other man, 'here's a twenty to put on the board for me.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Geppetto ran after him but was unable to catch him, for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds, his two wooden feet, as they beat on the stones of the street, making as much noise as twenty peasants in wooden shoes.
-- Return here within twenty minutes and you will find the vine grown and the branches filled with gold pieces."
-- If the Marionette had been told to wait a day instead of twenty minutes, the time could not have seemed longer to him.
-- In less than a half hour, at least twenty people passed and Pinocchio begged of each one, but they all answered: "Aren't you ashamed?
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