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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.
-- 'About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several).
-- Around him are crowds shouting, yelling ten thousand faces, twenty thousand eyes.
-- 'Why, it's twenty years since my father died.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen.
-- From these there came fifty ships, and in each there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians.
-- Guneus brought two and twenty ships from Cyphus, and he was followed by the Enienes and the valiant Peraebi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona, and held the lands round the lovely river Titaresius, which sends its waters into the Pene-us.
-- Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents.
-- I will give him twenty iron cauldrons and twelve strong horses that have won races and carried off prizes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It came to rest poised twenty inches above the front edge of the seat of the chair.
-- To move to fresh apartments would have meant delay; altogether I had barely twenty pounds left in the world, for the most part in a bank and I could not afford that.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He clapped his hands, and forthwith they went off with that hopping run of theirs, fifteen or twenty of them I should think, up the beach.
-- I pushed through a tan-gle of tall white-flowered bushes, and saw him twenty paces beyond, looking over his shoulder at me and hesitating.
-- 'So for twenty years altogether counting nine years in England I have been going on; and there is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort.
-- yelped the voice of the Ape-man, some twenty yards to the right.
-- We came upon the gnawed and mutilated body of the puma, its shoulder-bone smashed by a bullet, and perhaps twenty yards farther found at last what we sought.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
-- 'Speak then,' cried twenty voices.
-- Two of the stron-gest monkeys caught Mowgli under the arms and swung off with him through the treetops, twenty feet at a bound.
-- Twenty or thirty monkeys bounded away to bring him nuts and wild pawpaws.
-- Sore, sleepy, and hun-gry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We said the country should be ours from the place where the water runs up no longer on this stream, to a river twenty sun's journey toward the summer.
-- His awakened imagination, de-luded by the deceptive light, converted each waving bush, or the fragment of some fallen tree, into human forms, and twenty times he fancied he could distinguish the horrid vis-ages of his lurking foes, peering from their hiding places, in never ceasing watchfulness of the movements of his par-ty.
-- Twenty times they thought the whirl-ing eddies were sweeping them to destruction, when the masterhand of their pilot would bring the bows of the ca-noe to stem the rapid.
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