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：
-- 'Aye, shame on the Hollanders and Iroquois, who cir-cumvented them by their deviltries, into such a treaty!But I have known them for twenty years, and I call him liar that says cowardly blood runs in the veins of a Delaware.
-- Twenty times the gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said: 'I came to ask you to lend me twenty francs.'"
-- I've got to give her twenty francs."
-- I'd given the concierge twenty francs, and told her to send for me if anything happened."
-- That was twenty years before, and now what had been a barren island was a garden.
-- Sometimes the disease continues for twenty years.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Neb heard that his master had been made prisoner, he left Massachusetts without hesitating an instant, arrived before Richmond, and by dint of stratagem and shrewdness, after having risked his life twenty times over, managed to penetrate into the besieged town.
-- After walking for twenty minutes, the four castaways were suddenly brought to a standstill by the sight of foaming billows close to their feet.
-- Towards five o'clock in the morning of the 25th of March, the sky began to lighten; the horizon still remained dark, but with daybreak a thick mist rose from the sea, so that the eye could scarcely penetrate beyond twenty feet or so from where they stood.
-- The watercourse at that part measured one hundred feet in breadth, and its two banks on each side were scarcely twenty feet high.
-- A raft was thus formed, on which they stacked all they had collected, sufficient, indeed, to have loaded at least twenty men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs George remarked that people would talk, that people had often said this to her before, that Mrs Simmons then and there present had told her so twenty times, that she had always said, 'No, Henrietta Simmons, unless I see it with my own eyes and hear it with my own ears, I never will believe it.'
-- 'Her father was a blessed creetur, Quilp, and worthy twenty thousand of some people,' said Mrs Jiniwin; 'twenty hundred million thousand.'
-- I was attending to my business, and couldn't have my eyes in twenty places at once, like a peacock, no more than you could.
-- If I can find these people through your means, it is but a prelude to twenty more.
-- 'All I know, my dear feller,' said Mr Chuckster, running his fingers through his hair, 'is, that he is the cause of my having stood here twenty minutes, for which I hate him with a mortal and undying hatred, and would pursue him to the confines of eternity if I could afford the time.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Entering his private chamber, and locking the door behind him, he produced from the lower shelf of a book-case two dumb-bells, made twenty motions upward, forward, sidewise and downward, and three times lowered himself, holding the bells above his head.
-- Rabelais relates the story of a jurist who was trying a case, and who, after citing innumerable laws and reading twenty pages of incomprehensible judicial Latin, made an offer to the litigants to throw dice; if an even number fell then the plaintiff was right; if an odd number the defendant was right.
-- While in the waiting-room she gave one of the guards twenty kopecks, asking him to buy for her two lunch rolls and some cigarettes.
-- The cell in which Maslova was confined was an oblong room, twenty feet by fifteen.
-- In the second room, in groups and pairs, about twenty men and women were sitting along the walls, talking in low voices.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Lion and the UnicornThe next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest.
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