seventy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 七十， 七十个，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were some here today asking seventy roubles for the summer."
-- "And it won't run to more than twenty-five yards of fagots per acre, and he's giving me at the rate of seventy roubles the acre."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIMThe Rangoon one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.
-- The Salt Lake, seventy miles long and thirty-five wide, is situated three miles eight hundred feet above the sea.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Tozer whined a good deal, and promised to send her seventy dollars a month till she should be prepared for office-work.
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
-- With seventy thousand people, it is a smaller Zenith but no less brisk.
-- At eleven the victory was certain, and Martin, his bowels weak with unconfidence, realized that he was now Director of Public Health, with responsibility for seventy thousand lives.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Marfa Petrovna turned up; she bargained with him and bought me off for thirty thousand silver pieces (I owed seventy thousand).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here's the cottage, taking one time with another, willproduce, say seventy pounds a year.
-- 'To think of that!Not that I mean tosay it's rigidly limited to seventy pounds a year, because I havealways contemplated making any young friend I might thusemploy, a present too.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In due time a small stream began to trickle through the seventy feet of aerial space between its mouth and the ground, which the water-drops smote like duckshot in their accelerated velocity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fight and fall back!Fight and fall back!For seventy miles and twenty-five days the Confederates had foughtalmost daily.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the first, you are to understand, that for about seventy moons past there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tra-mecksan and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels of their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But is it not well-known that heat increases one degree for every seventy feet you descend into the earth?
-- It contains thirty thousand square miles of surface, and has about seventy thousand inhabitants.
-- This mighty turf pit, measured from the bottom of certain ravines, is often not less than seventy feet deep, and presents to the eye the view of successive layers of black burned-up rocky detritus, separated by thin streaks of porous sandstone.
-- Since we left Port Gretchen, we had traveled two hundred and seventy leagues--more than eight hundred miles-on this great inland sea; we were, therefore, six hundred and twenty leagues from Iceland, and exactly under England.
-- At Harry's Island we had already gone over two hundred and seventy leagues of sea, and we were, I believe, about six hundred leagues, more or less, from Iceland."
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：
-- Among other monstrosities in this lumber room was a largish blackjapanned box, excellently and ingeniously made some sixty or seventy years ago, and fitted with ev-ery imaginable object.
-- I've been struggling to get myself clear of the skirts of old women for seventy years, and haven't managed it yet.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her faith in the good spot which exists in the heart of the naughtiest, sauciest, most tantalizing little ragamuffin gave her patience, skill, and in time success, for no mortal boy could hold out long with Father Bhaer shining on him as benevolently as the sun, and Mother Bhaer forgiving him seventy times seven.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete.
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