nineteen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. /a. 十九pron. 十九(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：
-- 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."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had fifty sons when the Achaeans came here; nineteen of them were from a sin-gle womb, and the others were borne to me by the women of my household.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, Mr Swiveller kept the Marchioness at this establishment until she was, at a moderate guess, full nineteen years of age good-looking, clever, and good-humoured; when he began to consider seriously what was to be done next.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff, raised under the protecting wing of his mother, was at nineteen a perfectly innocent youth.
-- At nineteen I left the house with a girl friend and went to work in a factory," she said.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From nineteen they were already reduced to fifteen, two others were wounded, and one at least the man shot beside the gun severely wounded, if he were not dead.
-- We were seven to nineteen then, or thought we were, and that's as bad to bear.
-- As for Ben Gunn, he got a thousand pounds, which he spent or lost in three weeks, or to be more exact, in nineteen days, for he was back begging on the twentieth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This one, the diameter of which is nineteen feet, and the thread twenty-three feet, performs about 120 revolutions in a second."
-- It coasted even the Island of Kiltan, a land originally coraline, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499, and one of the nineteen principal islands of the Laccadive Archipelago, situated between 10脗掳 and 14脗掳 30' N.
-- From this time for nineteen days, from the 23rd of February to the 12th of March, the Nautilus kept in the middle of the Atlantic, carrying us at a constant speed of a hundred leagues in twenty-four hours.
-- During the nineteen days mentioned above, no incident of any kind happened to signalise our voyage.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- inquired Jo, who persisted in feeling an interest in manly sports despite her nineteen years.
-- It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns, it goes slowly, but it can't be stopped..' 'It shall be stopped, your tide must not turn so soon, nineteen is too young, Beth.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now not a moment to lose, for nineteen of the dreadful wretches sat upon the ground, all close huddled together, and had just sent the other two to butcher the poor Christian, and bring him perhaps limb by limb to their fire, and they were stooping down to untie the bands at his feet.
-- And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days; being delivered from this second captivity the same day of the month that I first made my escape in the long-boat from among the Moors of Sallee.
-- Secondly, there was the account of four years more, while they kept the effects in their hands, before the gov-ernment claimed the administration, as being the effects of a person not to be found, which they called civil death; and the balance of this, the value of the plantation increasing, amounted to nineteen thousand four hundred and forty-six crusadoes, being about three thousand two hundred and forty moidores.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to every thing but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years years, which if rationally spent, give such improvement to the understanding, must have opened his eyes to her defects of education, while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the boys was Buck, and the other was a slim young chap about nineteen years old.
-- Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.
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