fifty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 五十, 五十个,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This mighty natural cavern was about a hundred feet wide, by about a hundred and fifty high.
-- At length, on Wednesday the fifteenth, we were actually seven leagues (twenty-one miles) below the surface of the earth, and fifty leagues distant from the mountain of Sneffels.
-- When, therefore, he informed me that we were fifty leagues in a horizontal direction distant from our starting point, I could not suppress a loud exclamation.
-- We are far beyond Cape Portland; and those fifty leagues to the southeast will take us into the open sea."
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:
-- Connie really wondered at this queer, melancholy speci-men of extraordinary success; it was said he had an income of fifty thousand dollars from America alone.
-- Your own self-importance is more to you, fifty times more, than any man, or being together with a man.'
-- One would think every child in Tevershall, for the last fifty years, had been an immaculate conception, and every one of our nonconform-ist females was a shining Joan of Arc.
-- I shall just go on the same, and wait for you here, if I wait for fifty years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The word being, according to its Genoese emphasis, a confirmation, a contradiction, an assertion, a denial, a taunt, a compliment, a joke, and fifty other things, became in the present instance, with a significance beyond all power of written expression, our familiar English 'I believe you!'
-- Fifty thousand lairs surrounded him where people lived so unwholesomely that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morning; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their butcher's meat.
-- 'As many as forty or fifty in a day have been introduced to my brother,' said Frederick, faintly lighting up with a ray of pride.
-- If a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow margin had not been essential to the blood of the Barnacles, this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among, let us say, ten thousand houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of the money.
-- 'You've been rung for fifty times.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the stern order the buzz ceased, and fifty pairs of blue, black, gray, and brown eyes were obediently fixed upon his awful countenance.
-- These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integ-rity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.
-- 'Oh, what will he say when he comes to that awful fifty dollars!'
-- For a minute the room was very still, then John said slowly but she could feel it cost him an effort to express no displea-sure 芒聙娄 'Well, I don't know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
-- It was after a great feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
-- But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no 脙娄sthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
-- Cetus is a constellation in the South!No more!Drive down your hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off to Queequeg!No more!I know a man that, in his lifetime, has taken three hundred and fifty whales.
-- That's what makes a blow from the hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And with this, the old lady applied herself to warming up, in a little saucepan, a basin full of broth: strong enough, Oliver thought, to furnish an ample dinner, when reduced to the regulation strength, for three hundred and fifty paupers, at the lowest computation.
-- 'Unless you could pitch over a file and twenty yards of good stout rope, you might as well be walking fifty mile off, or not walking at all, for all the good it would do me.
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