twelfth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 第十二，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：
-- 'To the twelfth century, and those immediately preceding and following it.
-- 'It is undoubtedly because, in the twelfth century, monks were the only people one could eat; they were the fat, among many lean,' said Gavrila Ardalionovitch.
-- Keller alone was still disgusted with Lebedeff and his speech; he turned from one to another, saying in a loud voice: 'He attacks education, he boasts of the fanaticism of the twelfth century, he makes absurd grimaces, and added to that he is by no means the innocent he makes himself out to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge had observed this change, but never spoke of it, until they left a children's Twelfth Night party, when, looking at the Spirit as they stood together in an open place, he noticed that its hair was grey.
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：
-- ' Twelfth Night he Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death Ton one of their band.
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：
-- cried the commissariat clerk, gulping down his twelfth glass of vodka.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The twelfth was the daughter of a church clerk and chanter who had drowned her child in a well.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was the twelfth on her list, and she danced every quadrille.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
-- When they came to the king's daughter, she had twelve suits of huntsmen's clothes made, all alike, and the eleven maidens had to put on the huntsmen's clothes, and she her-self put on the twelfth suit.
-- The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty-four, who will even cut off your head; but at the twelfth hour of that night their power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring you the Water of Life, and will wash you with it, and bring you back to life and health.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Given at our palace at Belfaborac, the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had spent eleven days happily with his friends after he had come from Lemnos, but on the twelfth heaven again delivered him into the hands of Achilles, who was to send him to the house of Hades sorely against his will.
-- When, therefore, the morning of the twelfth day had now come, Phoebus Apollo spoke among the immortals saying, 'You gods ought to be ashamed of yourselves; you are cruel and hard-hearted.
-- Then King Priam spoke to them saying, 'Bring wood, O Trojans, to the city, and fear no cunning ambush of the Argives, for Achilles when he dismissed me from the ships gave me his word that they should not attack us until the morning of the twelfth day.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is the Heims-Kringla of Snorre Tarleson," he said, "the celebrated Icelandic author of the twelfth century--it is a true and correct account of the Norwegian princes who reigned in Iceland."
-- The first letter is a double M, which was only added to the Icelandic language in the twelfth century--this makes the parchment two hundred years posterior to the volume."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of lon-gitude difference west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; and began to consult with me what course he should take, for the ship was leaky, and very much disabled, and he was going di-rectly back to the coast of Brazil.
-- But preparing the twelfth time to go on board, I found the wind began to rise: however, at low water I went on board, and though I thought I had rummaged the cabin so effectually that nothing more could be found, yet I dis-covered a locker with drawers in it, in one of which I found two or three razors, and one pair of large scissors, with some ten or a dozen of good knives and forks: in another I found about thirty-six pounds value in money - some Eu-ropean coin, some Brazil, some pieces of eight, some gold, and some silver.
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