seventeen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 十七， 十七个，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scene was Mr. Cruncher's private lodging in Hang-ing-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.
-- And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hun-dred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!
-- said Mr. Lorry, who had left her in exactly the same attitude some seventeen years ago.
-- 461 'On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy a boy of not more than seventeen at the most.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seventeen officers, looking serious and severe, many with pale faces, met together in the pavilion and drew the numbers.
-- Chapter 25 There were seventeen officers in all riding in this race.
-- The race was an unlucky one, and of the seventeen officers who rode in it more than half were thrown and hurt.
-- Writing out on note paper in his minute hand all that he owed, he added up the amount and found that his debts amounted to seventeen thousand and some odd hundreds, which he left out for the sake of clearness.
-- answered Levin, calculating that Vassenka could hardly weigh less than seventeen stone.
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.
-- Could he have followed without deviation the fiftieth parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been about twelve thousand miles; whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods of locomotion, to traverse twenty-six thousand, of which he had, on the 23rd of November, accomplished seventeen thousand five hundred.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of its smallest but oldest industries is Mugford Christian College, which has two hundred and seventeen students, and sixteen instructors, of whom eleven are ministers of the Church of Christ.
-- He held out a newspaper clipping in which, above a pen-and-ink caricature portraying him with large mustached head on a tiny body, was the headline: DOC PICKERBAUGH BANNER BOOSTER OF EVANGELINE COUNTY LEADS BIG GO- TO-CHURCH DEMONSTRATION HERE Pickerbaugh looked it over, reflecting, "That was a dandy meeting!We increased church attendance here seventeen per cent!Oh, Doctor, you went to Winnemac and had your internship in Zenith, didn't you?
-- Well, she's got a right to be!No woman ever stood by a man like--Lee, sweet, can't you see, idiot, if I skipped round the corner with seventeen billion Orchids, it'd be you I loved, and never anybody but you!
-- For Pickerbaugh had the dreadful habit of cold showers, even in winter, though he might have known that nineteen men between the ages of seventeen and forty-two died of cold showers in twenty-two years in Milwaukee alone.
-- He bought, in seventeen minutes, a Palm Beach suit, two new shirts, and, as St. Hubert was a British possession and as he had heard that all Britishers carry canes, a stick which the shop-keeper guaranteed to be as good as genuine malacca.
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：
-- And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, in-sulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
-- There turned out to be in the purse three hun-dred and seventeen roubles and sixty copecks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have to go seventeen hundred yards.
-- Seventeen times that.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A son-in-law is the man for whom we bring up, you and I, a dear little one, bound to us very closely in innumerable ways; for seventeen years she will be the joy of her family, its 'white soul,' as Lamartine says, and suddenly she will become its scourge.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 38 Frankenstein Chapter 3 hen I had attained the age of seventeen my parents Wresolved that I should become a student at the uni- versity of Ingolstadt.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mr. O'Hara," called Ellen as she saw the two coming up the driveway Ellen belonged to a generation that wasformal even after seventeen years of wedlock and the bearing of six children "Mr. O'Hara, there is illness at theSlattery house.
-- The green muslin measured seventeen inches aboutthe waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
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