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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for allher plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddlytouching and far older than her seventeen years.
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
-- She was only seventeen now and there was still a lot of dancing left in her feet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This went on until seventeen minutes past twelve, the precise instant at which we rejoined Hans, who, having been somewhat in advance, had suddenly stopped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was taken some seventeen years ago.
-- His Lordship married, in seventeen ninety-seven, Lady Jemima Bilberry, who was the second daughter by the third marriage no!There I am wrong!That was Lady Seraphina Lady Jemima was the first daughter by the second marriage of the fifteenth Earl of Stiltstalking with the Honourable Clementina Toozellem.
-- This sum, Mr Clennam would be happy to learn, he had, through the promptitude of several friends who had a lively confidence in his probity, already raised, with the exception of a trifling balance of one pound seventeen and fourpence; the loan of which balance, for the period of one month, would be fraught with the usual beneficent consequences.
-- There she broke down, poor thing, and gave the other seventeen to the four winds.
-- Then would the noble or right honourable Barnacle perceive, sir, from this little document, which he thought might carry conviction even to the perversest mind (Derisive laughter and cheering from the Barnacle fry), that within the short compass of the last financial half-year, this much-maligned Department (Cheers) had written and received fifteen thousand letters (Loud cheers), had written twenty-four thousand minutes (Louder cheers), and thirty-two thousand five hundred and seventeen memoranda (Vehement cheering).
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Jo, looking at the tall lad, whom she had imagined seventeen already.
-- 'Nearer my sister Jo's, I am seventeen in August,' re-turned Meg, tossing her head.
-- It is natural and right you should all go to homes of your own in time, but I do want to keep my girls as long as I can, and I am sorry that this happened so soon, for Meg is only seventeen and it will be some years before John can make a home for her.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he told me, as well as he could, how kind they were to seventeen white men, or bearded men, as he called them who came on shore there in distress.
-- But still I found a strong inclination to attempting my escape, founded on the supposition gathered from the discourse, that there were seventeen bearded men there; and therefore, without any more delay, I went to work with Friday to find out a great tree proper to fell, and make a large periagua, or canoe, to undertake the voyage.
-- I told them the story also of the seventeen Spaniards that were to be expected, for whom I left a letter, and made them promise to treat them in common with themselves.
-- On a sudden, at another open-ing of the wood, we heard the noise of a gun, and looking that way, out rushed a horse, with a saddle and a bridle on him, flying like the wind, and sixteen or seventeen wolves after him, full speed: the horse had the advantage of them; but as we supposed that he could not hold it at that rate, we doubted not but they would get up with him at last: no ques-tion but they did.
-- When we had fired a second volley of our fusees, wethought they stopped a little, and I hoped they would have gone off, but it was but a moment, for others came forward again; so we fired two volleys of our pistols; and I believe in these four firings we had killed seventeen or eighteen of them, and lamed twice as many, yet they came on again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perhaps," said Elinor, "thirty-five and seventeen had better not have any thing to do with matrimony together.
-- At seventeen she was lost to me for ever.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was thinking if she had only herself to support this would leave her seventeen for herself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim said he bet she did think of it by the time the men was ready to start, and he believed they must a gone up-town to get a dog and so they lost all that time, or else we wouldn't be here on a towhead sixteen or seventeen mile below the village no, indeedy, we would be in that same old town again.
-- He shed them so thick they kind of clogged up the air, and altogether he shed seventeen suits.
-- It jolted her up like everything, of course; but I was over the shoal water now, so I went right along, her eyes a-blaz-ing higher and higher all the time, and told her every blame thing, from where we first struck that young fool going up to the steamboat, clear through to where she flung herself on to the king's breast at the front door and he kissed her sixteen or seventeen times and then up she jumps, with her face afire like sunset, and says: 'The brute!Come, don't waste a minute not a SEC-OND we'll have them tarred and feathered, and flung in the river!'
-- I was a- studying over my text in Acts Seventeen before break- fast, and I reckon I put it in there, not noticing, meaning to put my Testament in, and it must be so, because my Testament ain't in; but I'll go and see; and if the Testament is where I had it, I'll know I didn't put it in, and that will show that I laid the Testament down and took up the spoon, and ' 'Oh, for the land's sake!Give a body a rest!Go 'long now, the whole kit and biling of ye; and don't come nigh me again till I've got back my peace of mind.'
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