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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gave the yacht such swiftness that during her trial trip in the Firth of Clyde, she made seventeen miles an hour, a higher speed than any vessel had yet attained.
-- He even sent the boats to make the circuit of the island, the entire extent of which was not more than seventeen miles at most.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Ptitsin was seventeen he slept in the street, he sold pen-knives, and began with a copeck; now he has sixty thousand roubles, but to get them, what has he not done?
-- The latter was only seventeen or eighteen.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seventeen years."
-- "What about seventeen years?"
-- It was clear that a man after seventeen years of wedlock did not leave his wife without certain occurrences which must have led her to suspect that all was not well with their married life.
-- "We'd been married seventeen years.
-- After all, we've been married for seventeen years.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst the passengers were assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on the hull of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle.
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