twelve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 十二pron. /a. 十二(个， 只…)，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.
-- It isn't pos- sible that anything has happened to the sun, and this is twelve at noon.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fountain was a little removed; for the street opened, where it was, into a space some ten or twelve yards square.
-- 'The younger brother impatiently rejoined, 'With twelve o'clock?'
-- No!Taken out of harness one day at noon, to feed if he could find food he sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her bo-som.'
-- Two score and twelve were told off.
-- Nine gone for ever, ten gone for ever, eleven gone for ever, twelve com-ing on to pass away.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ten or twelve crippled-beggars had encamped outside.
-- Will you give the little maiden a potion, that she may possess the strength of twelve men, and vanquish the Snow Queen?'
-- 'The strength of twelve men!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Precisely at twelve o'clock, when Anna was still sitting at her writing table, finishing a letter to Dolly, she heard the sound of measured steps in slippers, and Alexey Alexandrovitch, freshly washed and combed, with a book under his arm, came in to her.
-- On arriving at twelve o'clock from the station at his flat, Vronsky saw, at the outer door, a hired carriage familiar to him.
-- She merely thought that she had to go to see Madame Berthe too that evening, and to make haste home in time for maman's tea at twelve o'clock.
-- They killed three of the best calves by letting them into the clover aftermath without care as to their drinking, and nothing would make the men believe that they had been blown out by the clover, but they told him, by way of consolation, that one of his neighbors had lost a hundred and twelve head of cattle in three days.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch's departure made a great sensation, the more so as just before he started he officially returned the posting-fares allowed him for twelve horses, to drive to his destination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You have plenty of time; it's only twelve o'clock."
-- At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with evident vanity, he proceeded to encase his feet.
-- Mr. Fogg offered first twelve hundred, then fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, two thousand pounds.
-- Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north-east.
-- "I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are twelve thousand students; beside this prodigy Oxford is a tiny theological school and Harvard a select college for young gentlemen.
-- Thus by association with the initial letters they mastered the twelve cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, and the rest.
-- It's practically only a step from that to mayor and then to governor of the state, and if I find the career suits me, there's no reason why in ten or twelve years, say in 1918 or 1920, I shouldn't have the honor of representing the great state of Winnemac in Washington, D.
-- Had Leora been nearer than Wheatsylvania twelve hundred miles away, he would have fled to her for salvation.
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