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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The newspapers gave him large headlines, and when he had returned to kiss Leora and sleep twelve hours, he lay and thought about research with salty self-defensive scorn.
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：
-- There were twelve silver roubles left in the chest!'
-- Is it twelve o'clock?
-- Even if I had lingered on like that, in ten or twelve years I might (with luck) hope to be some sort of teacher or clerk with a salary of a thousand rou-bles' (he repeated it as though it were a lesson) 'and by that time my mother would be worn out with grief and anxiety and I could not succeed in keeping her in comfort while my sister 芒聙娄 well, my sister might well have fared worse!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I recordthat I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday,at twelve o'clock at night.
-- This was in part confirmed by hisaunt, who saw him at half-past twelve o'clock, soon after hisrelease, and affirmed that he was then as red as I was.
-- As, how he had not yet been married twelve 226months to the beautiful young lady I had seen in the study, whomhe had married for love; for she had not a sixpence, and had aworld of poor relations (so our fellows said) ready to swarm theDoctor out of house and home.
-- Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for apresent, I wonder?
-- But the mingled reality and mystery ofthe whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, themusic, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glitteringand brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up suchillimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainystreet, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from theclouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to abawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, pattern-clinking, muddy, miserable world.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old.
-- I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easter and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been con-vinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence. If any body can deserve him, it must be Miss Taylor.'
-- There probably was something more to conceal than her own preference; Mr. Dixon, perhaps, had been very near changing one friend for the other, or been fixed only to Miss Campbell, for the sake of the future twelve thousand pounds.
-- The morning of the interesting day arrived, and Mrs. Weston's faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o'clock, that she was to think of her at four.
-- The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
-- Then followed the dull and remote resonance of the twelve heavy strokes in the tower above.
-- Before twelve hours had passed a harvest atmosphere would be a bygone thing.
-- I'll sit up for him myself till twelve o'clock, and if he has not arrived by that time, I shall give him up and go to bed too."
-- And when the last sad scene came on, and the body of the gallant and faithful Bess had to be carried out on a shutter by twelve volunteers from among the spectators, nothing could restrain Poorgrass from lending a hand, exclaiming, as he asked Jan to join him, "'Twill be something to tell of at Warren's in future years, Jan, and hand down to our children."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law student, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him.
-- Couture; he had paid twelve hundred francs a year like a man to whom five louis more or less was a mere trifle.
-- At that time Goriot was paying twelve hundred francs a year to his landlady, and Mme.
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
-- I am in a position to make a rapid fortune, but I want twelve hundred francs--I must have them at all costs.
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