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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This girl had always been the favourite of her father, but through a strange perversity, her mother could not en-dure her, and after the death of M. Moritz, treated her very ill. My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards ofbillowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recentlybrought her from Atlanta.
-- Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkesplantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.
-- Dilcey was head woman andmidwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buyDilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.
-- "How are they all over at Twelve Oaks?"
-- The stranger, a native of Savannah, had just returned after twelve years in the inlandcountry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe pronounced this word, as if it began with at least twelve capital Bs.
-- The remains of my poor sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,--the postboy and his comrade.
-- It was between twelve and one o'clock when I reached the Temple, and the gates were shut.
-- "Why, I suppose you have not done such a thing these twelve months."
-- "These twelve years, more likely," said Wemmick.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gar-dener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.
-- As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
-- At twelve o'clock at night the princess goes to the bathing-house: go up to her and give her a kiss, and she will let you lead her away; but take care you do not suffer her to go and take leave of her father and mother.'
-- As they came to the castle, all was as the fox had said, and at twelve o'clock the young man met the princes go-ing to the bath and gave her the kiss, and she agreed to run away with him, but begged with many tears that he would let her take leave of her father.
-- Now there were thirteen fairies in the kingdom; but as the king and queen had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they 33were forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition.
-- I was diverted with none so much as that of the rope-danc-ers, performed upon a slender white thread, extended about two feet, and twelve inches from the ground.
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- The lanes and alleys, which I could not enter, but only view them as I passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive.
-- Six windows on this side of the door, six on that side; a total of twelve in this wing, a total of twelve in the other wing; four-and-twenty carried over to the back wings.
-- Being then disturbed, they made off; letting themselves out at the main door, and double-locking it again (it was double-locked, and the key under Mrs. Sparsit's pillow) with a false key, which was picked up in the street near the Bank, about twelve o'clock to-day.
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