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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sissy was at her mother's side; and Jane, her sister, now ten or twelve years old, was in the room.
-- As to your daughter, whom I made Loo Bounderby, and might have done better by leaving Loo Gradgrind, if she don't come home to-morrow, by twelve o'clock at noon, I shall understand that she prefers to stay away, and I shall send her wearing apparel and so forth over here, and you'll take charge of her for the future.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this way twelve o'clock came round.
-- At twelve o'clock exactly, when the sun had attained its highest altitude for the day, the shadow fell upon the edge of the central pit!
-- About twelve o'clock there was a great and sudden change in the aspect of the rocky sides of the gallery.
-- On the eighth, however, at twelve o'clock in the day, the fissure suddenly assumed a much more gentle slope still trending in a southeast direction.
-- "Yes, my excellent nephew," replied my uncle, rubbing his hands with the gusto of a philosopher, "and you see by these several streaks of foam that the tide rises at least ten or twelve feet."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she actually helped to make. 'Clifford and I together, we make twelve hundred a year out of writing'; so she put it to herself.
-- Twelve hundred pounds last year!was the retort simple and final.
-- No one would have dreamed that the stucco hall had stood there twelve months before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put this second one so perseveringly that a stool and twelve shillings a week were at last found for Tip in the office of an attorney in a great National Palladium called the Palace Court; at that time one of a considerable list of everlasting bulwarks to the dignity and safety of Albion, whose places know them no more.
-- Rather better than twelve years ago.'
-- 'Finching oh yes isn't it a dreadful name, but as Mr F. said when he proposed to me which he did seven times and handsomely consented I must say to be what he used to call on liking twelve months, after all, he wasn't answerable for it and couldn't help it could he, Excellent man, not at all like you but excellent man!'
-- They come a racing out of Lad Lane and Wood Street at twelve or fourteen mile a hour, them Mails do.
-- The cares of state were over for that day, the Drawing Room had been well attended, several new presentations had taken place, the three-and-sixpence accidentally left on the table had accidentally increased to twelve shillings, and the Father of the Marshalsea refreshed himself with a whiff of cigar.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo laughed, Meg scolded, Beth implored, and Amy wailed because she couldn't remember how much nine times twelve was.
-- Her little airs and graces were much admired, so were her accomplish-ments, for besides her drawing, she could play twelve tunes, crochet, and read French without mispronouncing more than two-thirds of the words.
-- To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone, and a blow of that sort had never touched her before.
-- 'Just the thing, ' said the girl, and ran to get twelve fine ones from her gar-den.
-- 'Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won't all come.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now hard upon twelve o'clock.
-- "This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have been spent in each month in every district, and the two others to show the number of days in which whales, sperm or right, have been seen."
-- That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
-- The roof is about twelve feet high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone, say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere been cursorily mentioned.
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