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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was in 1861, and for twelve months, or up to May, 1862, letters were regularly received from him, but no tidings whatever had come since his departure from Callao, in June, and the name of the BRITANNIA never appeared in the Shipping List.
-- CHAPTER X THE COURSE DECIDEDA WEEK after they had doubled the Cape Pilares, the DUNCAN steamed into the bay of Talcahuano, a magnificent estuary, twelve miles long and nine broad.
-- The CATAPEZ, as he was called in Chilian, had two natives called PEONS, and a boy about twelve years of age under him.
-- Paganel was rather disconcerted at finding no way out to the other side of the chain, and laid his account with having to undergo great fatigue before the topmost peaks of the Andes could be reached, for their mean height is between eleven and twelve thousand six hundred feet.
-- Every instant he expected the yacht would dash against some rock, for he reckoned the coast could not be more than twelve miles off, and better far be in mid ocean exposed to all its fury than too near land.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At twelve o'clock Barrymore, finding the hall door still open, became alarmed, and, lighting a lantern, went in search of his master.
-- 'There are two lines of old yew hedge, twelve feet high and impenetrable.
-- You and I know that he died of sheer fright, and we know also what fright-ened him; but how are we to get twelve stolid jurymen to know it?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I read that last most praiseworthy thought in my manual, when I was twelve years old,' said Aglaya.
-- 'I once heard the story of a man who lived twelve years in a prison I heard it from the man him-self.
-- III t was now close on twelve o'clock.
-- champagne!That was an interesting item of news, at all events! Twelve bottles!Dear me, that's a very respectable little stock indeed!I bet anything Lebedeff lent somebody money on deposit of this dozen of champagne.
-- It must be about twelve o'clock, now; come home with me do, and we'll see the day in!We'll have some wine, and you shall wish me I don't know what but you, especially you, must wish me a good wish, and I shall wish you full happiness in return.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.'
-- Now after twelve days the immortal gods came back in a body to Olympus, and Jove led the way.
-- Ajax brought twelve ships from Salamis, and stationed them alongside those of the Athenians.
-- These were led by Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, and with him there came twelve ships.
-- Tell her to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva in the acropolis; let her then take her key and open the doors of the sacred building; there, upon the knees of Minerva, let her lay the largest, fairest robe she has in her house the one she sets most store by; let her, moreover, promise to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess, if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from falling on the goodly city of Ilius; for he fights with fury and fills men's souls with panic.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom boom boom twelve licks; and all still again stiller than ever.
-- Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
-- About twelve o'clock we turned out and went along up the bank.
-- The river went on raising and raising for ten or twelve days, till at last it was over the banks.
-- It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches a solid, level floor.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was drawn by twelve pair of donkeys, all of the same size, but all of different color.
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