eighteen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 十八， 十八个，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：
-- 'More than eighteen hundred,' said the Ghost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The answer was always the same: 'Almost eighteen years.'
-- 'Almost eighteen years.'
-- 'Almost eighteen years.'
-- 'Eighteen years!'
-- 'Gracious Creator of day!To be buried alive for eighteen years!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had to ask them, and I made them sauce for eighteen pence, and everybody was very much pleased with it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for, while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva's tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own: three strokes of a large-tooth comb completed his toilet.
-- Mr. Fogg offered first twelve hundred, then fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, two thousand pounds.
-- The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gottlieb was working eighteen hours a day on new experiments; he was jumpy and testy; he gave orders like insults.
-- That means, when the time's ripe, we'll offer him eighteen and close for twenty-one-seventy-five.
-- Martin repeated his experiment, testing the cultures for hemolysin after two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, and eighteen hours of incubation.
-- Hers was a palace, and palaces, whether they are such very little ones as Joyce's, with its eighteen rooms, or Buckingham or vast Fontainebleau, are all alike; they are choked with the superfluities of pride, they are so complete that one does not remember small endearing charms, they are indistinguishable in their common feeling of polite and uneasy grandeur, they are therefore altogether tedious.
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：
-- Then there will be the hospital di-rectly (that's always the luck of those girls with respectable mothers, who go wrong on the sly) and then 芒聙娄 again the hospital 芒聙娄 drink 芒聙娄 the taverns 芒聙娄 and more hospital, in two or three years a wreck, and her life over at eighteen or nineteen芒聙娄.
-- Sonia was a small thin girl of eighteen with fair hair, rather pretty, with wonderful blue eyes.
-- In spite of her eighteen years, she looked almost a little girl almost a child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find he was right,however; for it has not only lasted to the present moment, but hasdone so in the teeth of a great parliamentary report made (not toowillingly) eighteen years ago, when all these objections of minewere set forth in detail, and when the existing stowage for willswas described as equal to the accumulation of only two years and ahalf more.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
-- Her disposition and abilities were equally worthy of all that friendship could do; and at eighteen or nineteen she was, as far as such an early age can be qualified for the care of children, fully competent to the office of instruction herself; but she was too much beloved to be parted with.
-- Sixteen miles nay, eighteen it must be full eighteen to Manchester-street was a serious obstacle.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel's energies, patience, and industry had been so severely taxed during the years of his life between eighteen and eight-and-twenty, to reach his present stage of progress that no more seemed to be left in him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These two ladies paid eighteen hundred francs a year.
-- There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme.
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