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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women who met round the dinner table a poor creature, despised by all the others, condemned to be the butt of all their jokes.
-- Vauquer's astonished eyes beheld no less than eighteen cambric-fronted shirts, the splendor of their fineness being enhanced by a pair of pins each bearing a large diamond, and connected by a short chain, an ornament which adorned the vermicelli-maker's shirt front.
-- He glanced round the squalid room, saw the eighteen poverty- stricken creatures about to feed like cattle in their stalls, and the sight filled him with loathing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How could Melanie be content to stay at homeand never have any fun and wear cr脙陋pe for her brother when she was only eighteen years old?
-- She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yellowwatered silks with garlands of rosebuds; pink satins with eighteen flounces edged with tiny black velvet ribbons; babyblue taffeta, ten yards in the skirt and foamy with cascading lace; exposed bosoms; seductive flowers.
-- Late in April, Colonel Straight and eighteen hundred Yankee cavalry had made a surprise raid intoGeorgia, aiming at Rome, only a little more than sixty miles north of Atlanta.
-- What was the General thinking about, letting the Yankees penetrate eighteen miles farther into Georgia?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lanes and alleys, which I could not enter, but only view them as I passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches.
-- The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and sev-en inches wide.
-- We were ten weeks in our jour-ney, and I was shown in eighteen large towns, besides many villages, and private families.
-- Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe; which I can assert upon expe-rience, having been so curious as to weigh and measure them.
-- The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
-- First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the eighteen denominations?
-- B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
-- These portentous infants being alarming creatures to stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for their improvement which they never did; a surprising circumstance, when the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered.
-- He thought, as she once more shaded them not so much looking at him, as looking for him with a brutish instinct that he was there that no single trace was left in those debauched features, or in the mind that went along with them, of the woman he had married eighteen years before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At eighteen he would have dragged on from hand to mouth, from hour to hour, from penny to penny, until eighty.
-- With these words, and with a hasty gesture fraught with timid caution such a gesture had Clennam's eyes been familiar with in the old time poor Flora left herself at eighteen years of age, a long long way behind again; and came to a full stop at last.
-- Or rather, she left about half of herself at eighteen years of age behind, and grafted the rest on to the relict of the late Mr F.; thus making a moral mermaid of herself, which her once boy-lover contemplated with feelings wherein his sense of the sorrowful and his sense of the comical were curiously blended.
-- He had concealed a dropsy from infancy, he had inherited a large estate of water on the chest from his grandfather, he had had an operation performed upon him every morning of his life for eighteen years, he had been subject to the explosion of important veins in his body after the manner of fireworks, he had had something the matter with his lungs, he had had something the matter with his heart, he had had something the matter with his brain.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mother says I may when I'm eighteen perhaps, but two years is an everlasting time to wait.'
-- So cheek to cheek they fell asleep, and on the morrow Beth seemed quite herself again, for at eighteen neither heads nor hearts ache long, and a loving word can medicine most ills.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth, at the time of sailing, $20,000,000!and every year importing into our harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000.
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