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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This circumstance had come into existence eighteen years before.
-- 'You're right, clerk,' said the latter, 'you're right, tipsy spir-it you're right! Nastasia Philipovna,' he added, looking at her like some lunatic, harmless generally, but suddenly wound up to a pitch of audacity, 'here are eighteen thou-sand roubles, and and you shall have more .'
-- 'Eighteen thousand roubles, for me?
-- He was bargaining for me, you know; first he offered me eighteen thousand; then he rose to forty, and then to a hun-dred thousand.
-- These three documents, their dates, and the facts mentioned in them, prove in the most undeniable manner, that eighteen months before your birth, Nico-lai Andreevitch went abroad, where he remained for three consecutive years.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat 'Myrtle,' and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible 'Medusa' case.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Petersen Sahib had spent eighteen years in catching elephants, and he had only once before found such a dance-place.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
-- In fact, this calculation placed it at least twelve hundred miles from Tahiti and the islands of the archipelago of the Pomoutous, more than eighteen hundred miles from New Zealand, and more than four thousand five hundred miles from the American coast!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a dirty little box, this counting-house, with nothing in it but an old ricketty desk and two stools, a hat-peg, an ancient almanack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight-day clock which hadn't gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minute-hand had been twisted off for a tooth-pick.
-- 'Oh, but please will you come and show the lodgings,' returned the girl; 'It's eighteen shillings a week and us finding plate and linen.
-- This is a swimmer, sir, this fellow a diver, Lord save us!This is a boy, sir, who had a fancy for plunging into eighteen feet of water, with his clothes on, and bringing up a blind man's dog, who was being drowned by the weight of his chain and collar, while his master stood wringing his hands upon the bank, bewailing the loss of his guide and friend.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Thirty-four; born in eighteen hundred----" "What faith?"
-- That the servant of said Hotel Mauritania, Euphemia Bochkova, deposited in her name in the local Bank of Commerce the sum of eighteen hundred rubles.
-- "And when Euphemia Bochkova was shown her bank account of eighteen hundred rubles," continued the secretary, "and asked how she came by the money, she testified that the money was saved from their earnings by herself and Simon Kartinkin, whom she intended to marry.
-- Vladimir Vasilievitch Wolf was really un homme tr脙篓s comme il faut, and this quality he placed above all else; from the height of it he looked upon all other people, and could not help valuing this quality, because, thanks to it, he had gained a brilliant career--the same career he strove for; that is to say, through marriage he obtained a fortune, which brought him a yearly income of eighteen thousand rubles, and by his own efforts he obtained a senatorship.
-- There were eighteen cars, and all, except the one reserved for the authorities, were literally packed with prisoners.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.
-- It was a vast, four-sided room, thirty feet long, eighteen wide, and fifteen high.
-- We were then about eighteen hundred miles from our starting-point, and the course of the Nautilus, a little changed, was bringing it back towards the southeast.
-- These beautiful animals, peaceable and inoffensive, from eighteen to twenty-one feet in length, weigh at least sixteen hundredweight.
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