sixteen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 十六， 十六个，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shepherd lifted the sixteen large legs and four small bodies he had himself brought, and vanished with them in the direction of the lambing field hard by their frames being now in a sleek and hopeful state, pleasantly contrasting with their death's-door plight of half an hour before.
-- Tall cantered along the bridle-path through Sixteen Acres, Sheeplands, Middle Field, The Flats, Cappel's Piece, shrank almost to a point, crossed the bridge, and ascended from the valley through Springmead and Whitepits on the other side.
-- The horse was seen descending the hill, and the wearisome series had to be repeated in reverse order: Whitepits, Springmead, Cappel's Piece, The Flats, Middle Field, Sheeplands, Sixteen Acres.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How pleased you would be to re- 67mark the improvement of our Ernest!He is now sixteen and full of activity and spirit.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, andthe tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
-- Vanity was stronger than loveat sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
-- You know he's so big for his age and they're takingthem at sixteen now."
-- He was sixteen now and in the Home Guard.
-- Drogheda was in sixteen hundred and somethingand Mr. O'Hara couldn't possibly have been alive then.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less 108 Gulliver's Travelsthan sixteen in circumference.
-- This man was a most ingenious 126 Gulliver's Travelsartist, and according to my direction, in three weeks fin-ished for me a wooden chamber of sixteen feet square, and twelve high, with sash-windows, a door, and two closets, like a London bed-chamber.
-- I ran sideling upon it, that way and this, as fast as I could, banging the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a shift to play a jig, to the great satisfaction of both their majesties; but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent; and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great disadvantage to my per-156 Gulliver's Travelsformance.
-- hus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history Tof my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
-- 382 Gulliver's TravelsFootnotes[1] A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are to the southeast, two hundred and fifty miles from the base of Sneffels, and, according to my preceding notes, I think we have gone sixteen leagues in a downward direction."
-- "Well, suppose we say sixteen hundred in round numbers.
-- Now, out of a voyage of sixteen hundred leagues we have completed sixteen."
-- "Now sixteen is the hundredth part of our contemplated expedition.
-- "Without counting that if a vertical descent of sixteen leagues costs us a horizontal of eighty- five, we shall have to go about eight thousand leagues to the southeast, and we must therefore come out somewhere in the circumference long before we can hope to reach the centre."
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：
-- When he was a lad of sixteen and she a woman of twenty-six.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sixteen or seventeen, I should say,' replied another voice.
-- You are sixteen now, quite old enough to be my confidente, and my experience will be useful to you by-and-by, perhaps, in your own affairs of this sort.'
-- Amy is with truth considered 'the flower of the family', for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
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