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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The name of the yacht was the DUNCAN, and the owner was Lord Glenarvan, one of the sixteen Scotch peers who sit in the Upper House, and the most distinguished member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, so famous throughout the United Kingdom.
-- The girl was about sixteen years of age; her tired pretty face, and sorrowful eyes, and resigned but courageous look, as well as her neat though poor attire, made a favorable impression.
-- "And more recently," added Michael, "one of the last numbers of the AUSTRALASIA informs us that a certain Morrilli has just been restored to his countrymen after sixteen years of slavery.
-- It was still thirty miles distant from the yacht, whose stem was rapidly cutting her way over the water at the rate of sixteen knots an hour.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its horns were sixteen palms long, and a worker in horn had made them into a bow, smoothing them well down, and giving them tips of gold.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sixteen years being bullied by nurses and schoolmasters at their own sweet will; five in London grinding hard at med-icine, bad food, shabby lodgings, shabby clothes, shabby vice, a blunder, I didn't know any better, and hustled off to this beastly island.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sixteen hours in bed!the small of my back ached to think of it.
-- This whale averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length.
-- The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.
-- " holding up a broad bright coin to the sun "it is a sixteen dollar piece, men.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well it sounds!And she was only sixteen last June.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My dog was a pleasant and loving companion to me for no less than sixteen years of my time, and then died of mere old age.
-- The perturbation of my mind during this fifteen or sixteen months' interval was very great; I slept unquietly, dreamed always frightful dreams, and often started out of my sleep in the night.
-- But my thoughts were a little suspended when I had a serious discourse with the Spaniard, and when I un-derstood that there were sixteen more of his countrymen and Portuguese, who having been cast away and made their escape to that side, lived there at peace, indeed, with the sav-ages, but were very sore put to it for necessaries, and, indeed, for life.
-- His caution was so seasonable, and his advice so good, that I could not but be very well pleased with his propos-al, as well as I was satisfied with his fidelity; so we fell to digging, all four of us, as well as the wooden tools we were furnished with permitted; and in about a month's time, by the end of which it was seed-time, we had got as much land cured and trimmed up as we sowed two-and- twenty bush-els of barley on, and sixteen jars of rice, which was, in short, all the seed we had to spare: indeed, we left ourselves barely sufficient, for our own food for the six months that we had to expect our crop; that is to say reckoning from the time we set our seed aside for sowing; for it is not to be supposed it is six months in the ground in that country.
-- It was now harvest, and our crop in good order: it was not the most plentiful increase I had seen in the island, but, however, it was enough to answer our end; for from twenty-two bushels of barley we brought in and thrashed out above two hundred and twenty bushels; and the like in proportion of the rice; which was store enough for our food to the next harvest, though all the sixteen Spaniards had been on shore with me; or, if we had been ready for a voyage, it would very plentifully have victualled our ship to have carried us to any part of the world; that is to say, any part of America.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On each side of the entrance was a sitting room, about sixteen feet square; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs.
-- Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ran up a grocery bill of sixteen dollars with Oeslogge, laying in a supply of staple articles, so that they would not have to buy any of those things for some time to come.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- Jim said he bet she did think of it by the time the men was ready to start, and he believed they must a gone up-town to get a dog and so they lost all that time, or else we wouldn't be here on a towhead sixteen or seventeen mile below the village no, indeedy, we would be in that same old town again.
-- Pa was pretty poor, and had some debts; so when he'd squared up there warn't noth-ing left but sixteen dollars and our nigger, Jim.
-- It jolted her up like everything, of course; but I was over the shoal water now, so I went right along, her eyes a-blaz-ing higher and higher all the time, and told her every blame thing, from where we first struck that young fool going up to the steamboat, clear through to where she flung herself on to the king's breast at the front door and he kissed her sixteen or seventeen times and then up she jumps, with her face afire like sunset, and says: 'The brute!Come, don't waste a minute not a SEC-OND we'll have them tarred and feathered, and flung in the river!'
-- They stole that shirt right off o' the line!and as for that sheet they made the rag ladder out of, ther' ain't no telling how many times they DIDN'T steal that; and flour, and candles, and candlesticks, and spoons, and the old warming-pan, and most a thousand things that I disremember now, and my new calico dress; and me and Silas and my Sid and Tom on the constant watch day AND night, as I was a-telling you, and not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them; and here at the last minute, lo and behold you, they slides right in under our noses and fools us, and not only fools US but the Injun Terri- tory robbers too, and actuly gets AWAY with that nigger safe and sound, and that with sixteen men and twenty- two dogs right on their very heels at that very time!I tell you, it just bangs anything I ever HEARD of.
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