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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son his name was Robert was a boy of sixteen at Rugby; and you saw him in flannels and a cricket cap, and again in a tail-coat and a stand-up collar.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They little knew that sixteen days afterwards a frightful crime would be committed in Washington, and that on Good Friday Abraham Lincoln would fall by the hand of a fanatic.
-- "The oyster contains very little nitrogen, and if a man lived exclusively on them, he would have to eat not less than fifteen to sixteen dozen a day."
-- It was an enormous animal, fifteen or sixteen feet long, and must have weighed from three to four thousand pounds.
-- Without thinking of the danger to which they might be exposed, the explorers were now impelled by an irresistible curiosity, and in a few minutes, sixteen feet lower they rejoined Top.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Melissa might have seen five-and-thirty summers or thereabouts, and verged on the autumnal; Miss Sophy was a fresh, good humoured, buxom girl of twenty; and Miss Jane numbered scarcely sixteen years.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That Smelkoff had drawn from the bank, some time before his death, three thousand eight hundred rubles; that, after a due and careful inventory of the money of the deceased, only three hundred and twelve rubles and sixteen kopecks were found.
-- She was sixteen years old when she was married, and she made the attempt immediately after her marriage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next to the kitchen was the berth-room of the vessel, sixteen feet long.
-- During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less than a third of an inch thick resist a pressure of sixteen atmospheres.
-- These beautiful animals, peaceable and inoffensive, from eighteen to twenty-one feet in length, weigh at least sixteen hundredweight.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have lived here a considerable time,' I commenced; 'did you not say sixteen years?
-- He had reached the age of sixteen then, I think, and without having bad features, or being deficient in intellect, he contrived to convey an impression of inward and outward repulsiveness that his present aspect retains no traces of.
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