sixty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 六十， 六十个，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expecta-tion of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty.
-- And shall I hang back, when Tellson's knows this and says this Tellson's, whose bread I have eat-en these sixty years because I am a little stiff about the joints?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I go there every year shooting, and your forest's worth a hundred and fifty roubles and acre paid down, while he's giving you sixty by installments.
-- An agreement had been made with the old servant, and on the road the bailiff had learned that everywhere the corn was still standing in the fields, so that his one hundred and sixty shocks that had not been carried were nothing in comparison with the losses of others.
-- "Yashvin meant to come this morning with Voytov," said Vronsky; "I believe he's won from Pyevtsov all and more than he can pay, about sixty thousand."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast.
-- Besides, we could not reach Yokohama in time, for it is sixteen hundred and sixty miles from Hong Kong."
-- "Here are sixty thousand," replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank-bills.
-- An American can scarcely remain unmoved at the sight of sixty thousand dollars.
-- There are three hundred and sixty degrees on the circumference of the earth; and these three hundred and sixty degrees, multiplied by four minutes, gives precisely twenty-four hours that is, the day unconsciously gained.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II Max Gottlieb's wife was thick and slow-moving and mute; at sixty she had not learned to speak easy English; and her German was of the small-town bourgeois, who pay their debts and over-eat and grow red.
-- One out of every three persons above the age of sixty has spent a winter in California, and among them are the champion horseshoe pitcher of Pasadena and the woman who presented the turkey which Miss Mary Pickford, the cinema princess, enjoyed at her Christmas dinner in 1912.
-- When Gottlieb insisted to Tubbs at lunch, "I am villing to admit every virtue of the French--I am very fond of that so individual people--but on the theory of probabilities I suggest that there must be some good Germans out of sixty millions," then Col. Dr. Tubbs commanded, "In this time of world tragedy, it does not seem to me particularly becoming to try to be flippant, Dr.
-- When the train stopped between stations and from the engine came a questioning, fretful whistle, he was aghast with certainty that something had gone wrong--a bridge was out, a train was ahead of them; perhaps another was coming just behind them, about to smash into them at sixty miles an hour-- He imagined being wrecked, and he suffered more than from the actual occurrence, for he pictured not one wreck but half a dozen, with assorted miseries.
-- By evening, after working fourteen or fifteen hours since dawn, Stokes would hasten to St. Swithin's by motor-cycle--he hated the joggling and the lack of dignity and he found it somewhat dangerous to take curving hill- roads at sixty miles an hour, but this was the quickest way, and till midnight he conferred with Twyford, gave him orders for the next day, arranged his clumsy annotations, and marveled at his grim meekness.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sum (now I can explain it all to you, my precious Rodya) she took chiefly in order to send you sixty roubles, which you needed so terribly then and which you received from us last year.
-- There turned out to be in the purse three hun-dred and seventeen roubles and sixty copecks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ay, Pimpernel regularly stuck fast, when about sixty yards off, and when I saw Policy stepping on, it did knock my heart against the lining of my ribs, I assure you, my love!"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was sixty years old and his crisp curly hair was silver-white, but his shrewd face was unlined and his hardlittle blue eyes were young with the unworried youthfulness of one who has never taxed his brain with problems moreabstract than how many cards to draw in a poker game.
-- Aunt Pittypat had been christened Sarah lane Hamilton sixty years before, but since the long-past day when herdoting father had fastened his nickname upon her, because of her airy, restless, pattering little feet, no one had calledher anything else.
-- No one ever told her anything really shocking orscandalous, for her spinster state must be protected even if she was sixty years old, and her friends were in a kindlyconspiracy to keep her a sheltered and petted old child.
-- The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butlerhad been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins: That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now adollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
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