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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Late in April, Colonel Straight and eighteen hundred Yankee cavalry had made a surprise raid intoGeorgia, aiming at Rome, only a little more than sixty miles north of Atlanta.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and smoke; she seized sixty of them at once, and took their lives.
-- Then they were all placed on sixty country carts, and driven home to the king, and for once he was able to deck his table with game, after having had none at all for years.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I guessed his meaning, and my good fortune gave me so much presence of mind, that I resolved not to strug-gle in the least as he held me in the air above sixty feet from the ground, although he grievously pinched my sides, for fear I should slip through his fingers.
-- I confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, 109I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say, they are a comely race of people, and particu-larly the features of my master's countenance, although he was but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned.
-- He provided a table sixty feet in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and pallisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to pre-vent my falling over.
-- His majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in 139his stables: they are generally from fifty-four to sixty feet high.
-- But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinet was near sixty feet long, each key being al-most a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat.
-- On the fourth day, Rachael, with unabated confidence, but considering her despatch to have miscarried, went up to the Bank, and showed her letter from him with his address, at a working colony, one of many, not upon the main road, sixty miles away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These poor priests receive from the Danish Government a most ridiculously inadequate salary, and collect one quarter of the tithe of their parish--not more than sixty marks current, or about L3 10s.
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：
-- And she chose three R. A. pictures of sixty years ago, to send to the Duchess of Shortlands for that lady's next chari-table bazaar.
-- Among other monstrosities in this lumber room was a largish blackjapanned box, excellently and ingeniously made some sixty or seventy years ago, and fitted with ev-ery imaginable object.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young John drew tears from his eyes by finishing the picture with a tombstone in the adjoining churchyard, close against the prison wall, bearing the following touching inscription: 'Sacred to the Memory Of JOHN CHIVERY, Sixty years Turnkey, and fifty years Head Turnkey, Of the neighbouring Marshalsea, Who departed this life, universally respected, on the thirty-first of December, One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, Aged eighty-three years.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she took Amy by the hand, and taught her as she herself had been taught sixty years ago, a process which carried dismay to Amy's soul, and made her feel like a fly in the web of a very strict spider.
-- So was Flo, and we kept bounc-ing from one side to the other, trying to see everything while we were whisking along at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.
-- No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
-- "For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving villages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; by billiard-room and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand almost like milestones, flows one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt and often lawless life.
-- It is worth sixteen dollars, that's true; and at two cents the cigar, that's nine hundred and sixty cigars.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A clean shirt,' thought Oliver, 'is a very comfortable thing; and so are two pairs of darned stockings; and so is a penny; but they are small helps to a sixty -five miles' walk in winter time.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But laying us on board the next time upon our other quarter, he entered sixty men upon our decks, who immediately fell to cutting and hack-ing the sails and rigging.
-- He offered me also sixty pieces of eight more for my boy Xury, which I was loth to take; not that I was unwilling to let the captain have him, but I was very loth to sell the poor boy's liber-ty, who had assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own.
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