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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first three or four hours—that is to say, for about sixty to eighty miles, as far as Cape Gregory—the coast on either side was low and sandy.
-- "No, it is in the Sierra Tandil, a distance of about sixty miles."
-- Cliffs composed of beds of strata made a coast line sixty to eighty feet high, which it would have been difficult to scale without ladders or cramp-irons.
-- In this fashion, after a march of sixty miles in two days, the caravan reached the parish of Apsley, the first town in the Province of Victoria in the Wimerra district.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Ptitsin was seventeen he slept in the street, he sold pen-knives, and began with a copeck; now he has sixty thousand roubles, but to get them, what has he not done?
-- He remembered seeing something in the window marked at sixty copecks.
-- 'Of course, it's sixty copecks,' he thought, and certainly worth no more.'
-- Instead he had fled from the station, and knew nothing more, until he found himself gazing into the window of a cutler's shop, and wondering if a knife with a staghorn handle would cost more than sixty copecks.
-- One of these cannibals, who had reached a good age, declared of his own free will that during the course of his long and mis-erable life he had personally killed and eaten, in the most profound secrecy, sixty monks, not to mention several chil-dren; the number of the latter he thought was about six, an insignificant total when compared with the enormous mass of ecclesiastics consumed by him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon, lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta, with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea; Laas, moreover, and Oetylus; these were led by Menelaus of the loud battle-cry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others.
-- And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The beach was of dull-grey sand, and sloped steeply up to a ridge, perhaps sixty or seventy feet above the sea-level, and irregularly set with trees and undergrowth.
-- The population of the island, Montgomery informed me, now numbered rather more than sixty of these strange creations of Moreau's art, not counting the smaller mon-strosities which lived in the undergrowth and were without human form.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Black Panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound and was striking he knew better than to waste time in biting right and left among the monkeys, who were seated round Mowgli in circles fifty and sixty deep.
-- He may have be-longed to some little native king's establishment, fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this occasion of removing my ammu-nition I happened to open the barrel of powder which I took up out of the sea, and which had been wet, and I found that the water had penetrated about three or four inches into the powder on every side, which caking and growing hard, had preserved the inside like a kernel in the shell, so that I had near sixty pounds of very good powder in the centre of the cask.
-- But above all, the season for curing the grapes coming on, I caused such a prodigious quantity to be hung up in the sun, that, I believe, had we been at Alicant, where the raisins of the sun are cured, we could have filled sixty or eighty barrels; and these, with our bread, formed a great part of our food - very good living too, I assure you, for they are exceedingly nourishing.
-- to-bacco in roll, and sugar in chests, besides rum, molasses, &c., which is the consequence of a sugar-work; and I found by this account, that every year the income considerably in-creased; but, as above, the disbursements being large, the sum at first was small: however, the old man let me see that he was debtor to me four hundred and seventy moidores of gold, besides sixty chests of sugar and fifteen double rolls of tobacco, which were lost in his ship; he having been ship-wrecked coming home to Lisbon, about eleven years after my having the place.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The large bill of fare held an array of dishes sufficient to feed an army, sidelined with prices which made reasonable expenditure a ridiculous impossibility--an order of soup at fifty cents or a dollar, with a dozen kinds to choose from; oysters in forty styles and at sixty cents the half-dozen; entrees, fish, and meats at prices which would house one over night in an average hotel.
-- Sixty dollars of his good money was up.
-- "I didn't do that thing right the other day," he thought, referring to his loss of sixty dollars.
-- "We owe the milkman sixty cents," added Hurstwood.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and THEY don't care a cent what a thing costs, you know, long as they want it.
-- That was all right as far as it went, but the towhead warn't sixty yards long, and the minute I flew by the foot of it I shot out into the solid white fog, and hadn't no more idea which way I was going than a dead man.
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