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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite side of the clearing, and near the point where the brook tumbled over some rocks, from a still high-er level, some fifty or sixty lodges, rudely fabricated of logs brush, and earth intermingled, were to be discovered.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is really a fortunate discovery," said the reporter, "and as it is said that each oyster produces yearly from fifty to sixty thousand eggs, we shall have an inexhaustible supply there."
-- The possible fault which he attributed to errors in the observation was, it may be seen, of five degrees on both sides, which, at sixty miles to a degree, would give an error of three hundred miles in latitude and longitude for the exact position.
-- "Yes, my friends," continued the engineer, "such are the arithmetical progressions of prolific nature; and yet what is this multiplication of the grain of corn, of which the ear only bears eight hundred grains, compared to the poppy-plant, which bears thirty-two thousand seeds; to the tobacco-plant, which produces three hundred and sixty thousand?
-- "No, captain, no, we shan't forget it," replied Pencroft; "and if ever I find one of those tobacco- seeds, which multiply by three hundred and sixty thousand, I assure you I won't throw it away!
-- The river still measured from sixty to seventy feet in breadth, and its bed from five to six feet in depth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'From sixty to seventy.'
-- 'Were you not a few hours since, sixty miles off, and in the chapel to which this good woman goes to say her prayers?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was on the eve of Shrovetide, in the wilds about sixty versts from the railroad.
-- Nekhludoff distributed the sixty rubles that were in his pocketbook and returned home, i. e., to the wing inhabited by the clerk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that.
-- "The common narwhal, or unicorn of the sea, often attains a length of sixty feet.
-- This fluid mass comprises two billions two hundred and fifty millions of cubic miles, forming a spherical body of a diameter of sixty leagues, the weight of which would be three quintillions of tons.
-- The solid had wrested from the liquid thirty-seven million six hundred and fifty-seven square miles, equal to twelve billions nine hundred and sixty millions of acres.
-- This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, among which the Gambier group is remarkable, over which France exercises sway.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may choose what you like: only let it be little, for I shall walk there and back: sixty miles each way, that is a long spell!'
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