fourteen是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 十四, 十四个,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the Tatar appeared with a bill for twenty-six roubles and odd kopecks, besides a tip for himself, Levin, who would another time have been horrified, like any one from the country, at his share of fourteen roubles, did not notice it, paid, and set off homewards to dress and go to the Shtcherbatskys' there to decide his fate.
-- Chapter 14 When Kitty had gone and Levin was left alone, he felt such uneasiness without her and such an impatient longing to get as quickly, as quickly as possible, to tomorrow morning, when he would see her again and be plighted to her forever, that he felt afraid, as though of death, of those fourteen hours that he had to get through without her.
-- He had fourteen birds.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOESEverybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
-- One tunnel only, fourteen thousand feet in length, was pierced in order to arrive at the great basin.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had published them in the Midwest Medical Quarterly, of which he was one of fourteen editors.
-- The clinic occupied fourteen rooms in a twenty-story building constructed (or so Martin certainly remembered it) of marble, gold, and rubies.
-- 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.
-- That leaves-- two and six and two make ten, if I'm any authority on higher math--that leaves fourteen hours a day for research (except when you got something special on), with no Director and no Society patrons and no Trustees that you've got to satisfy by making fool reports.
-- For fourteen years Martin had not seen him.
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:
-- And then, honoured sir, and then, I, being at the time a widower, with a daughter of fourteen left me by my first wife, offered her my hand, for I could not bear the sight of such suffering.
-- I am a man because I err!You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hiding the ravages of care witha sickly mask of mirth, I have not informed you, this evening, thatthere is no hope of the remittance!Under these circumstances, alikehumiliating to endure, humiliating to contemplate, andhumiliating to relate, I have discharged the pecuniary liabilitycontracted at this establishment, by giving a note of hand, madepayable fourteen days after date, at my residence, Pentonville,London.
-- After a careful consideration of these, and anelaborate estimate of his resources, he had come to the conclusionto select that sum which represented the amount with compoundinterest to two years, fifteen calendar months, and fourteen days,from that date.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fourteen minutes to be given to those with whom she had thankfully passed six weeks not six months ago! Emma could not but picture it all, and feel how justly they might resent, how nat-urally Harriet must suffer.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Then I malted at Durnover four year, and four year turnip-hoeing; and I was fourteen times eleven months at Millpond St. Jude's" (nodding north-west-by-north).
-- You have been a widow-lady fourteen months, and ought to brighten up a little on such a night as this."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When his outfit was worn out, he replaced the fine linen by calico at fourteen _sous_ the ell.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were the same emotions that struck herspeechless that day when she was fourteen years old and she had stood on the porch of Tara and seen Ashley ride upsmiling, his hair shining silver in the morning sun.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He trav-elled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
-- Therefore, in hopes to defray some of the charges he must be at, he bought a sloop, loaded it with sev-eral sorts of goods, wherewith the Tonquinese usually trade to the neighbouring islands, and putting fourteen men on board, whereof three were of the country, he appointed me master of the sloop, and gave me power to traffic, while he transacted his affairs at Tonquin.
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
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