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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Scadgers (an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years) contrived the marriage, at a period when Sparsit was just of age, and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly supported on two long slim props, and surmounted by no head worth mentioning.
-- At another time it occurred to him, 'Or a fellow of about thirteen or fourteen stone might be hired by the hour.'
-- 'Any way,' said Sleary, after putting his lips to his brandy and water, 'ith fourteen month ago, Thquire, thinthe we wath at Chethter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
-- "So that science is wrong by fourteen hundred and seventy-four degrees and four-tenths.
-- In the very centre of this prodigious mass, fourteen hundred thousand times as large as our globe, I was whirled round in space, and brought into close conjunction with the planets.
-- While at work, they unexpectedly came upon a human jawbone buried fourteen feet below the surface of the soil.
-- Fourteen feet high, covered with coarse hair, of a blackish brown, the hair on the arms, from the shoulder to the elbow joints, pointing downwards, while that from the wrist to the elbow pointed upwards, it advanced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They come a racing out of Lad Lane and Wood Street at twelve or fourteen mile a hour, them Mails do.
-- Shortly afterwards, the courier announced that the valet, and the footman, and the two maids, and the four guides, and the fourteen mules, were in readiness; so the breakfast party went out to the convent door to join the cavalcade.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won't all come.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of these little infants, that from certain queer tokens seemed hardly a day old, might have measured some fourteen feet in length, and some six feet in girth.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our ship was about one hundred and twenty tons bur-den, carried six guns and fourteen men, besides the master, his boy, and myself.
-- It was not without infinite labour that I felled this tree; I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bottom; I was fourteen more getting the branches and limbs and the vast spreading head cut off, which I hacked and hewed through with axe and hatchet, and inexpressible labour; after this, it cost me a month to shape it and dub it to a proportion, and to something like the bottom of a boat, that it might swim upright as it ought to do.
-- One of these, which was the driest and largest, and had a door out beyond my wall or fortification - that is to say, beyond where my wall joined to the rock - was all filled up with the large earthen pots of which I have given an account, and with fourteen or fifteen great baskets, which would hold five or six bushels each, where I laid up my stores of provisions, especially my corn, some in the ear, cut off short from the straw, and the other rubbed out with my hand.
-- Thirdly, there was the Prior of St. Augustine's account, who had received the profits for above fourteen years; but not being able to account for what was disposed of by the hospital, very honestly declared he had eight hundred and seventy-two moidores not distributed, which he acknowl-edged to my account: as to the king's part, that refunded nothing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!Miss Dashwood a subject such as this untouched for fourteen years it is dangerous to handle it at all!I WILL be more collected more concise.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'd get about fourteen hundred a year out of that."
-- "I guess they pay twelve or fourteen dollars a week."
-- When it's full on, you make about fourteen miles an hour."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thir-teen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
-- 'Bout three months ago my cousin Bud, fourteen year old, was riding through the woods on t'other side of the river, and didn't have no weapon with him, which was blame' foolishness, and in a lonesome place he hears a horse a-coming behind him, and sees old Baldy Shepherdson a-linkin' after him with his gun in his hand and his white hair a-flying in the wind; and 'stead of jumping off and taking to the brush, Bud 'lowed he could out- run him; so they had it, nip and tuck, for five mile or more, the old man a-gaining all the time; so at last Bud seen it warn't any use, so he stopped and faced around so as to have the bullet holes in front, you know, and the old man he rode up and shot him down.
-- That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way.
-- 'Mary Jane's nineteen, Susan's fifteen, and Joanna's about fourteen that's the one that gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip.'
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