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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was one of those cataclysms frequent in Chili, and in this very region where Copiapo had been twice destroyed, and Santiago four times laid in ruins in fourteen years.
-- After a fourteen miles' march, they might well think of resting.
-- For fourteen months I cruised with him in the Pacific in search of an advantageous spot for founding a Scotch colony.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wanted to run away when I was fourteen years old I was a little fool then, I know but now I have worked it all out, and I have waited for you to tell me about foreign coun-tries.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not relish fourteen kilometres over a bad pathway, and there was no chance that I could get back to Papeete that night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, no wild beast showed itself, and it was probable that these animals frequented rather the thick forests in the south; but the settlers had the disagreeable surprise of seeing Top stop before a snake of great size, measuring from fourteen to fifteen feet in length.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon afterwards another white-headed little boy came straggling in, and after him a red-headed lad, and after him two more with white heads, and then one with a flaxen poll, and so on until the forms were occupied by a dozen boys or thereabouts, with heads of every colour but grey, and ranging in their ages from four years old to fourteen years or more; for the legs of the youngest were a long way from the floor when he sat upon the form, and the eldest was a heavy good-tempered foolish fellow, about half a head taller than the schoolmaster.
-- 'That, ladies and gentlemen,' said Mrs Jarley, 'is Jasper Packlemerton of atrocious memory, who courted and married fourteen wives, and destroyed them all, by tickling the soles of their feet when they were sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue.
-- When Nell knew all about Mr Packlemerton, and could say it without faltering, Mrs Jarley passed on to the fat man, and then to the thin man, the tall man, the short man, the old lady who died of dancing at a hundred and thirty-two, the wild boy of the woods, the woman who poisoned fourteen families with pickled walnuts, and other historical characters and interesting but misguided individuals.
-- Barbara's mother too, observed that it was very common for young folks to change at about fourteen or fifteen, and whereas they had been very pretty before, to grow up quite plain; which truth she illustrated by many forcible examples, especially one of a young man, who, being a builder with great prospects, had been particular in his attentions to Barbara, but whom Barbara would have nothing to say to; which (though everything happened for the best) she almost thought was a pity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he sat at the window observing the familiar scenery of the now somewhat neglected estate, he not only recalled, but felt himself as he was fourteen years ago; fresh, pure and filled with the hope of endless possibilities.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was now working with fourteen pairs at once, and Alice couldn't help looking at her in great astonishment.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to suppose that he had paid the buccaneers a visit while they all lay drunk together round their fire, and I reckoned up with glee that we had only fourteen enemies to deal with.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It made the round of the frigate, which was then making fourteen knots, and enveloped it with its electric rings like luminous dust.
-- The second sub-class gives us specimens of didactyles fourteen or fifteen inches in length, with yellow rays, and heads of a most fantastic appearance.
-- The 8th of February, from the first dawn of day, Mocha came in sight, now a ruined town, whose walls would fall at a gunshot, yet which shelters here and there some verdant date-trees; once an important city, containing six public markets, and twenty-six mosques, and whose walls, defended by fourteen forts, formed a girdle of two miles in circumference.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The oldest were about fourteen years of age, the youngest, eight.
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