eleven是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 十一pron. /a. 十一(个, 只…),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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I beg to hand to my friend Mr.Thomas Traddles my I. O. U. for forty-one, ten, eleven and a half,and I am happy to recover my moral dignity, and to know that Ican once more walk erect before my fellowman!'
-- 'Or as certain as they used to teach at school (the same schoolwhere I picked up so much umbleness), from nine o'clock toeleven, that labour was a curse; and from eleven o'clock to one,that it was a blessing and a cheerfulness, and a dignity, and I don'tknow what all, eh?'
-- These, it seemed, were calculations of compound interest on whathe called 'the principal amount of forty-one, ten, eleven and a half,'for various periods.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Suckling, who has been eleven years a resident at Maple Grove, and whose fa-ther had it before him I believe, at least I am almost sure that old Mr. Suckling had completed the purchase before his death.'
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).
-- "Old Twills wouldn't hire me for more than eleven months at a time, to keep me from being chargeable to the parish if so be I was disabled.
-- "Oh, Frank I made a mistake! I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said.
-- A few minutes after eleven had struck, Maryann turned in her bed with a sense of being disturbed.
-- In anger he vowed it should be the last, and at eleven o'clock, when he had lingered and watched the stone of the bridge till he knew every lichen upon their face and heard the chink of the ripples underneath till they oppressed him, he jumped from his seat, went to the inn for his gig, and in a bitter mood of indifference concerning the past, and recklessness about the future, drove on to Budmouth races.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 89Chapter 8 e passed a few sad hours until eleven o'clock, when Wthe trial was to commence.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankeeassault bloodily repulsed.
-- Within eleven days after he had taken command, General Hood had lost almost as many men as Johnston had lostin seventy-four days of battle and retreat, and Atlanta was hemmed in on three sides.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The way by which we approached it took us past the Three Jolly Bargemen, which we were surprised to find--it being eleven o'clock--in a state of commotion, with the door wide open, and unwonted lights that had been hastily caught up and put down scattered about.
-- I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o'clock.
-- Besides them three gentlemen that I have named, I don't call to mind another since about eleven o'clock, when a stranger asked for you."
-- Chapter LIXFor eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily eyes,--though they had both been often before my fancy in the East,--when, upon an evening in December, an hour or two after dark, I laid my hand softly on the latch of the old kitchen door.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just as eleven of them had done blessing her, a great noise was heard in the courtyard, and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy was come, with a black cap on her head, and black shoes on her feet, and a broomstick in her hand: and presently up she came into the dining- hall.
-- But all the gifts of the first eleven fairies were in the mean-time fulfilled; for the princess was so beautiful, and well behaved, and good, and wise, that everyone who knew her loved her.
-- She thought for a moment and said: 'Dear father, I wish for eleven girls exactly like myself in face, figure, and size.'
-- The father said: 'If it be pos-298 Grimms' Fairy Talessible, your desire shall be fulfilled,' and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maid-ens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and size.
-- When they came to the king's daughter, she had twelve suits of huntsmen's clothes made, all alike, and the eleven maidens had to put on the huntsmen's clothes, and she her-self put on the twelfth suit.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king's smith conveyed fourscore and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with six-and-thir-ty padlocks.
-- The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a half high, and at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and horses may be driven very safely round it; and it is flanked with strong towers at ten feet distance.
-- It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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