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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
-- The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed propor-tionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the con-70 Gulliver's Travelsfinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, when I thought myself at my last gasp, about eleven at night, it being in that region quite dark, we reached the summit of Mount Sneffels!It was in an awful mood of mind, that despite my fatigue, before I descended into the crater which was to shelter us for the night, I paused to behold the sun rise at midnight on the very day of its lowest declension, and enjoyed the spectacle of its ghastly pale rays cast upon the isle which lay sleeping at our feet!
-- We started at one, it was now, therefore, about eleven o'clock at night.
-- "Nine times one hundred and twenty-five feet make a depth of eleven hundred and twenty-five feet."
-- "It is now eleven o'clock at night, and this is once more Sunday.
-- There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I, eleven weeks, to-morrow night at midnight.
-- All these proceedings occupied so long that it struck eleven o'clock at night as he came out at the Hospital Gate.
-- They were soon left alone; nothing more important happening, in the meantime, than the boy looking round his old beam, and saying, 'Everybody at eleven to-morrow, ladies!'
-- and the gentleman with the black hair looking round his old beam, and saying, 'Everybody at eleven to-morrow, darlings!'
-- By about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, something the matter with the brain, became the favourite theory against the field; and by twelve the something had been distinctly ascertained to be 'Pressure.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't eat much supper, and come away at eleven when I send Hannah for you.'
-- laughed the ghost, and having peeped through the keyhole at the princesses spinning away for dear life, the evil spirit picked up her victim and put him in a large tin box, where there were eleven other knights packed together without their heads, like sardines, who all rose and began to...' 'Dance a hornpipe,' cut in Fred, as Jo paused for breath, 'and, as they danced, the rubbishy old castle turned to a man-of-war in full sail.
-- A smart shower at eleven had evidently quenched the enthusiasm of the young ladies who were to arrive at twelve, for nobody came, and at two the exhausted family sat down in a blaze of sunshine to consume the per-ishable portions of the feast, that nothing might be lost.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage, as they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or brig, confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only); after listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o'clock, I went up stairs to go to bed, feeling quite sure by this time Queequeg must certainly have brought his Ramadan to a termination.
-- Say he stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his seventy breaths over again, to a minute.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
-- But, then, the thought darted across his mind that it was barely eleven o'clock; and that many people were still in the streets: of whom surely some might be found to give credence to his tale.
-- "I was so struck all of a heap, that you might have fractured my skull with a toothpick," says the poor man; "but we're sure to have him; for between ten and eleven o'clock at night he passed again."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it was settled that we should all be there by eleven o'clock.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was now furnished with roots and corn, such as it was, and water; and leaving my friendly negroes, I made forward for about eleven days more, without offering to go near the shore, till I saw the land run out a great length into the sea, at about the distance of four or five leagues before me; and the sea being very calm, I kept a large offing to make this point.
-- About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of lon-gitude difference west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; and began to consult with me what course he should take, for the ship was leaky, and very much disabled, and he was going di-rectly back to the coast of Brazil.
-- In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship's side; and getting all into her, let go, and com-mitted ourselves, being eleven in number, to God's mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated consid-erably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called DEN WILD ZEE, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.
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