fifteen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. 十五pron. /a. 十五(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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There's another fellow,' muttered Scrooge; who over-heard him: 'my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
-- Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is fifteen years since we since I came last from France.'
-- 'But I would hold a pretty wager, sir, that a House like Tellson and Company was flourishing, a matter of fifty, not to speak of fifteen years ago?'
-- Next day, fifteen prisoners were put to the bar before Charles Darnay's name was called.
-- All the fifteen were condemned, 402 A tale of two citiesand the trials of the whole occupied an hour and a half.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That they were only sowing the clover on fifteen acres, not on all the forty-five, was still more annoying to him.
-- "We positively must have another fifteen laborers.
-- They were standing now about fifteen paces from one another.
-- He wouldn't look at a bargain that gave him ten, fifteen per cent profit, but holds back to buy a rouble's worth for twenty kopecks."
-- Chapter 621 In the middle of July the elder of the village on Levin's sister's estate, about fifteen miles from Pokrovskoe, came to Levin to report on how things were going there and on the hay.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
-- But this delay, as it was foreseen, did not affect Phileas Fogg's programme; besides, the Mongolia, instead of reaching Aden on the morning of the 15th, when she was due, arrived there on the evening of the 14th, a gain of fifteen hours.
-- The train stopped, at eight o'clock, in the midst of a glade some fifteen miles beyond Rothal, where there were several bungalows, and workmen's cabins.
-- Yet the offer was an alluring one, for, supposing it took the elephant fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no less than six hundred pounds sterling.
-- Mr. Fogg offered first twelve hundred, then fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, two thousand pounds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The University of Winnemac is at Mohalis, fifteen miles from Zenith.
-- Zenith, with its saloons, was fifteen miles from Mohalis and the University of Winnemac; half an hour by the huge, roaring, steel interurban trolleys, and to Zenith the medical students went for their forays.
-- I'll rent it to you, furniture and the whole shooting-match, for fifteen dollars a month, if you'll pay me one year in advance.
-- Mighty rarely you get small-pox in summer," he chuckled, while Martin raged up and down the two counties, proclaiming the scourge, imploring everyone to be vaccinated, thundering, "There's going to be all hell let loose here in ten or fifteen days!"
-- The salary would be twenty-five hundred dollars a year--against the fifteen or sixteen hundred Martin was making in Wheatsylvania.
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：
-- 'Here, sir: as we say ten copecks the rouble a month, so I must take fifteen copecks from a rouble and a half for the month in advance.
-- So I must give you a rouble and fifteen copecks for the watch.
-- 'What!only a rouble and fifteen copecks now!'
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