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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not fifteen farthings a day can she earn, if she is respectable and has no special tal-ent and that without putting her work down for an instant!
-- The fifteen roubles I sent you four months ago I borrowed, as you know, on security of my pension, from Vassily Ivanovitch Vahrushin a merchant of this town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in thenewspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
-- Walking along the Strand, afterwards, andobserving a hard mottled substance in the window of a ham andbeef shop, which resembled marble, but was labelled 'MockTurtle,' I went in and bought a slab of it, which I have since seenreason to believe would have sufficed for fifteen people.
-- After a careful consideration of these, and anelaborate estimate of his resources, he had come to the conclusionto select that sum which represented the amount with compoundinterest to two years, fifteen calendar months, and fourteen days,from that date.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To each of the two chief openings on opposite sides a winding road ascended, and the level green space of ten or fifteen acres enclosed by the bank was the site of the fair.
-- Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a characteristic trait of his generously to pay fifteen francs a month for the cup of coffee with a dash of brandy in it, which he took after dinner.
-- In the meantime he had fifteen months in which to navigate the ocean of Paris, to spread the nets and set the lines that would bring him a protectress and a fortune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mother was only fifteen when she married you, and I'm sixteen," said Scarlett, her voice muffled.
-- Fifteen is too young to know much about love."
-- If she was only fifteen years old, shewas nevertheless ready for the responsibilities of the mistress of a plantation.
-- Mr. Calvert was standing close by the side of his Yankee wife,who even after fifteen years in Georgia never seemed to quite belong anywhere.
-- Fifteen years old!Oh, Scarlett, it would be Heaven tohave a son like that!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 34 Grimms' Fairy Tales It happened that, on the very day she was fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were employed to draw me towards the metropolis, which, as I said, was half a mile distant.
-- I left fifteen hundred pounds with my wife, and fixed her in a good house at Redriff.
-- In six days I found a vessel ready to carry me to Japan, and spent fifteen days in the voyage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a child now, of fifteen or sixteen; but at no distant day would seem to become a woman all at once.
-- That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.
-- They wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears, the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows, the lives and deaths of common men and women!They sometimes, after fifteen hours' work, sat down to read mere fables about men and women, more or less like themselves, and about children, more or less like their own.
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
-- Mr. Bounderby had taken possession of a house and grounds, about fifteen miles from the town, and accessible within a mile or two, by a railway striding on many arches over a wild country, undermined by deserted coal-shafts, and spotted at night by fires and black shapes of stationary engines at pits' mouths.
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