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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is now the residence of the keeper of the Strait of the Sound, and through that Sound more than fifteen thousand vessels of all nations pass every year.
-- The fifteen hundred feet which remained to be accomplished took us at least five hours.
-- "Scarcely fifteen degrees by Reaumur, which is only an increase of nine since our departure."
-- It was quite natural that I should expect to find these signs, for during the Silurian period the seas contained no fewer than fifteen hundred different animal and vegetable species.
-- "At the place where we now are, under the latitude of Iceland, the terrestrial depth is about fifteen hundred and eighty-three leagues."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Keeps her room when not actually bedridden, and hasn't been out of it fifteen times in as many years, Arthur.'
-- There was a fire in the grate, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.
-- There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.
-- There was a little mound of damped ashes on the top of the fire, and another little mound swept together under the grate, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.
-- There was a smell of black dye in the airless room, which the fire had been drawing out of the crape and stuff of the widow's dress for fifteen months, and out of the bier-like sofa for fifteen years.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she had been so simply taught that there was no nonsense in her head, and at fifteen she was as innocent and frank as any child.
-- During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive little girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot.
-- The fifteen minutes seemed an hour, but they came to an end at last, and the word 'Recess!'
-- Fifteen minutes after Aunt March's departure, Jo came softly downstairs, paused an instant at the parlor door, and hearing no sound within, nodded and smiled with a satis-fied expression, saying to herself, 'She has seen him away as we planned, and that affair is settled.
-- During the next fifteen minutes she looked more like a rose than ever, for everyone availed themselves of their privileges to the fullest extent, from Mr. Laurence to old Hannah, who, adorned with a headdress fearfully and wonderfully made, fell upon her in the hall, crying with a sob and a chuck-le, 'Bless you, deary, a hundred times!The cake ain't hurt a mite, and everything looks lovely.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
-- He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the waist.
-- The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.
-- In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
-- Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is a handsome girl, about fifteen or sixteen, and, I understand, highly accomplished.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was positively against that; and looking over the charts of the sea-coast of America with him, we concluded there was no inhabited country for us to have recourse to till we came within the circle of the Caribbee Islands, and there-fore resolved to stand away for Barbadoes; which, by keeping off at sea, to avoid the indraft of the Bay or Gulf of Mexico, we might easily perform, as we hoped, in about fifteen days' sail; whereas we could not possibly make our voyage to the coast of Africa without some assistance both to our ship and to ourselves.
-- at a very great dis-tance; by my guess it could not be less than fifteen or twenty leagues off.
-- One of these, which was the driest and largest, and had a door out beyond my wall or fortification - that is to say, beyond where my wall joined to the rock - was all filled up with the large earthen pots of which I have given an account, and with fourteen or fifteen great baskets, which would hold five or six bushels each, where I laid up my stores of provisions, especially my corn, some in the ear, cut off short from the straw, and the other rubbed out with my hand.
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