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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He measured more than fifteen feet, and his powerful wings bore him along with scarcely the slightest effort, for it is the prerogative of large birds to fly with calm majesty, while insects have to beat their wings a thousand times a second.
-- From time to time another shot had to be fired, notwithstanding the fire, to keep off the howling pack, and in the course of an hour fifteen dead animals lay stretched on the prairie.
-- Next day, though still fifteen miles distant, the proximity of the ocean was sensibly felt.
-- "I don't think I am far out," continued Ayrton, "in judging her speed at fifteen knots.
-- For fifteen years the colony was part of New South Wales, and recognized Sydney as the capital; but in 1851, she was declared independent, and took the name of Victoria."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fifteen years people will say, 'Look, that's Ivolgin, the king of the Jews!'
-- 'At Ekshaisk (a little town fifteen miles off) there's arich old merchant, who keeps a lot of canaries, has no chil-dren, and he and his wife are devoted to flowers.
-- I gave him a tip of fifteen roubles, and told him to get the carriage ready at once.
-- His claim for the charity he desired seemed based on the fact that in the days of his prosperity he had given away as much as fifteen roubles at a time.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruit-ful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that al-though there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was prob-able they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
-- Indeed, I looked back with some horror upon the thoughts of what my condition would have been if I had chopped upon them and been discovered be-fore that; when, naked and unarmed, except with one gun, and that loaded often only with small shot, I walked every-where, peeping and peering about the island, to see what I could get; what a surprise should I have been in if, when I discovered the print of a man's foot, I had, instead of that, seen fifteen or twenty savages, and found them pursuing me, and by the swiftness of their running no possibility of my escaping them!The thoughts of this sometimes sank my very soul within me, and distressed my mind so much that I could not soon recover it, to think what I should have done, and how I should not only have been unable to resist them, but even should not have had presence of mind enough to do what I might have done; much less what now, after so much consideration and preparation, I might be able to do.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds at once.
-- But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be completely taken in."
-- "Aye, aye, the parsonage is but a small one," said she, after the first ebullition of surprise and satisfaction was over, "and very likely MAY be out of repair; but to hear a man apologising, as I thought, for a house that to my knowledge has five sitting rooms on the ground-floor, and I think the housekeeper told me could make up fifteen beds! and to you too, that had been used to live in Barton cottage! It seems quite ridiculous.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No deep, sinister soul with ulterior motives could have given her fifteen cents under the guise of friendship.
-- The aroused manager whistled merrily for a good four miles to his office an old melody that he had not recalled for fifteen years.
-- Even as he thought, the last fifteen minutes passed away and it was five.
-- Also, he had been wont to pay fifteen cents for a shave, and a tip of ten cents.
-- "I paid for some coal this morning, and that took all but ten or fifteen cents."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches a solid, level floor.
-- 'If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?'
-- Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o'clock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents' worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lift-ed a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along.
-- I kept quiet, with my ears cocked, about fifteen minutes, I reckon.
-- It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.
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