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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His audience consisted of a youth of about fifteen years of age with a clever face, who had a book in his hand, though he was not reading; a young lady of twenty, in deep mourn-ing, stood near him with an infant in her arms; another girl of thirteen, also in black, was laughing loudly, her mouth wide open; and on the sofa lay a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He clapped his hands, and forthwith they went off with that hopping run of theirs, fifteen or twenty of them I should think, up the beach.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
-- Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoul-ders, and long, wicked dog teeth.
-- Little Toomai lay back and slept all through the long af-ternoon and into the twilight, and while he slept Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa followed the track of the two el-ephants for fifteen miles across the hills.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- After examining the piece with an intelligent eye, and opening and shutting the pan some ten or fifteen times, and trying sundry other equally important experi-ments on the lock, he turned to the boy and demanded with great manifestations of kindness, if he was hurt.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, I had not seen him for fifteen years, and it was nine since he died.
-- For all I know, this picture may still adorn the parlour of the tumbledown little house somewhere near the Quai de la Joliette, and I suppose it could now be sold for fifteen hundred pounds.
-- "I was not fifteen when my father found that I had a lover," she said.
-- "Ah, I wish I were fifteen again."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft at the beginning of the year had gone to Richmond on business, with a young boy of fifteen from New Jersey, son of a former captain, an orphan, whom he loved as if he had been his own child.
-- The lines were made of fine creepers, fastened one to the other, of the length of fifteen or twenty feet.
-- The first distance was fifteen feet between the stick and the place where the pole was thrust into the sand.
-- "The oyster contains very little nitrogen, and if a man lived exclusively on them, he would have to eat not less than fifteen to sixteen dozen a day."
-- Now the sun, in its apparent movement round the earth, traverses one degree in four minutes, or fifteen degrees an hour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before she could stoop to pick it up, one young lady of about fifteen or sixteen, who had been standing a little apart from the others, as though she had no recognised place among them, sprang forward and put it in her hand.
-- CHAPTER 38Kit for it happens at this juncture, not only that we have breathing time to follow his fortunes, but that the necessities of these adventures so adapt themselves to our ease and inclination as to call upon us imperatively to pursue the track we most desire to take Kit, while the matters treated of in the last fifteen chapters were yet in progress, was, as the reader may suppose, gradually familiarising himself more and more with Mr and Mrs Garland, Mr Abel, the pony, and Barbara, and gradually coming to consider them one and all as his particular private friends, and Abel Cottage, Finchley, as his own proper home.
-- This was a little old gentleman, who lived in the parsonage-house, and had resided there (so they learnt soon afterwards) ever since the death of the clergyman's wife, which had happened fifteen years before.
-- So well, indeed, was his modest and retiring temper understood by those with whom he had to deal, and so jealous were they of his absence, that they required a kind of friendly bond to be entered into by two substantial housekeepers, in the sum of fifteen hundred pounds a-piece, before they would suffer him to quit their hospitable roof doubting, it appeared, that he would return, if once let loose, on any other terms.
-- Mr Brass, struck with the humour of this jest, and carrying out its spirit to the utmost, sought from his wide connection a pair of friends whose joint possessions fell some halfpence short of fifteen pence, and proffered them as bail for that was the merry word agreed upon both sides.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, he needed no money, and wanted not a third part what his mother gave him, disclaimed title to his father's land, distributing it among the peasants; now, the fifteen hundred rubles' monthly allowance he received from his mother did not suffice for his needs, and he often made it the cause of unpleasant conversation with her.
-- He gave a ruble to a blind beggar; the servants received as tips fifteen rubles, and when Sophia Ivanovna's lap-dog, Suzette, hurt her leg so that it bled, he volunteered to bandage it, and without a moment's consideration tore his fine linen handkerchief (Sophia Ivanovna knew that those handkerchiefs were worth fifteen rubles a dozen) and made bandages of it for the dog.
-- The secretary has just told me that the law cited by the prosecutor provides fifteen years' hard labor."
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