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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42脗掳 15' N. lat.
-- What passes in those remote depths what beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the waters what is the organisation of these animals, we can scarcely conjecture.
-- The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one of these defensive weapons, two yards and a quarter in length, and fifteen inches in diameter at the base.
-- This boy was thirty years old, and his age to that of his master as fifteen to twenty.
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We got rid of all gloom in the excitement of the exercise, and our pleasure was increased by the arrival of the Gimmerton band, mustering fifteen strong: a trumpet, a trombone, clarionets, bassoons, French horns, and a bass viol, besides singers.
-- At fifteen she was the queen of the country side; she had no peer; and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature!I own I did not like her, after infancy was past; and I vexed her frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance: she never took an aversion to me, though.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were fifteen inmates of this cell, twelve women and three children.
-- There were about fifteen spectators present, among whom were a young woman in a pince-nez, and a gray- haired lady.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Fifteen Men' were his only song, mates; and I tell you true, I never rightly liked to hear it since.
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