Twenty

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one.

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units .

手打:洛伊斯

• Odessa is about twenty hours' run from Sebastopol, and is the most northerly port in the Black Sea. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The marriage is fixed for the twenty-second of December. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was twice--twenty times as fine; not one quarter as comfortable. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She is four-and-twenty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I have only one pocket-handkerchief, he added, but if I had twenty, I would offer you each one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Twenty-nine, I see. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I should have been fond enough of you even to go that length, and you would have accepted my invitation--you would, sir, twenty years ago! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It might have been twenty thousand pound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• If you change once, why not twenty times? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When he got home, he gave four of the twenties to his mother, asking her to keep them for him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Hillyer was quite a young man, then in his twenties, and very brilliant. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There aren't any four hundred twenties in the mountains, I said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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