I find that, classified altogether, there are seventeen reasons advanced in Scotland for taking whiskey. They run as follows: Reason one, because it is raining; Two, because it is not raining; Three, because you are just going out into the weather; Four, because you have just come in from the weather; Five; no, I forget the ones that come after that. But I remember that reason number seventeen is "because it canna do ye any harm." On the whole, reason seventeen is the best.英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
The servant advanced to investigate the matter. The numbers possessed by the three visitors, instead of being Fifteen, Sixteen and Seventeen, proved to be Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen. Turning to the stranger who had arrived the last, the servant said:英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
The weighing began, but halted. "Of course, at seventeen dollars," Porportuk had said to Tommy, as he adjusted the scales. "At sixteen dollars," El-Soo said sharply. "It is the custom of all the land to reckon gold at seventeen dollars for each ounce," Porportuk replied. "And this is a business transaction."
El-Soo laughed. "It is a new custom," she said. "It began this spring. Last year, and the years before, it was sixteen dollars an ounce.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》
-- ALCHYMICAL WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. -- DE LISLE. -- ALBERT ALUYS. -- COUNT DE ST. GERMAINS. -- CAGLIOSTRO. -- PRESENT STATE OF THE SCIENCE. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the search for the philosopher's stone was continued by thousands of the enthusiastic and the credulous; but a great change was introduced during this period.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-3》
Jane seemed much less impressed than William, seventeen being a long way from ten, though, of course, to seventeen itself hardly any information could be imagined as more interesting than that conveyed by the words of the aged Mr. Genesis. The impression made upon William was obviously profound and favorable.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
``Well, because! I KIND of thought he must be married, or anyways somep'm, when he talked to Mr. Genesis this mornin'. He said he knew how some people got married in Pennsylvania an' India, an' he said they were only seven or eight years old. He said so, an' I heard him; an' he said there were eleven people married that were only seventeen, an' this boy in Iowa got a full beard an' got married, too. An' he said Mr. Genesis was only sixteen when HE was married. He talked all about gettin' married when you're seventeen years old, an' he said how people thought it was the best thing could happen.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
Once you sign that, I've got seventeen more crates scheduled to come to you after the holiday.美剧 · 《Billions》
- Five hundred and seventeen boxes. - Oh, my God. How did you do that?美剧 · 《Friends》